Description:
This book considers the issue of free speech in transitional democracies focusing on the socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. In showing how these Central and Eastern European countries have engaged with free speech models imported from the Council of Europe / EU and the USA, the book offers valuable insights into the ways states have responded to challenges associated with transformation from communism to Western democracy. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of, comparative constitutional law, law and society, human rights and European law as well as political philosophers.
Review Quotes:
"Belavusau has presented a very important and interesting book, written by an impressively erudite scholar in very vivid, sometimes almost poetic, language. [...] Belavusau has established many important arguments and the book undoubtedly brings an added value to the comparative legal research on freedom of speech in its particular aspects. It is innovative and thought provoking. [...] Belavusau's book is a well-argued position in this discussion, which from now on will constitute mandatory reading for its participants."
Review in the Polish Yearbook of International Law volume XXXIII 2013 by Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences