LIBERTÀ DI ESPRESSIONE E DIRITTO PENALE: L'ESPERIENZA AMERICANA

Today virtually all liberal democracies protect, in formal legal documents as well as in actual practice, both freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The peculiar history and culture of each nation is very important in order to understand different approaches to similar problems and to build a cross-cultural normative critique. This doctoral thesis is mainly concerned with the US approach to classical freedom of speech issues, such as advocacy to commit an offence: the first part of the work aims to describe the most influential pronounces of the US Supreme Court in this field; the second part is concerned with the definition of the constitutional core of democratic speech.