This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate offensive, blasphemous or hate speech, especially, though not exclusively where such speech is thought to be offensive to members of ethnic and religious minorities. The themes addressed are of great significance for contemporary societies in many parts of the world, including Europe and North America, and although the volume focuses principally on the European context, it also addresses the theme on an international level. Contributions look at...
This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate of...
The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of education, including the opportunities to create and operate faith-based schools. However, as European societies become more religiously diverse and less religious at the same time, the role of faith-based schools is increasingly being contested. Serious tensions have emerged between those who ardently support religious schools in their various forms, and those who oppose them. Given that faith-based schools enjoy basic constitutional guarantees in Europe, the controversy around them often surrounds issues of public financing,...
The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of education, including the opportunities to create and operate faith-based schools. How...
This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate "offensive," "blasphemous" or "hate" speech, especially, though not exclusively where such speech is thought to be offensive to members of ethnic and religious minorities.
The themes addressed are of great significance for contemporary societies in many parts of the world, including Europe and North America, and although the volume focuses principally on the European context, it also addresses the theme on an international level....
This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate...
This book argues that we are in need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a range of institutional options and innovative experiments in associative democracy to address the structural problems of existing institutional arrangements whilst maintaining and strengthening democratic forms of government and governance.
This book argues that we are in need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a range of institutional options and innovative experiments...
