This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985. There have been many important developments since the first edition including the impact of the European Human Rights Convention. Social and cultural changes mean that free speech claims are being made in novel contexts. Barendt considers the meaning and scope of freedom of speech and examines the varied approaches of different legal systems and constitutional traditions to balancing free speech and freedom of the press against rights to reputation and privacy, and to copyright.
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a deeply satisfying first chapter entitled "Why protect free speech?", which should be read by anyone who thinks J. S. Mill said everything that needed to be said on the topic...This admirable volume is a fully revised and updated edition of the major work published in 1985.
`It is one of the many virtues of this work that the various aspects of freedom of speech are kept constantly in play...This book should be on the reading list of any student of the ideologies and manners of western liberal democracies.' David Bentley (Associate Fellow in International Law at Chatham House) The World Today
`It is one of the many virtues of this work that the various aspects of freedom of speech are kept constantly in play...This book should be on the reading list of any student of the ideologies and manners of western liberal democracies.' David Bentley (Associate Fellow in International Law at Chatham House) The World Today
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Eric Barendt is Goodman Professor of Media Law at University College London.
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This is an impressive study, but it should be allowed to go out of print. Barendt has done a second edition (2005), which supersedes this one.
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Written constitutions and bills of rights invariably protect freedom of speech as one of the fundamental liberties guaranteed against state suppression or regulation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offensiveness principle, speech scrutiny, open justice principle, argument from democracy, extreme hate speech, defamatory allegations, group libel laws, argument from truth, speech coverage, free speech principle, qualified privilege defence, hate speech laws, free political speech, free speech law, free speech jurisprudence, free speech interests, free speech considerations, prior restraint doctrine, administrative censorship, hatred offence, public order grounds, racist hate speech, public order legislation, free speech arguments, undesirable secondary effects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Amendment, United States, New York, Court of Appeal, European Court, Law Rev, United Kingdom, German Constitutional Court, High Court, European Human Rights Court, Divisional Court, Williams Committee, New Zealand, European Convention, Contempt of Court Act, Strasbourg Court, Sunday Times, Times Newspapers, Law Commission, Virginia Pharmacy, Central Hudson, District Court, Prime Minister, Human Rights Act, Lord Scarman New!
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Written constitutions and bills of rights invariably protect freedom of speech as one of the fundamental liberties guaranteed against state suppression or regulation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offensiveness principle, speech scrutiny, open justice principle, argument from democracy, extreme hate speech, defamatory allegations, group libel laws, argument from truth, speech coverage, free speech principle, qualified privilege defence, hate speech laws, free political speech, free speech law, free speech jurisprudence, free speech interests, free speech considerations, prior restraint doctrine, administrative censorship, hatred offence, public order grounds, racist hate speech, public order legislation, free speech arguments, undesirable secondary effects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Amendment, United States, New York, Court of Appeal, European Court, Law Rev, United Kingdom, German Constitutional Court, High Court, European Human Rights Court, Divisional Court, Williams Committee, New Zealand, European Convention, Contempt of Court Act, Strasbourg Court, Sunday Times, Times Newspapers, Law Commission, Virginia Pharmacy, Central Hudson, District Court, Prime Minister, Human Rights Act, Lord Scarman New!
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