Legal Argumentation and Evidence
By Douglas N. Walton
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Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
Number Of Pages:374
Publication Date:2002-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0271021772
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780271021775
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"Walton makes a significant contribution to the understanding of legal argumentation and to the concept of relevance in evidence law. He goes beyond formal logic and adds an analysis of abduction and plausible inference to fill gaps in what a deductive system can accomplish. The resulting theory provides an important insight into the relationships among the steps of a legal argument. The dialogue structure on which it is based should prove to be of great value in understanding strategy, either for the advocate, the evaluator of evidence, or the student of the legal process."—Kevin Saunders, University of Oklahoma Law School
"Legal Argumentation and Evidence is an original and important contribution not only to legal reasoning but also to the development of argumentation theory, critical thinking, and reasoning in general. It will be of interest to legal scholars but also to argumentation and reasoning theorists who want to keep abreast of the most recent developments in the field."—Hans V. Hansen, University of Windsor
A leading expert in informal logic, Douglas Walton turns his attention in this new book to how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with special emphasis on the law of evidence. The new model he develops, drawing on methods of argumentation theory that are gaining wide acceptance in computing fields like artificial intelligence, can be used to identify, analyze, and evaluate specific types of legal argument.
In contrast with approaches that rely on deductive and inductive logic and rule out many common types of argument as fallacious, Walton’s aim is to provide a more expansive view of what can be considered "reasonable" in legal argument when it is construed as a dynamic, rule-governed, and goal-directed conversation. This dialogical model gives new meaning to the key notions of relevance and probative weight, with the latter analyzed in terms of pragmatic criteria for what constitutes plausible evidence rather than truth.
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Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Volume 11 (2004-2005)
By Cotran, E. (ed.), Lau, M. (ed.)
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Publisher:BRILL
Number Of Pages:484
Publication Date:2006-12-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004151486
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004151482
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Product Description:
Practitioners and academics dealing with the Middle East can turn to the "Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law" for an instant source of information on the developments over an entire year in the region. The Yearbook covers Islamic and non-Islamic legal subjects, including the laws themselves, of some twenty Arab and other Islamic countries. The publication's practical features include: articles on current topics, country surveys reflecting important new legislation and amendments to existing legislation per country, the text of a selection of documents and important court cases, a Notes and News section, and book reviews.
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The Guardianship Book For California: How To Become A Child's Guardian
By David Brown, Emily Doskow
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Publisher:NOLO
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:2005-01-18
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1413301460
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781413301465
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Product Description:
Thousands of children in California need legal guardians because their parents have died, abandoned them or are otherwise unable to care for them. The Guardianship Book for California provides everything you need to obtain a legal guardianship without a lawyer.
Get the tools you need to:
*decide whether to obtain a legal guardianship
*find out if you are eligible to enroll a minor in school and make medical decisions without becoming a legal guardian
*use alternate forms if a legal guardianship is not practical
*obtain a guardianship for finances or for personal and physical care of a minor, or both
*prepare, file and have guardianship papers served
*appear before a judge
*obtain a temporary guardianship in an urgent situation
*deal with institutions and agencies -- with or without a guardianship -- schools, medical facilities, insurance companies, public assistance agencies and more
*end a guardianship
The Guardianship Book for California includes all the necessary forms and instructions for becoming a legal guardian in California. The 5th edition, completely overhauled to provide the latest in the law, provides new Judicial Council forms.
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide
By Stephen Fishman
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Publisher:NOLO
Number Of Pages:250
Publication Date:2005-02-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1413301479
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781413301472
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Product Description:
If you own rental property, you should be taking advantage of the many tax write-offs available. Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide gives residential landlords the plain-English guide they need to save money on taxes -- without the services of a high-priced accounting firm.
This book explains how to maximize your deductions. Find out how to:
*fill out IRS Schedule E *take real estate tax credits *figure out if an expense is a repair (deductible) or an improvement (depreciable) *maximize your depreciation deductions *deduct losses arising from real estate ownership *keep proper tax records *deduct home office, travel, casualty losses and much more
Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide is comprehensive yet easy to read, jam packed with interesting and relevant examples.
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The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities(11th Edition)
By David Wayne Brown, Ralph E. Warner, Janet Portman
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Publisher:NOLO
Number Of Pages:530
Publication Date:2005-01-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN:141330141X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781413301410
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Product Description:
The most comprehensive -- and easiest to use -- guide to California residential property management available.
