Free Speech Theory

A Radical Restatement
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5828-3
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

Do free speech rights apply against private actors?

Free Speech Theory challenges contemporary thought on this issue. It champions free speech not for its contribution to epistemic advance or informed democratic participation, but as a product of individuality, located in a system of freedom from state control. This has wide-ranging implications for rights-claims directed against private actors concerning online, workplace, and public-interest based forms of speech.

This innovative, rigorously researched, and comprehensive restatement of free speech principle is both topical and important. It has significance for policy makers, practitioners, and commentators around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wragg, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Overview
1. Authenticity

Part II: Methodology
2. Orthodoxy
3. Justification as Definition
4. Proof

Part III: Restatement
5. The Problem of Individuality
6. Epistemology
7. Democratic Participation
8. Irrationality

Part IV: Horizontality
9. Digital Speech
10. Public Interest Speech
11. Workplace Speech

Part V: Conclusion
12. A Radical Restatement

Über Autor(innen)

Wragg, Paul
Paul Wragg is Professor of Media Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK.

Paul Wragg is Professor of Media Law at the University of Leeds, UK.