Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?

Informationen zum Autor Larry Alexander is Warren Distinguished Professor, University of San Diego School of Law. Klappentext A sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right. Zusammenfassung In this provocative book! Alexander offers a sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right. He examines the various contexts in which a right to freedom of expression might be asserted and concludes that such a right cannot be supported in any of these contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Defining Human Rights and Delimiting the Scope of Freedom of Expression: 1. Preliminaries: what is a human right, and what activities implicate freedom of expression?; 2. Freedom of expression and regulations that affect messages but are not enacted for that reason; 3. The puzzles of governmental purpose; Part II. The Core of Freedom of Expression: Government Regulations and Acts Taken To Affect Messages: 4. The core of freedom of expression: regulations of conduct for the purpose of affecting messages received; 5. Track three: Government speech and subsidies of speech; 6. Miscellaneous regulations of expression; Part III. Theoretical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression: 7. General justifying theories of freedom of expression; 8. The paradoxes of liberalism and the failure of theories justifying a right of freedom of expression; Epilogue: 9. Muddling through: freedom of expression in the absence of a human right.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Larry Alexander, Larry (University of San Diego) Alexander
• Mitarbeit: Jules L. Coleman (Herausgeber), Gerald Postema (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 06.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521822930
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82293-0
• Seiten: 216
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Sonstiges; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung