Freedom Of Expression

ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON RTI IS COMPLETED

by Pradeep Dwivedi

Privatising the public interest: conflicts and compromises in Norwegian media politics 1980-1993

by Eli Skogerbø

AS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DE PROMOÇÃO DO DIREITO HUMANO À DIFUSÃO DA MANIFESTAÇÃO CULTURAL NO BRASIL: uma apreciação teórica dos principais modelos de incentivo e fomento à cultura

by Francisco Mata Machado Tavares (Franck)

Tutela dell'altrui onore e reputazione nell'esercizio della libertà di critica storica e scientifica

by alessandro mantelero

published in "Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile", 2011, pp. 575-586, Giuffrè Editore

personality rights - reputation - freedom of speech - historical criticism - scientific criticism

The paper... more personality rights - reputation - freedom of speech - historical criticism - scientific criticism

The paper concerns the freedom of speech in historical and scientific works and its relationship with reputation when the opinions expressed could be felt as offensive by people to which criticism are referred.

Il saggio, anche alla luce degli orientamenti maturati nella giurisprudenza, si sofferma sulle peculiari connotazioni che la libertà di espressione viene ad assumere ove assuma le forme della critica scientifica e storiografica

Book Review: Erik Bleich. The Freedom to Be Racist? How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

by Mahama Tawat

Working paper. Available upon request.

Freedom of expression, hate speech, and models of personhood in Hungarian political discourse

by David Boromisza-Habashi

Boromisza-Habashi, D. (2007). Freedom of expression, hate speech, and models of personhood in Hungarian political discourse. Communication Law Review, 7, 54-74.

In this ethnography of communication study I will explore how the cultural concepts “freedom of expression/opinion”... more In this ethnography of communication study I will explore how the cultural concepts “freedom of expression/opinion” (véleménynyilvánítás szabadsága) and “hate speech” (gyűlöletbeszéd) function in a specific cultural discursive system, Hungarian political discourse. I will accomplish this goal through the analysis of situated interaction at a series of parliamentary committee meetings. The ethnographic data under consideration consists of instances in which members of the Hungarian Parliament discussed the implications of a bill proposing changes to the criminal code regarding hate speech. I will show that the freedom of expression as a cultural concept is inextricably linked with the concept of “the violation of human dignity” in situated political discourse. This linkage, however, becomes the site of conflict as it is interpreted in competing ways by those who see human dignity as the possession of persons-as-individuals and those who assign it to persons-as-members-of-communities. These models of personhood give rise to conflicting communal norms, and the norms animate conflicting proposals for sanctioning hate speech. My analysis joins a small but increasing body of field-level studies of the freedom of expression that approach the concept of free expression as a cultural construct.

Donaldson v United Kingdom: No Right for Prisoners to Wear Easter Lilies

by Neil Graffin

This article is a discussion of the Donaldson v United Kingdom case which was ruled inadmissible by the European Court... more This article is a discussion of the Donaldson v United Kingdom case which was ruled inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights in 2011. This case concerned a prisoner in Northern Ireland who was ordered to remove an Easter lily, a symbol commemorating Irish Republican combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising, from his clothing.

This case illustrates the willingness of the European Court to grant a margin of appreciation to Contracting States to decide on the display of contentious symbols. This article argues that the European Court were correct in doing this, but attests that consideration could have been given, when making their decision, to the effect of the display of other symbols in Northern Ireland.

Trademark parody and Freedom of expression – Shall we dance? (full version)

by Anna Balatska

Master Thesis,  Examensarbete för masterexamen (Två år)

Terrorism, Security, and Liberty

by Eilidh Douglas

Dissertation written for the course of Advanced Higher Modern Studies whilst the author was a student at Carrick Academy, 2009.

Concentrating specifically on terrorism in the United Kingdom, this dissertation seeks not to answer the question of... more Concentrating specifically on terrorism in the United Kingdom, this dissertation seeks not to answer the question of security versus liberty, but to negate it. Using the judicial tests of necessity and proportionality, it assesses the case for the introduction of the recent counter-terrorism legislation, with comparison to existing criminal laws. It then turns to the treatment of terrorist suspects, to examine whether certain rights really are inalienable and universal, or whether exceptional circumstances determine differing prerogative. Finally, there is an examination of the everyday freedoms that terrorism legislation restricts, and an assessment of what extent the counter-terrorism measures themselves could pose a threat to democracy.

On ‘Shoot the Boer’, hate speech and the banning of struggle songs

by Pierre Vos

Published in "Pulp Fictions" June 2010

This paper deals with hate speech and provides arguments against the exapnsive interpretation of hate speech... more This paper deals with hate speech and provides arguments against the exapnsive interpretation of hate speech provisions in the South African Equality Legislation.

On ‘Shoot the Boer’, hate speech and the banning of struggle songs

by Pierre Vos

Published in "Pulp Fictions" June 2010

This paper deals with hate speech and provides arguments against the exapnsive interpretation of hate speech... more This paper deals with hate speech and provides arguments against the exapnsive interpretation of hate speech provisions in the South African Equality Legislation.

