Courts in the United States, Canada, and Europe currently grant constitutional protection to commercial advertising. This book examines critically the case for freedom of commercial expression. Roger Shiner argues that the institutional history of such protection is one of ad hoc, not logical, development, and that even from within liberal democratic theory, freedom of commercial expression cannot be justified as a constitutional right.
'Shiner presents his case forcefully and, in the main, entirely persuasively... Shiner's is a work of conceptual dissection, done with the kind of care that forestalls the hypnotic effects. The book is filled with extremely precise formulations... Anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of the arguments about protecting commercial expression must now start with this book.' -Law and Politics Book ReviewCourts in the United States, Canada, and Europe currently grant constitutional protection to commercial advertising. This book examines critically the case for freedom of commercial expression. Roger Shiner argues that the institutional history of such protection is one of ad hoc, not logical, development, and that even from within liberal democratic theory, freedom of commercial expression cannot be justified as a constitutional right.Readership: Academics, practitioners and judges in the fields of human rights, commercial law, constitutional law and legal philosophy, political theory, and business
'Shiner presents his case forcefully and, in the main, entirely persuasively... Shiner's is a work of conceptual dissection, done with the kind of care that forestalls the hypnotic effects. The book is filled with extremely precise formulations... Anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of the arguments about protecting commercial expression must now start with this book.' -Law and Politics Book ReviewCourts in the United States, Canada, and Europe currently grant constitutional protection to commercial advertising. This book examines critically the case for freedom of commercial expression. Roger Shiner argues that the institutional history of such protection is one of ad hoc, not logical, development, and that even from within liberal democratic theory, freedom of commercial expression cannot be justified as a constitutional right.Readership: Academics, practitioners and judges in the fields of human rights, commercial law, constitutional law and legal philosophy, political theory, and business
The volume deals with vital issues on freedom of expression and freedom of information and emphasizes the importance of the free exchange and dissemination of ideas and of open, and therefore more...
This book is a reprint of the chapters on privacy and freedom of expression from the authors' major practitioner text, The Law of Human Rights. Its separate publication in this form is intended to...
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