Every California landlord and residential property manager needs The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities. The definitive guide for over 15 years, it clearly and comprehensively covers everything you need to know about:
*security deposits
*leases and rental agreements
*inspections
*habitability
*liability
*lead paint
*discrimination
*rent control
*satellite dishes
*and more
The book provides you with all the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including rental applications; leases and rental agreements 3-, 30-, 60- and 90-day notices -- and much more.
The 11th edition includes new landlord-tenant laws for 2005. It also has updated rent control charts for 15 cities.
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Libel Law, Political Criticism, and Defamation of Public Figures: The United States, Europe, and Australia
By Peter N. Amponsah
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Publisher:LFB Scholarly Publishing
Number Of Pages:240
Publication Date:2004-03-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1593320116
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781593320119
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Amponsah studies political defamation laws in the United States, the European Court of Human Rights, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Prevailing jurisprudence of each area weighs political speech against reputation through a preferred balancing approach which gives more protection to political speech. While the different jurisdictions place greater interest in political speech than individual reputation in matters of public concern and governance, all used multiple rationales such as the marketplace of ideas, self-fulfillment, search for truth, and democratic self-government principles to justify protection of political speech. Democratic jurisdictions give heightened protection for political speech by assimilating into their libel laws values embodied in multiple rationales for protecting political speech.
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Women's Rights in Native North America: Legal Mobilization in the US and Canada (Law and Society (New York, N.Y.).)
By Judith H. Aks
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Publisher:LFB Scholarly Publishing
Number Of Pages:256
Publication Date:2004-02-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1593320124
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781593320126
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Aks’s analysis of "marrying out" cases--when indigenous women marry outside of their tribe--in the United States and Canada examines how indigenous women mobilize the law. By marrying out of their tribes/bands, these women either lose their "Indian" status or are unable to pass such status on to their children, and they have few legal tools that encompass their unique identities. The book concludes that the impact of indigenous women's legal mobilization should be assessed in terms of the potential for future democratic participation. Legal mobilization helps tame the effects of intersectional power only if it provides indigenous women new opportunities to redefine rights.
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Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East (Islamic Mediterranean Series)
By Baudouin Dupret
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Publisher:I. B. Tauris
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:2004-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1860649971
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781860649974
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Product Description:
This work focuses on the relationship between the law and the concept of the person in modern Arab societies. It directly addresses the questions of continuities, transformations and ruptures of such notions. Law performs a central function in revealing social and historical dynamics and in being itself a tool of its implementation. The introduction of Western-style legal systems partially led to a transposition of characteristics of centrality, individualism and secularism. Standing Trial is the first truly interdisciplinary study of its subject, combining legal, historical and socio-legal perspectives.
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Opportunities in Forensic Science
By Blythe Camenson
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Publisher:McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages:160
Publication Date:2008-09-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0071545336
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780071545334
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Product Description:
Each book offers:
The latest information on a field of interest Training and educational requirements for each career Salary statistics for different positions within each field Up-to-date professional and Internet resourceshttp://ifile.it/zeg46tw/0071545336.rar
The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence
By Professor James Bernard Murphy
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-09-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0300107889
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780300107883
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In this first book-length study of positive law, James Bernard Murphy rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a fundamental continuity among four great legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, and John Austin. In their theories of positive law, Murphy argues, these thinkers represent successive chapters in a single fascinating story. That story revolves around a fundamental ambiguity: is law positive because it is deliberately imposed (as opposed to customary law) or because it lacks moral necessity (as opposed to natural law)? These two senses of positive law are not coextensive yet the discourse of positive law oscillates unstably between them. What, then, is the relation between being deliberately imposed and lacking moral necessity? Murphy demonstrates how the discourse of positive law incorporates both normative and descriptive dimensions of law, and he discusses the relation of positive law not only to jurisprudence but also to the philosophy of language, ethics, theories of social order, and biblical law.
