Freedom of Speech in UK Law
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Political Culture, Flag Use and Freedom of Speech
Flag use generates passionate debates that fundamentally turn on questions of the appropriate extent and limits of freedom of speech. The national flag is a natural and forceful medium with which t...
- I Book Review: Freedom of Speech
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Freedom of Speech: USA vs Germany and Europe
Racist utterances are treated differently in American law on the one hand and in German or European law on the other hand. This difference in approach leads to problems when it comes to assessing r...
- I Book Review: Defamation and Freedom of Speech
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Political liberalism, free speech and public reason
In this paper, I critically assess John Rawls' repeated claim that the duty of civility is only a moral duty and should not be enforced by law. In the first part of the paper, I examine and reject ...... ... Freedom of speech, I claim, can be justified instead on the basisof Rawls political conception of the person and of the two moral powers. However,Rawls wide ... ...
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The 1689 Bill of Rights
Following the disastrous reign of James II, the Bill of Rights was introduced to curb future arbitrary behaviour by the Crown. Five of the thirteen Articles are still active and cases illustrating ...
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Assaulting our rights: how domestic violence laws curtail our fundamental freedoms
The Violence Against Women Act was enacted in the United States in 1994. Fifteen years later, it has become apparent that the law has given rise to numerous violations of fundamental civil rights. ...... ... These rights include freedom of speech, protection from governmental intrusion, due process, freedom ... ...
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Towards an Internal Hierarchy of Values in the EU Legal Order
This article compares American constitutional law and practice on the First Amendment freedom of speech vis-à-vis data privacy in the US to the right to freedom of expression vis-à-vis data privacy...... ... H IERARCH Y OF V ALUES I N THE EU LEGAL ORDER Balancing the Freedom of Speech and Data Privacy B P * ... ...
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When Would a State Crack Down on Fake News? Explaining Variation in the Governance of Fake News in Asia-Pacific
This article sets out to explain national variation in the governance of fake news; it asks, under what conditions would governments pursue securitization in order to address the threat of fake new...... ... ; the first pathway shows how non-democratic states without media freedom and which are relatively less affected by fake news instrumentalize the sue to restrict freedom of speech further; the second pathway shows how non-democratic states experiencing ... ...
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Protest Before and During a Pandemic
Liberal democracies have struggled recently with protecting freedom of speech and assembly during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an old, general problem in new, specific guise. In Australia, the Su...... ... democracies have struggled recently with protecting freedom of speech and assembly duringthe COVID-19 pandemic. This is an old, ... ...
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