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Book Launch: Richard Moon's "The Life and Death of Free Expression"

We're delighted to announce that we're hosting another book launch this semester, this time for Professor Richard Moon's (U Windsor) new book, The Life and Death of Free Expression. The launch will take place at Kaffa Roaster in Edmonton and will feature presentations by Professor Moon and Professor Eric Adams (U of A, Faculty of Law). To attend, please click the button on the right to register on Eventbrite.

Book Synopsis:

In The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge in discourse – in the joint activity of creating meaning. Moon recognizes that the social character of individual agency and identity is crucial to understanding not only the value of expression but also its potential for harm.

The book considers a range of issues, including the regulation of advertising, hate speech, pornography, blasphemy, and public protest. The book also considers the shift to social media as the principal platform for public engagement, which has added to the ways in which speech can be harmful while undermining the effectiveness of traditional legal responses to harmful speech. The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression makes the case that the principal threat to public discourse may no longer be censorship, but it is rather the spread of disinformation, which undermines public trust in traditional sources of information and makes engagement between different positions and groups increasingly difficult.

 

Speakers

Richard Moon

Professor, University of Windsor
Richard Moon is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Windsor. His research focuses on freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and religion. He is the author of The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression (U of T Press, 2024), Putting Faith in Hate: When Religion is the Source or Target of Hate Speech (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018), Freedom of Conscience and Religion (Irwin Law, 2014) (2nd edition, 2024), The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression (U of T Press, 2000), and Report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission Concerning Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Regulation of Hate Speech on the Internet (CHRC, 2008), editor of Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada (UBC Press, 2008), co-editor of Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2016), Indigenous Spirituality and Religious Freedom (U of T Press, in press), The Surprising Constitution (UBC Press, 2024), contributing editor to Canadian Constitutional Law (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th editions) (Emond-Montgomery, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2022). He has been the recipient of both the law school and university-wide teaching awards, the Mary Lou Dietz Award for contributions to the advancement of equity in the university and community, and The Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan Distinguished Public Service Award (The Amadiyya Muslim Jama’at), Toronto, July 15, 2023. He has held a number of academic positions including President of the Canadian Law and Society Assn. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice.

Event Date(s):

October 17, 2024, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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