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Look Inside Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?

Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?

Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law

Author: Larry Alexander, University of San Diego

Date Published: May 2005
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521529846

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Larry Alexander offers a skeptical 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 it cannot be supported in any of these contexts. Alexander argues that the legal protection affording freedom of expression is definitely of value, although the form such protection takes will vary with historical and cultural circumstances--and, ultimately, is not a matter of human rights.
- One of the first books to take a sceptical view of freedom of expression as a human right
- Comprehensive treatment of freedom of expression
- Alexander is a well-respected legal theorist
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Others claim it is necessary for self-actualization, the promotion of truth, or the exchange of ideas. Alexander surprisingly contends, in this tightly argued book, that freedom of expression is not a human right.
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- Date Published: May 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521529846
- length: 218 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: Available
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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.
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- Theory and practice of toleration
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Larry Alexander, University of San Diego
Larry Alexander is Warren Distinguished Professor, University of San Diego School of Law.