Speech Matters

A day-conference with Professor Seana Shiffrin on her book Speech Matters(Princeton, 2014)

Accreditation: This event is accredited with 2.5 CPD hours with the SRA and BSB

The UCL Institute for Human Rights is hosting a one-day conference on Seana Shiffrin’s book, Speech Matters (Princeton University Press). Professor Shiffrin is one of the world’s leading legal and moral philosophers. Her recent book, Speech Matters, offers a new philosophical approach to freedom of speech and brings it to bear on a number of thorny legal and political issues. These include the legal regulation of lying and deception, police misrepresentation, restrictions on commercial speech, freedom of speech and academic freedom, freedom of speech of employees, and many others. Drawing on legal as well as philosophical arguments, the book defends a series of notable claims: that lying is a separate wrong from deception, that lies are not protected by free speech, that duress does not necessarily justify lying or breaking a promise and that police subvert their mission when they lie to suspects.

The participants

• Professor Eric Barendt (University College London)
• Dr Kate Greasley (University of Oxford)
• Professor Leslie Green (University of Oxford)
• Dr Amanda Greene (University College London)
• Dr Nicholas Hatzis (City University London)
• Professor Leslie Kendrick (University of Virginia)
• Professor Rae Langton (University of Cambridge)
• Professor George Letsas (University College London)
• Dr Virginia Mantouvalou (University College London)
• Dr Chris Mills (University College London)
• Professor David Owens (King’s College London)
• Dr Prince Saprai (University College London)
• Professor Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia)
• Professor Seanna Shiffrin (UCLA Law)
• Professor Nicos Stavropoulos (University of Oxford)

The Programme

Morning session