Download or read book Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech written by Monore H. Freedman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the issue of group defamation from a variety of perspectives.
Download or read book Human Rights Group Defamation Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations written by Thomas David Jones and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Freedom of Speech or Defamation Expressing Yourself on the Web written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital communicationparticularly via social networking siteshas quickly become a dominant form of interaction in our society and worldwide. The instantaneous convenience of conversation and dialog with friends down the street or strangers halfway across the globe is a wondrous technological development and one with enormous potential for relationship-strengthening, idea-sharing, and community-building. Yet the anonymity of digital communication and self-expression also provides some users with a false sense of impunity. They feel encouraged to say things they wouldn't say in a face-to-face encounter. Some of these posts can be bullying; some can involve hate speech or defamation. Readers will walk the line that separates harsh but legitimate criticism, which is protected by free speech provisions of the Constitution, from defamation and other illegal forms of expression. They also wade into these troubled waters, sort through the major legal precedents, and are provided with some invaluable guidelines to follow when expressing themselves or communicating with others via the Internet.
Download or read book Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech written by James Naumburg Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Group Defamation written by Geoffrey R. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Freedom of Speech and Its Limits written by Wojciech Sadurski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In authoritarian states, the discourse on freedom of speech, conducted by those opposed to non-democratic governments, focuses on the core aspects of this freedom: on a right to criticize the government, a right to advocate theories arid ideologies contrary to government-imposed orthodoxy, a right to demand institutional reforms, changes in politics, resignation of the incompetent and the corrupt from positions of authority. The claims for freedom of speech focus on those exercises of freedom that are most fundamental and most beneficial to citizens - and which are denied to them by the government. But in a by-and large democratic polity, where these fundamental benefits of freedom of speech are generally enjoyed by the citizens, the public and scholarly discourse on freedom of speech hovers about the peripheries of that freedom; the focus is on its outer boundaries rather than at the central territory of freedom of speech. Those borderline cases, in which people who are otherwise genuinely committed to the core aspects of freedom of speech may sincerely disagree, include pornography, racist hate speech and religious bigoted expressions, defamation of politicians and of private persons, contempt of court, incitement to violence, disclosure of military or commercial secrets, advertising of merchandise such as alcohol or cigarettes or of services and entertainment such as gambling and prostitution.
Download or read book Group Defamation and Harm to Identity written by Pyeng Hwa Kang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law of group defamation is habitually confronted by objections on two fronts. First, in the tort of group defamation, the law requires that the member claiming injury is able to establish that the defamatory statement was "of and concerning" him personally, and thus that the prejudice was subjective and individualized by nature. Courts have traditionally refused to admit cause of action if the involved group was too large. The harm caused by such group-targeting expression is presumed to be somehow lessened by its generalized formulation, defaming the group as a whole as opposed to individual member(s). Therefore, it does not constitute sufficiently individualized harm to an identifying member of the group. Second, on a broader, constitutional level, group libel laws appear to contravene the very order of system of fundamental rights given the reverence freedom of expression commands in democratic societies. The present thesis argues otherwise. The study opines that the harm in group defamation that degrades fundamental characteristics such as race or ethnicity can indeed give rise to individual prejudice because it is a form of harm to identity. In doing so, the study first critically reexamines laws on (group) defamation, related relevant laws, and their constitutional treatment in the American and Canadian legal systems. The thesis offers a new way of reconceptualizing harm in group defamatory speech grounded on an identity-based framework.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech written by Adrienne Stone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech provides a critical analysis of the foundations, rationales, and ideas that underpin freedom of speech as a political idea, and as a principle of positive constitutional law.
Download or read book Freedom of Speech V Protection of Reputation written by Jideofor Adibe and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, it is looked at how free speech interests are balanced against the need to protect reputation in American and English defamation laws. The premise of the study is that while freedom of the press is desirable and cherishable, it is important that the individual is recognized as the foundational block of human rights and the democratic process, who is entitled to his reputation as part of his human dignity. It means that cases in which the press uses public interest defence to attack reputations require close analyses to ensure that both the individual and the public good are equally protected. This study examined four cases in the U.S., New York Times v Sullivan, Curtis Publishing Co. v Butts -- Time Inc v Hill and Monitor Patriot v Roy. In the UK, the cases examined are Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspaper Ltd. and Others, Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd, and George Galloway v Telegraph Group Ltd.--[book cover].
Download or read book Defamation and Freedom of Speech written by Dario Milo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the law of defamation, and argues that it must be reformed in a number of ways in order to balance two important constitutional rights, the right to reputation and the right to freedom of expression. The book analyses how far the media and others should be entitled to go in reporting on important matters of public interest in society, such as corruption and misconduct in public office. It also examines where the line should be drawn between a public figure's public and private life.
Download or read book Group Libel Versus Free Speech written by Kenneth Lasson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1984 may not have fulfilled Orwellian prophecies of governmental totalitarianism, but citizens of the world remain no less concerned about the quality of their civil liberties. If people could live peacefully and productively together under a strict caste system, or blissfully in enslavement, there would be little impetus to identify 'natural rights' nor insistence upon what we know as 'freedom.' But human experience has amply demonstrated the universal yearning for personal liberty, as well as the need to legislate against its deprivation. Thus Big Brother has been the enemy from long before the Magna Carta and long since the Bill of Rights. Punishment of racial defamation has not jeopardized freedom elsewhere. Neither would democracy suffer in America, were Nazis prohibited from marching in Skokie.
Download or read book The Harm in Hate Speech written by Jeremy Waldron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book FREE SPEECH RESPONSIBLE COMMUNICATION UNDER LAW written by ROBERT M O NEIL and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights written by Bychawska-Siniarska, Dominika and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.
Download or read book Only Words written by Catharine A. MacKinnon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.
Download or read book Hate Speech written by Samuel Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a chronological history of the U.S. policy on hate speech, which in most other countries is prohibited
