Author(s): Rodney Smolla
Publisher: West
Last Release: November, 2012
Description: Law of Defamation offers a comprehensive analysis of defamation law, useful to legal practitioners and other professionals, including professors, publishers, and media industry experts. Updated every year, this two-volume set provides step-by-step guidance to all the legal and business complexities posed by modern libel law and addresses topics, such as:
Publisher: West
Last Release: November, 2012
Description: Law of Defamation offers a comprehensive analysis of defamation law, useful to legal practitioners and other professionals, including professors, publishers, and media industry experts. Updated every year, this two-volume set provides step-by-step guidance to all the legal and business complexities posed by modern libel law and addresses topics, such as:
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• Definition of public employee
• Corporate speech
• Recipient approach to determining defamatory character of words
• Criminalization of mere “lies”
• Preliminary injunctions and the “Occupy Wall Street” protests
• Right of publicity and the First Amendment
• Public figure/private figure dichotomy
• Fault requirements
• Defamatory meaning
• Truth as a constitutional defense
• Opinion and fair comment
• Special harm
• Libel and slander rules
• Common law privileges
• Damages and other remedies
• Invasion of privacy
• Emotional distress
• Injurious falsehood
• Negligent publication
• Litigation
• Counseling and strategy
• Defamation in the workplace
(description from publisher's website)
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