Discovery Project:
Freedom of Expression in Democratic States: A New Theoretical Direction
2008-2011

Modern democratic states must protect freedom of expression while also responding to the harms caused by hateful, violent and dangerous form of speech - a problem accentuated by increasing racial, religious and ethnic conflict and the threat of (and responses to) terrorism. The project is important because it aims to develop a theory of freedom of expression that - free from the distorting influence of the United States jurisprudence - can explain and guide the courts in other democratic countries. Its comparative and theoretical innovation will place Australian scholarship at the forefront of a central problem in modern political life and enrich scholarly and public debate.

Chief investigator – Professor Adrienne Stone

Adrienne Stone
Ph: +61 3 8344 1130
Fax: +61 3 9349 0973
asstone@unimelb.edu.au