Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Constitutional

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...

The Theory of Contestation advances critical norms research in international relations. It scrutinises the uses of 'contestation' in international relations theories with regard to its descriptive and normative potential. To that end, critical investigations into international relations are conducted based on three thinking tools from public philosophy and the social sciences: The normativity premise, the diversity premise and cultural cosmopolitanism. The resulting theory of contestation entails four main features, namely types of norms, modes of contestation, segments of norms and...

Das Ubungsbuch soll die Studierenden von der Anfangerubung im Offentlichen Recht bis zum Examen begleiten. Das Buch bietet zu zentralen Fragen der Fallbearbeitung im Verfassungsrecht eine theoretische Grundlegung, praktische Hinweise und Anleitungen sowie neuen Musterlosungen. Das Werk unterscheidet sich von den ublichen Anleitungswerken zur Fallbearbeitung im Verfassungsrecht vor allem dadurch, dass es Aufbau und Methode der Falllosung reflektiert und durch ausgewahlte Vertiefungshinweise in hohem Mae zum Eigenstudium anregt. Ferner bietet das Werk in seinem ersten Teil eine theoretische...

To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception.

Drawing on legal as well as philosophical arguments, the book defends a series of notable...