Truth as a Constitutional Value: Liberal Constitutionalism, Private Capital, & Media Regulation

Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons. This inaugural lecture will explore the implications of this division on the constitutional regulation of news media corporations. It will argue that constitutional theory needs to acknowledge the essentially public purpose of news media corporations, even when privately owned. The key implications for constitutional regulation that would follow from this acknowledgement will be explored.

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Meet our speakers and chair

Tarun Khaitan (@tarunkhaitan) is the Professor (Chair) of Public Law at the LSE Law School and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Previously, he has been the Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (Oxford), the Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory (Oxford), Vice Dean (Faculty of Law, Oxford), and a Visiting Professor of Law (Chicago, Harvard, and NYU law schools).

Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department at LSE, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD.

Chair:

David Kershaw is Dean of LSE Law School. He is also a member of the LSE Council, the Governing Body of LSE, and an Associate Tenant at Cornerstone Barristers. He is a former General Editor of the Modern Law Review.

More about this event

This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.

LSE Law School (@LSELaw) is one of the world’s top law schools with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and legal research.