Ioanna Tourkochoriti

Freedom of Expression (eBook, ePUB)

The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two legal systems founded from similar Enlightenment philosophical and political values use state coercion differently to regulate a core liberty: the freedom of expression. This comparative study of France and the United States proposes a novel theory of how the limits of freedom of expression are informed by different revolutionary experiences and constitutional and political arrangements. Ioanna Tourkochoriti argues that the different ways freedom of expression is balanced against other values in France and the United States can be understood in reference to the role of the government and the understanding of republicanism and liberty. This understanding affects how jurists define the content and the limits of a liberty and strike a balance between liberties in conflict. Exploring both the legal traditions of the two countries, this study sheds new light on the broader historical, social and philosophical contexts in which jurists operate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009051217
• Artikelnr.: 66176792

Autorenporträt

Ioanna Tourkochoriti teaches at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has previously held a lectureship at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, a Wertheim Fellowship at Harvard Law School, and fellowships with other universities in North America and the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: speech, privacy and dignity in France and the United
States; 2. Antiquity, modernity, and historical imaginaries on the role of
the government; 3. The underlying ex ante understanding of liberty; 4. The
moralizing rational republic versus the state arbitrator of the free play
of interests; 5. Foundation of the rights of man on the rights of the
citizen versus foundation of the rights of the citizen on the rights of
man; 6. Conclusion.