Is there a right of freedom of expression? / Larry Alexander.

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Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy and law
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Defining human rights and delimiting the scope of freedom of expression
  • 1. Preliminaries : what is a human right, and what activities implicate freedom of expression?
  • 2. Freedom of expression and regulations that affect messages but are not enacted for that reason
  • 3. The puzzles of governmental purpose
  • Pt. 2. The core of freedom of expression : government regulations and acts taken to affect messages
  • 4. The core of freedom of expression : regulations of conduct for the purpose of affecting messages received
  • 5. Track three : government speech and subsidies of speech
  • 6. Miscellaneous regulations of expression
  • Pt. 3. Theoretical perspectives on freedom of expression
  • 7. General justifying theories of freedom of expression
  • 8. The paradoxes of liberalism and the failure of theories justifying a right of freedom of expression
  • 9. Muddling through : freedom of expression in the absence of a human right.