Reputation and Defamation
Author:   Lawrence McNamara (Reader, School of Law, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199231454


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lawrence McNamara (Reader, School of Law, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780199231454


ISBN 10:   0199231451
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Theorising Reputation 1: Reputation and Community: The Centrality of Moral Judgment 2: Moral Judgment and Conceptions of Reputation Part Two: History, Law and Reputation 3: Reputation and the History of Defamation 4: The Development of the Common Law Actions Part Three: Reputation and Actionable Defamation in the Modern Common Law 5: Protecting Reputation: The Principal Test for What is Defamatory 6: The 'Shun and Avoid' Test as the Basis for Actionability 7: The Ridicule Test as the Basis for Actionability 8: Ethical Recognition, Moral Diversity and 'The Right-Thinking Person' Conclusion: Re-thinking the Tests for What is Defamatory

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McNamara has produced a stimulating and valuable contribution to the literature. European Tort Law ...an important and elegantly-argued addition to the Common Law literature...McNamara's discussion confronts difficult issues of moral diversity and goes some considerable way towards producing a statement of law which is theortetically more coherent than what has gone before Elspeth Reid, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law Review 14.1


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Lawrence McNamara is a Reader at the School of Law at Reading University. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He publishes and presents regularly in the areas of defamation law, racial and religious vilification, and freedom of speech.

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