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Media Law Prof Blog
Tweeting Defamation
Leslie Yalof Garfield, Pace University School of Law, has published Birds of a Feather: Libel and Slander in the Age of Twitter. Here is the abstract. This article focuses on the…
Media Law Prof Blog
Leading British Judge Says Contradictory Legal Systems Have Led To Unpredictability, “Inhibiting Effects” on Free Expression, In UK
Mr. Justice Eady, a noted British libel law judge, indicated in a speech before a group at City University that contradictory decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights…
Media Law Prof Blog
Debate On British Libel and Privacy Laws Intensifies
From the Guardian, a report on what members of a Parliamentary committee think of current privacy and libel laws, and a response from the Press Complaints Commission.
Media Law Prof Blog
Illustrious Panel Hears BCA v. Simon Singh
First reports on the Simon Singh libel case are trickling in. The Lord Chief Justice pronounced himself "baffled" that if the British Chiropractic Association has evidence that chiropractic works the…
The Faculty Lounge
A Criminal Prosecution of a Book Review Editor?
a I confess that I know absolutely nothing about French criminal law, but I was shocked -- and not in the Claude Rains way -- to learn from Brian Leiter…
Media Law Prof Blog
Jack Straw Proposes Radical Cuts In Attorney Fees To Help Libel Law Overhaul
The British government proposes to cut libel lawyer fees 90 percent to help reforms. Read more here in a Guardian article.
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TortsProf Blog
Twitter Libel?
In this week's Writ column, Julie Hilden analyzes the defamation suit recently filed against Kim Kardashian based on her "tweets" about the Cookie Diet. A copy of the complaint is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Lord Chancellor Further Explains Plans For Review of Britain’s Libel Laws
According to the Media Guardian, Jack Straw's previously announced review of Britain's libel laws will "consider whether the law of libel, including the law relating to libel tourism, in England and…
Media Law Prof Blog
More On a Possible Change in Britain’s Libel Laws
A piece from the New York Times on the British government's push to change current libel laws and the country's image as a haven for defamation plaintiffs.