Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of the Media: Dynamics and Dilemmas

This is Volume 44 in the Human Rights Research Series published by Intersentia, in First Edition state. A big, fat, oversized, sterling condition softcover exemplar, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial card-stock wraps. From a publisher blurb, "This book offers a rigorous, theory-based, and uniquely comprehensive, analysis of European and international legal standards shaping minorities' right to freedom of expression. The analysis pays particular attention to the instrumental role played by traditional and new forms of media in ensuring that the right to freedom of expression of persons belonging to minorities is effective in practice. The relevant international legal framework is set out in detail, including a careful examination of the relationship between generalist and minority-specific international human rights instruments. Due attention is paid to the historical circumstances in which key instruments were developed and the contemporary context in which they are now being interpreted. The analysis is also informed by an awareness of institutional and political dynamics. All of this forms the basis for the book's central objective: to mount a critical evaluation of the existing international legal framework governing freedom of expression for minorities, while drawing on theoretical insights gained from human rights scholarship and communications science.The first major focus of the evaluation is the regulation and restriction of expression to protect minority rights, in which issues such as pluralism, tolerance and "hate speech" feature centrally. Its second major focus, the regulation and facilitation of expression to promote minority rights, explores cultural and linguistic rights and media access questions. This book is a revised and updated version of my doctoral thesis, Minority rights and freedom of expression: a dynamic interface, which I successfully defended at the University of Amsterdam on 7 October 2008." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvi, 667 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…