Contested words : legal restrictions on freedom of speech in liberal democracies / Ian Cram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cram, Ian.

Series:

Applied legal philosophy.

Applied legal philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of expression.

Freedom of speech.

Constitutional law--Philosophy.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. For some, judicial intervention has tended to trivialize and impoverish democratic politics. For others, judges are be

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Current Controversies in Freedom of Expression; 2 Rights-based Judicial Review, Constitutional Cultures and Expressive Freedom; 3 Political Expression: Political Parties, Voters and Candidates; 4 Comparative Constitutional Issues Arising from the Regulation of Election Campaign Finance; 5 Wounding Words: The Constitutional Challenge Posed by Hate Speech in Modern Liberal Democracies; 6 Sexually Explicit Expression and the Courts

7 Advertising, Autonomy and Proportionality: Constitutional Arguments Surrounding the Regulation of Commercial Expression8 Conclusion: Protecting Expression as a Constitutional Value; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57401-2

1-317-16030-4

1-317-16029-0

1-281-09663-6

9786611096632

0-7546-8031-2

9781315574011

OCLC:

437113535