Ian Cram

Contested Words

Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. For some, judicial intervention has tended to trivialize and impoverish democratic politics. For others, judges are better understood as contributing to a healthy dialogue between the different spheres of the constitution. This book offers a contribution to on-going debates surrounding the judicial role in protecting human rights in western society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780754623656
• ISBN-10: 0754623653
• Artikelnr.: 21178652

Autorenporträt

Ian Cram is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for the Human Rights Research Unit in the School of Law at Leeds University, UK. He is the Programme Director for the LLM in International and European Human Rights Law. His research interests include public law, comparative law and human rights. He has published widely in these areas in leading academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: 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
Bibliography
Index.