Contested Words: Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies (Applied Legal Philosophy)

Contested Words: Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies (Applied Legal Philosophy)

Ian Cram
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Publication Date: November 30th, 2016
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN:
9781138275300
Pages:
244
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Description

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 better understood as contributing to a healthy dialogue between the different spheres of the constitution. This book offers a contribution to on-going debates surrounding the judicial role in protecting human rights in western society.

About the Author

Ian Cram is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for the Human Rights Research Unit in the School of Law at Leeds University, UK. He is the Programme Director for the LLM in International and European Human Rights Law. His research interests include public law, comparative law and human rights. He has published widely in these areas in leading academic journals.

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