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:
- Definition of public employee
- Corporate speech
- Recipient approach to determining defamatory character of words
- Criminalization of mere “lies”
- Preliminary injunctions
- 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
Checklists and charts detailing accepted guidelines and procedures are included.
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