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Koncepce svobody projevu v judikatuře amerického Nejvyššího soudu a v teoriích předních amerických akademiků

Title in English The Concept of Freedom of Speech in the Judicial Acts of the American Supreme Court and in the Theories of Prominent US Law Professors
Authors

SCHWEIGL Johan

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Právní a ekonomické problémy VI.
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Field Law sciences
Keywords Freedom of Speech; Supreme Court; Clear and Present Danger; Justice Holmes; Professor Emerson; Professor Meiklejohn; Professor Rothbard; Slovakian Press Act
Description The author divided his article into four chapters. The purpose of the first chapter is to make reader acquinted with the general approaches of professors Emerson, Meiklejohn and Rothbard to the connotation of freedom of speech. Secondly, the author outlines the famous case Schenck v. United States wherein Justice Holmes expressed his persuasion that freedom of speech is not absolute and further the author describes answeres of the abovementioned professors to this judgement. In the third chapter, the authors gives an account and brief desciption of the limitation doctrines regarding freedom of speech in US. And lastly, the author ponders over a possible approach of professor Rothbard to the now Slovakian Press Act

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