Is there a right of freedom of expression? / Larry Alexander.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

25493

Civil rights -- United States.

Part 1. Defining human rights and delimiting the scope of freedom of expression: --1. Preliminaries: what is a human right, and what activities implicate freedom of expression?

2. Freedom of expression and regulations that affect messages but are not enacted for that reason

3. The puzzles of governmental purpose

Part 2. The core of freedom of expression: government regulations and acts taken to affect messages: --4. The core of freedom of expression: regulations of conduct for the purpose of affecting messages received

5. Track three: government speech and subsidies of speech

6. Miscellaneous regulations of expression

Part 3. Theoretical perspectives on freedom of expression:

7. General justifying theories of freedom of expression

8. The paradoxes of liberalism and the failure of theories justifying a right of freedom of expression

9. Muddling through: freedom of expression in the absence of a human right.

Includes index.

0521529840

xii, 203 p.