European Review of Public Law Cover of Vol. 36, no 3, (133)
The Right to Free Speech between Conceptual Evolution, Legal Protection, and Jurisprudential Practice
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2024/ Vol. 36, no 3, (133)
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The Right to Free Speech between Conceptual Evolution, Legal Protection, and Jurisprudential Practice

Donato Vese
Ass. Professor in Law and Economics at School of Law, University of Pisa and Academic Fellow at Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of University of Oxford. MA (Catholic University of Milan), LL.M. (Trinity College Dublin), Ph.D. (Sant’Anna-Iuss University for Advanced Studies)

Legal systems in Western countries protect freedom of expression as one of the most valuable assets and ensure that public authorities do not restrict it. In this article, we explore the historical, literary, and legal reasons for this claim and try to understand whether this is the case. The main argument here is that we are in a transitional phase and that fundamental human rights, such as freedom of expression, are still subject to intrusive forms of restriction.

Keywords: Freedom of expression; public power; Athens and Rome; Mill and Foucault; US and EU case-law; ECtHR; privacy and data protection

Les systèmes juridiques des pays occidentaux protègent la liberté d’expression comme l’un des biens les plus précieux et veillent à ce que les autorités publiques ne la restreignent pas. Dans cet article, nous examinons les raisons historiques, littéraires et juridiques de cette affirmation et tentons de comprendre si c’est le cas. L’argument principal est que nous sommes dans une phase de transition et que les droits de l’homme fondamentaux, tels que la liberté d’expression, sont encore soumis à des formes intrusives de restriction.

Mots-clés: Liberté d’expression; pouvoir public; Athènes et Rome; Mill et Foucault; jurisprudence des États-Unis et de l’UE; CourEDH; protection de la vie privée et protection des données 

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