Reputation and defamation /

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Main Author: McNamara, Lawrence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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Table of 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"