Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Lanuage

by Kent Greenawalt

Book Overview

In this book Greenawalt explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language. He begins by considering free speech as a political principle, and after a thorough and incisive analysis of the justifications commonly advanced for freedom of speech, looks at the kinds of communications to which the principle of free speech applies. He then turns to an examination of communications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195077113
• ISBN13: 9780195077117
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"