Speech, media and ethics: the limits of free expression: critical studies on freedom of expression, freedom of the press and the public's right to know

by Raphael Cohen-almagor

La libertà di espressione negli Stati Uniti d'America

by Riccardo de Caria

in Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Pubblico, 2010, f. 2, 607-612 (Giuffrè, Milano)

L’articolo costituisce un resoconto della John E. Sullivan Lecture 2009, tenuta dall’illustre costituzionalista... more L’articolo costituisce un resoconto della John E. Sullivan Lecture 2009, tenuta dall’illustre costituzionalista americano Akhil Reed Amar. In questa lezione, il Professor Amar ha presentato un nuovo possibile argomento a sostegno della libertà di parola nell’ordinamento americano, libertà che com’è noto ha un ruolo assolutamente centrale nella costruzione di quel sistema giuridico. Amar ha definito questo argomento “the argument from enactment”, cioè derivato dal processo di approvazione stesso della Costituzione americana.
L’articolo ripercorre fedelmente il testo della lezione, con l’aggiunta di alcuni commenti e riflessioni ritenute utili per il lettore italiano. Dopo l’introduzione (1.), vengono esaminati gli argomenti tradizionali elaborati dalla dottrina costituzionale americana a fondamento della libertà di espressione, ovvero: a) l’analisi della giurisprudenza; b) la struttura del testo costituzionale; c) la sua storia; d) il dato testuale (2.).
Successivamente, viene presentata e argomentata la tesi sostenuta dal Professor Amar, ovvero che è necessario, come suggeriva lo stesso Madison, guardare al processo di approvazione della Costituzione americana: durante questo processo, che condusse infine alla protezione della libertà di parola nel Primo Emendamento, fu già esercitata una amplissima e quasi illimitata libertà di parola (3.), al punto che si può concludere che la pratica della libertà di espressione sia stata precedente al suo riconoscimento espresso nel testo costituzionale (4.).

Governing Through Harm to Promote Liberal Values: The Canadian Approach to Obscenity and Indecency Following R. v. Labaye

by Kirsten Kramar

Co-authored with Richard Jochelson

Abstract. This paper traces the logics underpinning obscenity and indecency law in Canada from R. v. Hicklin (1868) to... more Abstract. This paper traces the logics underpinning obscenity and indecency law in Canada from R. v. Hicklin (1868) to the present day in R. v. Labaye (2005) to discuss the emergence of a precautionary principle in the law governing sexually explicit materials and conduct. The most recent Supreme Court decision on obscenity and indecency law (R. v. Labaye 2005) is interesting for its appropriation of a security inspired logic of pre-emption (or precautionary governance) into the heart of obscenity and indecency law. The replacement of the community standards of tolerance test for the undue exploitation of harm with a new, so-called objective test for risk of harm, obviates the need for empirical evidence of harm to justify the exercise of state power. Today, risk of harm becomes a stronger element within the rubric of obscenity and indecency law thus enabling criminalization on the basis of a judge’s perception of the imagined negative effects of sexual conduct and materials on constitutional values such as liberty and equality.
Key Words: Labaye, harm, risk, obscenity, indecency, governmentality, precautionary
principle, security politics, liberty, equality.

The Concept of a Right to Privacy

by Eoin Carolan

First chapter of co-authored booked with Prof. Hilary Delany

Discusses how the right to privacy can be defined, justified and conceptualised. Examines different theories of... more Discusses how the right to privacy can be defined, justified and conceptualised. Examines different theories of privacy. Explores the relationship between privacy and free speech/freedom of expression. Also considers the relationship and the differences between individual free speech and the media's freedom of expression.

The Body of Free Speech: Risk and the Rhetorical Practice of Parrhesia

by Stuart Murray

Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self, vol. 2, no. 2 (2006): 59-72

Human Rights and Qualitative Health Inquiry: On Biofascism and the Importance of Parrhesia

by Stuart Murray

co-authored with G. Rail & D. Holmes, in Qualitative Inquiry and Human Rights, eds. N.K. Denzin & M.D. Giardina (Left Coast Press, 2010), 218–41

Literary Freedom as a Cultural Right: a Capabilities Approach to Freedom of Expression and Literary Hate Speech

by Heather McRobie

draft only

Papua a media black spot

by David Robie

Perrottet, A., and Robie, D. (2011, October 24). Papua a media black spot. New Matilda.com [Media article based on short version of the Pacific Journalism Review Pacific Media Freedom Report 2011: A status report] http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/research/pacific-media-freedom-2011-status-report

The violence in West Papua this week has played out against a background of limited media freedom there and across the... more The violence in West Papua this week has played out against a background of limited media freedom there and across the region, write the authors of a new report on media freedom in the Pacific.

Libertà di espressione e reati di opinione

by alessandro spena

Published in Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale, 2007(2/3), pp. 689-738