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** Dear colleagues, this might be of interest to you or some of your contacts. Please feel free to circulate this call for papers. All the best, Charles Girard & Clotilde Nouët CALL FOR PAPERS IVR World Congress 2019<http://www.ivr2019.org/> 29th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) University of Lucerne (Switzerland), 7-13 July 2019. Special workshop (SW75)<https://www.ivr2019.org/special-workshops> : “Regulating freedom of expression in liberal democracies: an equal right for all?” Legal rules governing freedom of expression take different forms in liberal democracies. Certain rules limit freedom of expression to protect other rights or social interests. Other rules limit freedom of expression to make it more equal for all right holders. These latter rules are not supposed to “restrict” freedom of expression, but to “regulate” it (Rawls, 1971). They include rules distributing scarce expressive resources (radio frequencies, airtime, etc.), rules governing access to and use of public spaces for expressive ends, or rules of incorporation that allow the collective exercise of freedom of expression (associations, churches, unions, political parties, etc.). Such rules are commonly justified by the need to create the conditions for fair participation in public discussion (Habermas 1996, Scanlon, 2003). They are needed to level the playing field on the « marketplace of ideas » or on « the public forum». Freedom of expression cannot be understood to confer an unlimited right to the means of communication, which could not be given at the same time to all. To realize freedom of expression, certain “rules of order” (Sunstein, 2018) should regulate the discussion. This regulation is, however, problematic, as the limitations it places on the individual exercise of freedom of expression run the risk of being perceived as abusive (Fiss, 1998). Limits on the economic concentration of media companies, quotas of speaking time imposed during election periods, or rules enforcing net neutrality are simultaneously defended as favoring the equal exercise of free expression and denounced as arbitrary restrictions imposed on freedom of expression (Sunstein, 1993). If the right to free expression entails the possibility of expressing oneself without being subjected to arbitrary interference, how can we know when rules contribute to realizing freedom of speech and when they arbitrarily restrict it? How can freedom of expression be an equal right for all? Abstracts (up to 1500 words) should be sent to convenors before March 24, 2019. Convenors : Charles Girard, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) Clotilde Nouët, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin ([email protected]<mailto:clotilde.nou%c3%[email protected]>) Clotilde NOUËT ---- Postdoctorante/ Postdoctoral researcher LabEx COMOD (Constitution de la modernité), Université de Lyon https://comod.universite-lyon.fr<https://comod.universite-lyon.fr/> Laboratoire IRPhiL, EA 4187 -- Pour toute question, la FAQ de la liste se trouve ici: https://www.vidal-rosset.net/