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Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Channelling the Legal Information Flood - Volume 188 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
By J. Breuker
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Publisher:IOS Press
Number Of Pages:252
Publication Date:2009-01-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1586039423
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781586039424
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Product Description:
This book about legal ontologies and Semantic Web applications has its roots in workshops and conferences on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Law. The domain of law belongs to the early adopters of ontologies and semantic web technology to support its enormous and fast growing demand for effective information management; it is probably only surpassed in this respect by the bio-sciences. Having easy access to relevant legal information among the rising flood of legal documentation is not only the concern of legal practitioners. The life and work of citizens becomes more and more entangled with legal issues as well. This volume reflects the wisdom abstracted from experiences accumulated over more than a decade of research and development in this area. It contains a representative overview of the state-of-the-art, covering both theoretical aspects and practical systems. The latter has been an important driver of research in this area, which can be observed from the geographical origins: the work discussed is mainly European, due to R&D initiatives of the European Commission in the various Framework programs. The Semantic Web is not only an area of research, but also a world wide project where easy-to-construct applications can directly find their communities of users. However, the semantics that are the engines for these applications are still the bottleneck in the development. Therefore one finds a large range of technologies and tricks to populate ontologies with machine understandable meaning of terms in this volume. This varies from the use of top-ontologies via design patterns to extraction of terms from text and alignment of existing terminologies. In fact, one may see this book not so much as the report of results of research, but rather as a specification of the elements of an emerging methodology for developing legal ontologies.
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The Law of Healthcare Administration
By J. Stuart Showalter
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Publisher:Health Administration Press
Number Of Pages:511
Publication Date:2007-09-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1567939570
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781567939576
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Product Description:
Now in its fifth edition, The Law of Healthcare Administration continues to examine the legal aspects of healthcare from a management perspective. Using plain language, the book is a comprehensive treatment of health law in the United States, addressing topics from the basic structure of the court system to the general legal responsibilities of healthcare organizations to the specific liabilities inherent in the provision of care. Legal concepts in the book are supported by examples from actual court decisions.
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Legal Rights, 5th Ed.: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
By National Association of the Deaf
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Publisher:Gallaudet University Press
Number Of Pages:264
Publication Date:2000-05-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1563680912
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781563680915
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Crime and Human Rights, Volume 9 (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance)
By Stephen Parmentier
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Publisher:JAI Press
Number Of Pages:256
Publication Date:2007-10-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0762313064
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780762313068
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Over the past decades, human rights have gained an increasing significance in law, politics and society, at the national and the international level. According to the American scholar Louis Henkin, human rights have become the paradigm of our time, thereby displacing previous paradigms such as religion and socialism. The criminal justice system has not been immune to this rapid rise of human rights. In the past two decades, considerable attention has been paid to the rules of due process for suspects and offenders, during criminal proceedings and in situations of detention. In recent years, the rights of victims have gained more weight in the criminal justice system, also in international tribunals and courts. Moreover, the principles and norms of human rights have received wide attention in conceptualizing crime and delinquency. Some crimes, e.g. trafficking in human beings or violence against women and children, are now defined in terms of human rights violations. The same is true with gross and systematic human rights violations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity. This volume wishes to address these major developments in a systematic way, from the perspective of criminology and sociology, by way of original contributions. In the first part, we look at several types of crimes, old and new, from the angle of human rights and human rights violations, while the second part sketches the influence of the human rights paradigm on some parts of the justice system in North America, Europe and elsewhere. This volume is addressed to students and researchers in criminology and criminal justice studies, and to professionals and policy-makers in the criminal justice system, primarily but not exclusively in North America and Europe.
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Land, Law and Islam: Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World
By Siraj Sait, Hilary Lim
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Publisher:Zed Books
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:2006-12-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1842778102
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781842778104
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Product Description:
In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the "webs of tenure" prevalent in the Muslim societies. They consider the possibilities with Islamic legal and human rights systems for the development of inclusive, pro-poor and innovative approaches to land rights. They also focus on Muslim women's rights to property and inheritance systems. Engaging with institutions such as the Islamic endowment (waqf) and principles of Islamic microfinance, they test the workability of "authentic" Islamic proposals. Located in human rights as well as Islamic debates, this study offers a well researched and constructive appraisal of property and land rights in the Muslim world.
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Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law
By Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:224
Publication Date:2008-11-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195371208
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195371208
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Judgement Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution? Our Constitution contains a great deal of language that is vague, broad, or ambiguous, making its meaning uncertain. Many people believe this uncertainty allows judges too much discretion. They suggest that constitutional adjudication is just politics in disguise, and that judges are legislators in robes who read the Constitution in accordance with their own political views. Some think that political decision making by judges is inevitable, and others think it can be restrained by "strict constructionist" theories like textualism or originalism. But at bottom, both sorts of thinkers believe that judging has to be either tightly constrained and inflexible or purely political and unfettered: There is, they argue, no middle ground.
