Contested words : legal restrictions on freedom of speech in liberal democracies /
"In modern liberal democracies rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. This book offers a contribution to on-going debates surrounding the judicial role in protecting fundamental human rights, focusing in particular on legislativ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2006.
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Colección: | Applied legal philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Current controversies in freedom of expression
- Rights-based judicial review, constitutional cultures and expressive freedom
- Political expression: political parties, voters and candidates
- Comparative constitutional issues arising from the regulation of election campaign finance
- Wounding words: the constitutional challenge posed by hate speech in modern liberal democracies
- Sexually explicit expression and the courts
- Advertising, autonomy and proportionality: constitutional arguments surrounding the regulation of commercial expression
- Conclusion: protecting expression as a constitutional value.