Stigma, State Expressions and the Law: Implications of Freedom of Speech

ISBN-13: 9781032241128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 316 str.

Paul Quinn

Opis

This book demonstrates that the difficulties the law is likely to encounter in regulating the expressive activities of the state, particularly with regard to the stigmatization of vulnerable groups and minorities.

Spis treści

Introduction

1 What are state expressions and how can they be stigmatizing?

2 Defining stigma and its potential harm

3 Developing a normative approach towards the use of stigmatizing state expressions

4 Stigmatizing state expression as hate speech

5 The importance of the lack of binding effects produced by SSEs

6 Stigmatizing state expressions · a threat to privacy?

7 Carte blanche to stigmatize or a pragmatic reality in a liberal democracy?

Author’s note

O autorze

Paul Quinn is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Free University).