Reputation and defamation / Lawrence McNamara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNamara, Lawrence.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libel and slander.

Reputation (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lawrence McNamara develops a new theory of reputation through a comparative analysis of how courts in England, the United States and other common law countries have responded to shifting attitudes towards moral values and developed new tests for what should count as 'defamatory'.

Contents:

Reputation and community : the centrality of moral judgment

Moral judgment and conceptions of reputation

History, law, and reputation

Reputation and the history of defamation

The development of the common law actions

Protecting reputation : the principal test for what is defamatory

The "shun and avoid" test as the basis for actionability

The ridicule test as the basis for actionability

Ethical recognition, moral diversity, and "the right-thinking person".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: McNamara, Lawrence. Reputation and defamation,

ISBN:

9780191710858 (ebook)

0191710857 (ebook)

128358140X (ebook)

0191566543

OCLC:

402678003