Farber and Sherry disagree, and in this book they describe and defend that middle ground. They show how judging can be--and often is--both principled and flexible. In other words, they attempt to reconcile the democratic rule of law with the recognition that judges have discretion. They explain how judicial discretion can be exercised responsibly, describe the existing constraints that guide and cabin such discretion, and suggest improvements.
In exploring how constitutional adjudication works in practice (and how it can be made better), Farber and Sherry cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to their thesis and also independently important, including judicial opinion-writing, the use of precedent, the judicial selection process, the structure of the American judiciary, and the nature of legal education. They conclude with a careful look at how the Supreme Court has treated three of the most significant and sensitive constitutional issues: terrorism, abortion, and affirmative action. Timely, trenchant, and carefully argued, Judgment Calls is a welcome addition to the literature on the intersection of constitutional interpretation and American politics.
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Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Amparo Proceedings
By Allan R. Brewer-Carías
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:448
Publication Date:2008-12-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521492025
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521492027
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Product Description:
Together with the expansive process of human rights constitutional declarations, in addition to the writ of habeas corpus and of habeas data, Latin American constitutions created a specific judicial remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, known as the suit, action, recourse, or writ of amparo. After spreading throughout Latin America, it was incorporated in the American Convention of Human Rights. It is similar to the "injunctions" and the other equitable remedies of the United States legal system. This book examines, with a comparative constitutional law approach, the most recent trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding. It is an up-to-date abridged version of the course of lectures the author gave at the Columbia Law School analyzing the regulations of the seventeen amparo statutes in force in Latin America, as well as the regulation on the amparo guarantee established in Article 25 of the American Convention of Human Rights.
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Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
By Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky, Clifford Shearing
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:332
Publication Date:2008-11-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN:052149351X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521493512
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Product Description:
Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a wide variety of external institutions and individuals operating in both public and private capacities, police organisations have risen to this challenge. Indeed, police organisations are increasingly operating within a business paradigm. But what are the benefits of these relationships and the nature of the risks that might accompany reliance upon them? This book examines these new modes of exchange between police and 'outsiders' and explores how far these relationships can be taken before certain fundamental values - equity in the distribution of policing, cost-effectiveness in the delivery of police services, and the legitimacy of the police institution itself - are placed in jeopardy.
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The State Immunity Controversy in International Law: Private Suits Against Sovereign States in Domestic Courts
By Ernest K. Bankas
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Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:541
Publication Date:2005-08-22
ISBN-10 / ASIN:3540256954
ISBN-13 / EAN:9783540256953
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Product Description:
The author shows through a careful analysis of the law that restrictive immunity does not have vox populi in developing countries, and that it lacks usus. He also argues that forum law, i.e. the lex fori is a creature of sovereignty and between equals before the law, only what is understood and acknowledged as law among states must be applied in as much as the international legal system is horizontal.
Furthermore, the state never acts as a juridical or natural person and, therefore, in logical terms, its functions cannot be divided into potere politico and persona civile, as a prelude to determine jurisdiction. The said Italian doctrine therefore is ex facie erroneous, and that a simple dichotomy between absolute immunity and restrictive immunity wholly predicated on the nature test alone would not be helpful in promoting justice. Hence, arbitration and comparative dominant theory are suggested instead in the resolution of this elusive problem.
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Reputation, Celebrity and Defamation Law
By David Rolph
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Publisher:Ashgate
Number Of Pages:244
Publication Date:2008-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0754671240
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780754671244
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Using Robert Post's seminal article 'The Social Foundations of Reputation and the Constitution' as a starting point, this book argues that the concept of reputation changes historically, reflecting social, political, economic, cultural and technological changes. It also suggests that the value of a good reputation is not immutable and analyses the history and doctrines of defamation law in the US and the UK. Concepts of defamation law are illustrated via case studies from recent Australian defamation law which give general insight into the nature of particular concepts of reputation. Leading on from the case studies and drawing on approaches to celebrity in media and cultural studies, the author conceptualises reputation as a media construct and demonstrates that reputation as celebrity is of great contemporary relevance at this point in the history of defamation law.
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