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Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech de Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.

Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech

Autor Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 sep 2024

Subliniem de la început că Free Speech as Civic Structure se situează pe linia analitică propusă de Freedom of Speech in the Western World, însă cu un focus mult mai apăsat pe modul în care cultura juridică și instanțele, mai degrabă decât textele constituționale, definesc realitatea libertății de exprimare. Remarcăm o teză provocatoare: prezența sau absența unui text explicit în constituție este doar un punct de plecare, forța reală a dreptului fiind dată de disponibilitatea judecătorilor de a limita cenzura guvernamentală. Notăm cu interes cum Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. demonstrează că sisteme fără o garanție scrisă a libertății de exprimare, precum cel din Australia, sau fără o constituție formală, cum este cazul Israelului, pot oferi protecții mai robuste decât state cu texte constituționale rigide, dar cu instanțe mai puțin independente. Această lucrare rafinează direcțiile explorate anterior de autor în The Disappearing First Amendment, unde analiza se concentra pe erodarea drepturilor în context american, și în The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Aici, perspectiva se extinde global, argumentând că „constitutionalismul de drept comun” este motorul principal al libertății civile. Cititorul va înțelege mecanismele prin care judecătorii protejează deliberarea democratică de interesele politice, transformând o valoare socio-juridică abstractă într-o structură civică funcțională. Analiza comparativă între SUA, Africa de Sud și Regatul Unit dezvăluie un tipar global: textul legii este adesea ignorat în favoarea unei abordări dinamice care să răspundă climatului politic și social actual.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197662199
ISBN-10: 0197662196
Pagini: 330
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru juriști, politologi și studenți interesați de drept comparat. Veți câștiga o perspectivă critică asupra limitărilor textelor constituționale și veți înțelege de ce independența judiciară este singura garanție reală a libertății de exprimare. Este un instrument analitic riguros care demonstrează cum se menține echilibrul democratic într-o epocă a presiunilor politice intense asupra discursului public.

Despre autor

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. este un reputat specialist în drept constituțional și profesor universitar, recunoscut pentru analizele sale profunde asupra Primului Amendament și a dreptului comparat. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Privacy Revisited și Reclaiming the Petition Clause, explorează intersecția dintre drepturile individuale, supravegherea guvernamentală și evoluția tehnologică. Prin lucrările sale publicate la Oxford University Press, Krotoszynski s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în dezbaterea despre modul în care democrațiile contemporane protejează sau limitează libertățile civile fundamentale.

Descriere

Free Speech as Civic Structure:A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech examines and explains the limited relevance of constitutional text to the scope and vibrancy of free speech rights within a particular national legal system. Across jurisdictions, text or its absence will serve merely as a starting point for judicial efforts to protect speech activity. These judicial efforts, involving an ongoing and dynamic process of common law constitutionalism, will set the precise metes and bounds of expressive freedom within a particular polity. In the United States, the contemporary Supreme Court largely ignores the actual text of the First Amendment in "First Amendment" cases. Moreover, this pattern repeats elsewhere - including Australia, Israel, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Judges in systems with relevant constitutional text (the United States and South Africa), as well as relevant statutory text (the United Kingdom), will often disregard the precise articulation of the right in favor of deploying a dynamic common law approach to protect speech from self-interested politicians who seek to distort the process of democratic deliberation. Judges also take the laboring oar in countries that lack a written free speech guarantee (Australia) or even a formal constitution as such (Israel). The strength or weakness of free speech protections depends critically on the willingness and ability of judges to police government efforts to censor speech - in conjunction with the salience of speech as a socio-legal value within the body politic. Thus, a legal system featuring independent courts, ideally vested with a power of judicial review, but that lacks a written free speech guarantee will likely feature broader protection of the freedom of expression than a legal system with a written guarantee that lacks independent courts. Across jurisdictions, text or its absence invariably serves as, at best, as a starting point for judicial efforts to protect speech. Judges, engaged in a common law enterprise, matter far more than text and common law constitutionalism constitutes the global rule rather than the exception.

Recenzii

This is an exceptional learned and thoughtful book. Krotoszynski leaves no doubt that that our comparative constitutional law of free speech is too impoverished to make sense of the realities in the globe, where law is created by judges." - James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School
In Free Speech as Civic Structure, Professor Ronald Krotoszynski has once again delivered an ambitious and innovative analysis of the norms and institutions governing speech regulations across continents and cultures. Krotoszynski incisively explains how judicial rulings dictate the scope of speech freedoms to a far greater degree than core constitutional and legislative text would indicate. His insightful observations across multiple countries are compelling national case studies, and collectively offer a novel framework for how judges and scholars understand the regulation of speech." - Charlotte Garden, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
How much does it matter that a constitution has or doesn't have a provision saying that the constitution protects freedom of expression? Professor Krotoszynski's impressive comparative study answers, “Some, but much less than you might think.” Detailed studies of constitutional provisions (or their absence) and case law in the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Israel show that judicial attitudes toward representative democracy and embedded social and legal cultures are more important than constitutional texts in defining the contours of freedom of expression. A valuable and careful comparative study that scholars of free expression, comparative constitutional law, and interpretive methods will all profit from reading." - Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Professor Krotoszynski has written a brilliant book about how free speech is protected across the world. Looking at several countries, he shows that ultimately the protection of expression depends on the judges far more than the text of a constitution. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Professor Krotoszynski's analysis provides crucial insights as to how a society can ensure freedom of speech." - Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School
The great 20th century jurist Learned Hand famously opined that “liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” Ronald Krotoszynski's Free Speech as Civic Structure partly challenges and partly confirms Hand's observation. Krotoszynski takes readers on a remarkable tour of common law jurisdictions around the globe. He finds that judges play a critical role in protecting and defining the reach of free expression, bounded by the views of the culture in which they work-that is, by what lies in the hearts of men and women. This thoroughly researched and carefully argued book convincingly demonstrates that codification in a national constitution is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for robust protection of free expression." - Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
This is an exceptional learned and thoughtful book. Krotoszynski leaves no doubt that that our comparative constitutional law of free speech is too impoverished to make sense of the realities in the globe, where law is created by judges.
Professor Krotoszynski has written a brilliant book about how free speech is protected across the world. Looking at several countries, he shows that ultimately the protection of expression depends on the judges far more than the text of a constitution. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Professor Krotoszynski's analysis provides crucial insights as to how a society can ensure freedom of speech.
The great 20th century jurist Learned Hand famously opined that "liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it." This book partly challenges and partly confirms Hand's observation. Krotoszynski takes readers on a remarkable tour of common law jurisdictions around the globe. He finds that judges play a critical role in protecting and defining the reach of free expression, bounded by the views of the culture in which they work -that is, by what lies in the hearts of men and women. This book convincingly demonstrates that codification in a national constitution is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for robust protection of free expression.
It is hard to dispute the author's conclusions, given that in all the countries with which he deals, there are many examples of courts and lawmakers both intervening and restraining themselves, largely in accordance with the prevailing climate (or occasionally trying to stop some perceived moral, ethical or legal danger). The book is accordingly a valuable contribution to a never-ending debate.

Notă biografică

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of the Program in Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement , and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. His teaching and research focus on constitutional law, First Amendment law, administrative law, telecommunications law, and comparative constitutional law. Professor Krotoszynski frequently writes and lectures on topics related to freedom of expression and how law and culture inform speech and law - particularly from a comparative law perspective. He is the author of numerous law review articles and several books, including The Disappearing First Amendment (2019), Privacy Revisited (2016), and The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2006).