Adrienne Stone holds a Chair at Melbourne Law School where she is also a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She researches in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory with particular attention to freedom of expression. Frederick Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.He has written widely on freedom of expression, constitutional law and theory, evidence, legal reasoning and the philosophy of law.
This is, therefore, without doubt a seminal piece of work, that not only makes a valuable contribution to the free speech debate now but will, no doubt, continue to act as a catalyst and resource for further research and debate long into the future. Stone and Schauer, and their contributors, have managed to adroitly balance authoritative analysis with accessibility. Consequently, this book will not only be of huge value to academic and practising lawyers operating within the media law and human rights spheres, but will also be of interest to law students, philosophers and communication and journalism scholars around the world. Personally, this exceptional collection has already become indispensable for my research and teaching and is a book that I will not hesitate to recommend to my University's library. * Dr Peter Coe, University of Reading, Entertainment Law Review *