Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995-02-01
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1439105359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Freedom of speech is one of our greatest legal rights and Cass Sunstein is one of our greatest legal theorists. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to think seriously about the free speech issues facing this generation. -- Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor, Yale Law School This is an important book. Beautifully clear and carefully argued, Sunstein's contribution reaches well beyond the confines of academic debate. It will be of interest to any citizen concerned about freedom of speech and the current state of American democracy. -- Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology How can our constitutional protection of free speech serve to strengthen democracy? Cass Sunstein challenges conventional answers with a remarkable array of lucid arguments and legal examples. There is no better book on the subject. -- Amy Gutmann, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor, Princeton University
Author: Mona Elbahtimy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1108837565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an explanatory framework for the challenges facing the development of the international norm prohibiting hate speech.
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-06-08
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0674069919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech—except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. Causing offense—by depicting a religious leader as a terrorist in a newspaper cartoon, for example—is not the same as launching a libelous attack on a group’s dignity, according to Waldron, and it lies outside the reach of law. But defamation of a minority group, through hate speech, undermines a public good that can and should be protected: the basic assurance of inclusion in society for all members. A social environment polluted by anti-gay leaflets, Nazi banners, and burning crosses sends an implicit message to the targets of such hatred: your security is uncertain and you can expect to face humiliation and discrimination when you leave your home. Free-speech advocates boast of despising what racists say but defending to the death their right to say it. Waldron finds this emphasis on intellectual resilience misguided and points instead to the threat hate speech poses to the lives, dignity, and reputations of minority members. Finding support for his view among philosophers of the Enlightenment, Waldron asks us to move beyond knee-jerk American exceptionalism in our debates over the serious consequences of hateful speech.
Author: C. J. Rosenbaum
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692762226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analysis and summary of cases involving Amazon.com across the United States.
Author: Charles J. Glasser, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1118420497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An indispensable survival guide for anyone in the media industry and the lawyers who serve them Especially now, in an age of instant global access through digital media, it is vitally important that journalists, authors and publishers, as well as the lawyers who serve them, be fully up on the laws governing media, worldwide. The ultimate resource for all the media content providers and purveyors, this fully updated and expanded Third Edition of the critically-acclaimed handbook offers you instant access to relevant libel and privacy laws and important legal rulings in the Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. It clearly and concisely explains risks publishers should know about prior to publication, steps they can take in order to avoid legal conflicts, and legal defences available to them in the event of a claim. Offers nation-by-nation summaries of libel and privacy law written by local practitioners in an easy-to-use reference format Expanded to include coverage of important emerging territories--Mexico, Israel, and Argentina, et al--as well as the latest libel and privacy rulings Features new chapters on emerging media markets--including Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Jordan, and others--as well as valuable updates to the Middle East section Provides updates on all major media markets and nations, along with coverage of changes in libel laws in key jurisdictions, including Australia, the UK, Hungary and Germany
Author: Monore H. Freedman
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1995-05-30
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the issue of group defamation from a variety of perspectives.
Author: Thomas David Jones
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-27
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9004481672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his book Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations, Thomas David Jones presents a discussion and analysis of the laws governing group defamation and speech inciteful of racial hatred in Great Britain, Canada, India, Nigeria, and the United States. Although there exists no federal group defamation law in the United States, a few state legislatures have promulgated group defamation statutes, while a cause of action for group defamation has been recognized as justiciable in the decision law of other states. Mr Jones describes his theory as constitutional minimalism because he does not advocate the legal proscription of all derogatory hate speech. Only the sub-category of hate speech that fulfills the standard elements of proof found in common law defamation claim will be prosecuted criminally by the federal government. The author further asserts that a carefully and narrowly drafted federal criminal group defamation statute will pass constitutional muster without creating a conflict with First Amendment rights.
Author: Samuel Walker
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780803297517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a chronological history of the U.S. policy on hate speech, which in most other countries is prohibited