July 4, 2008
'Libel Tourism' Puts British and American Defamation Standards in the Spotlight
When the College Art Association decided recently to settle rather than fight a possible libel action in Britain over a book review published in one of its journals, it reminded American authors and publishers how wide a gulf separates the United States — where First Amendment protections and jurisprudence make libel difficult to prove — from most of the rest of the world, where the protection of reputations and public sensibilities trumps the right to say what one
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