The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought

Edited by Patrick O'Callaghan · Bethany Shiner
Cambridge University Press March 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009539647
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The right to freedom of thought features prominently in debates about emerging technologies including neurotechnology and AI, but there is little understanding of its scope, content or application. This handbook presents the first attempt to set out how the right is protected, interpreted and applied globally. Eighteen jurisdictions are examined along with chapters describing context-setting, interdisciplinary approaches, and close analysis of the right in relation to specific challenges and conceptual difficulties. Readers familiar with the right will discover fresh perspectives and those new to the right will learn how it is part of the matrix of rights protecting autonomy, dignity, and privacy.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction:
1. Introduction: mapping and implementing legal protection of the right to freedom of thought
Patrick O'Callaghan and Bethany Shiner
2. 'The mind and conscience are the person's most sacred possessions': the origins of freedom of thought in the universal declaration of human rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Christoph Bublitz

Part II. Asia:
3. The right to freedom of thought in Japan
Satoshi Yokodaido
4. The right to freedom of thought in China
Heping Dang
5. The right to freedom of thought in Vietnam
Giao Vu Cong
6. The right to freedom of thought in Malaysia
Kalpana Sivabalah
7. The right to freedom of thought in India
Kelly Amal Dhru

Part III. Europe:
8. The right to freedom of thought in Türkiye
Emine Ozge Yildirim-Vranckaert
9. The right to freedom of thought in Germany
Nora Hertz
10. The right to freedom of thought in France
Marie-Luce Paris
11. The Right to Freedom of Thought in the United Kingdom
Bethany Shiner
12. The right to freedom of thought under the European Convention on Human Rights
Felicitas Benziger

Part IV. Africa:
13. The Right to Freedom of Thought in Kenya
Victoria Miyandazi, Miracle Mudeyi and Harrison Otieno Okoth
14. The right to freedom of thought in Zambia Christopher Phiri
15. The right to freedom of thought in Mauritius
Neel Raamandarsingh Purmah
16. The right to freedom of thought in South Africa
Mariette Jones
17. The right to freedom of thought in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Sfiso Bernard Nxumalo

Part V. Americas:
18. The right to freedom of thought in Brazil
Lucas Oliveira Vianna
19. The right to freedom of thought in Chile
Eduardo A. Chia and Flavio Quezada
20. The right to freedom of thought in Colombia
Diego González Medina and Sebastián Rubiano-Groot
21. The right to freedom of thought in the United States
Marc Jonathan Blitz
22. The right to freedom of thought in Canada
Dwight Newman
23. The right to freedom of thought under the American Convention on Human Rights
Cláudio De Oliveira Santos Colnago and Bethany Shiner

Part VI. The Right to Freedom of Thought in Context:
24. What is thought and what makes it free? Or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love the forum externum
Simon Mccarthy-Jones and Joel Walmsley
25. Online manipulation as a potential interference with the right to freedom of thought
Nina Keese and Mark R. Leiser
26. Neurorights: is the right to freedom of thought in need of an update?
Timo Istace and Catherine Van De Heyning
27. Freedom of thought: absolute protection of mental privacy and mental integrity? Considering the case of neurotechnology in criminal justice
Sjors Ligthart and Naomi Van De Pol
28. Realising the societal dimensions of the right to freedom of thought in the digital age through strategic litigation
Kebene Wodajo
29. Non-ideal theory and protecting freedom of thought
Leslie Francis and John Francis
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