Reputation and Defamation

ISBN: 9780199231454 出版年：2009 页码：275 McNamara, Lawrence Oxford University Press

The idea that the law of defamation protects people's reputation is axiomatic, yet there is no coherent legal definition of the concept of reputation. This book 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'.