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.
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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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In this provocative book, 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 such a right cannot be supported in any of these contexts. He argues that some legal protection of freedom of expression is surely valuable, though the form such protection will take will vary with historical and cultural circumstances and is not a matter of human right.
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impure liberal, evaluative neutrality, public employee speech, categorical subsidies, entire corpus juris, comprehensive normative theory, dialogic test, public forum analysis, illiberal groups, governmental speech, affecting messages, responsible audiences, message distortion, private speakers, content discrimination, message effects, supra note, government speech, viewpoint discrimination, burning objects, public fora, putative right, coercive imposition, expression grounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Track Two, Track Three, Track One, Larry Alexander, New York, Jed Rubenfeld, Stanley Fish, Frederick Schauer, Republican Party, University of Virginia, Eugene Volokh, European Convention, Jeremy Waldron, John Rawls, Board of Educ, Democratic Party, Edwin Baker, Kent Greenawalt, National Enquirer, New Jersey, Perry Educ, Perry Local, Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel New!
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impure liberal, evaluative neutrality, public employee speech, categorical subsidies, entire corpus juris, comprehensive normative theory, dialogic test, public forum analysis, illiberal groups, governmental speech, affecting messages, responsible audiences, message distortion, private speakers, content discrimination, message effects, supra note, government speech, viewpoint discrimination, burning objects, public fora, putative right, coercive imposition, expression grounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Track Two, Track Three, Track One, Larry Alexander, New York, Jed Rubenfeld, Stanley Fish, Frederick Schauer, Republican Party, University of Virginia, Eugene Volokh, European Convention, Jeremy Waldron, John Rawls, Board of Educ, Democratic Party, Edwin Baker, Kent Greenawalt, National Enquirer, New Jersey, Perry Educ, Perry Local, Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel New!
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- The First Amendment by Louis M. Seidman on 5 pages
- Tribe's American Constitutional Law, 3D (University Textbook Series) by Laurence H. Tribe on page 11, page 13, and page 82
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on page 5, page 32, and page 152
- Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era by Lee C. Bollinger on page 25, page 129, and page 187
- Communication & Evolution by Juergen Habermas on page 29, and page 159
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