Globally Managing American Speech?

by Kenneth Anderson
The Volokh Conspiracy
October 2, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/484

Excerpt:

I read with great interest Eugene's post below on the Obama administration, free speech, and human rights. As it happens, I'm trying to finish up a manuscript on the UN and "values" at this very moment, and so alas don't have time to comment more than a few paragraphs about this. Here are a couple of observations that I don't propose to defend here; I throw them out unsupported, and I'll try to go back and add something else later.  Many of them are about the intellectual community of international law, which I take as relevant here in part because Eugene is trying to sort out what various international law experts say is or is not the import of the free speech drafts in the UN Human Rights Council; I think it matters to have a sense, even if it's just my personal and idiosyncratic one, of the baseline of international law experts.  (I don't promise that I have re-read this closely despite some aggressive characterizations here; I'm simply out of time.)

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