Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values examines the attempts by courts to sort out conflicts involving freedom of expression, including religious expression, on the one hand, and rights to privacy and other important social values, on the other.

Preface Part One-Prolegomena Chapter I-Introduction Chapter II- "Rights" Discourse Chapter III-Structural Impediments to Consistent Application of "Universal" Human Rights Part Two-The Difficult Issues Chapter IV-The Enlarged View of Rights in Contemporary Constitutions and Human Rights Conventions-The Notion of Defeasible Rights Chapter V-Litigation Involving a Conflict of Rights, Each of Equal Value Part Three-The Limited Help from Philosophy and the Social Sciences Chapter VI-The Epistemology of Judicial Decision Making Chapter VII- The Unsuccessful Attempt to Find a Philosophical "North Star" to Aid in Judicial Decision Making Chapter VIII-The Use of Balancing Tests and Factor Analysis-The Inevitable Tendency to Resort to Bright-Line Tests Part Four-Case-by-Case Adjudication Chapter IX-An Overview of Case-by-Case Adjudication, Its Possible Goals, and the Influence of Legal Traditions Chapter X-The Optimal Conditions for Case-by-Case Adjudication and Its Limits Chapter XI-Case-by-Case Adjudication of Contentious Human Rights Controversies Part Five-Conclusion Chapter XII-What If We Must Choose? Table of Cases Index

Selling point: Discusses conflicts between freedom of expression and the right to privacy and other important social values Selling point: Approaches these conflicts from a comparative perspective, which provides readers with a deep understand of this complex issue Selling point: Describes privacy and freedom of expression cases decided by European and United States courts Selling point: A serious book that will also be of great interest to a general audience

George C. Christie is James B. Duke Professor of Law at the Duke University School of Law. He has degrees from Columbia and Harvard, and a diploma in International Law from Cambridge. In addition to a long career in academia, he has been at various times a lawyer in private practice as well as assistant general counsel for the United States Agency for International Development. His chief academic interests are in the areas of torts and jurisprudence, in both of which he has published widely. His monograph: The Notion of an Ideal Audience in Legal Argument was published in 2000 and then translated and published in French in 2005. An earlier monograph: Law, Norms and Authority was published in 1982. His current interest in problems encountered in the adjudication of human rights is part of his wider interest in comparative legal reasoning. Professor Christie has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States, including Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, as well as at universities in Greece, New Zealand, China, Japan, South Africa, and Germany. He is a past fellow of the National Humanities Center in the United States and has also been a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Selling point: Discusses conflicts between freedom of expression and the right to privacy and other important social values Selling point: Approaches these conflicts from a comparative perspective, which provides readers with a deep understand of this complex issue Selling point: Describes privacy and freedom of expression cases decided by European and United States courts Selling point: A serious book that will also be of great interest to a general audience