Truth and Privilege

Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840

AvLyndsay Campbell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common law's diverging paths in two kindred places committed to freedom of expression but separated by the American Revolution. Comparing Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, Lyndsay Campbell examines the development of libel law, the defences of truth and privilege, and the place of courts as fora for disputes. She contrasts courts' centrality in struggles over expression and the interpretation of individual rights in Massachusetts with concerns about defining protective boundaries for the press and individuals through institutional design in Nova Scotia. Campbell's rich analysis acts as a lens through which to understand the role of law in shaping societal change in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the essential question we still grapple with today: what should law's role be in regulating expression we perceive as harmful?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-16
Mått:159 x 236 x 36 mm
Vikt:882 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Legal History
Antal sidor:492
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316510698

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Lyndsay Campbell is an Associate Professor in Law and History at the University of Calgary, and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Law. She has co-edited two volumes, Freedom's Conditions in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation and Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back.

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'A fascinating comparison of two sister polities with shared legal inheritances, separated by a revolution. Campbell's brilliant study tells a marvellous tale of how Nova Scotia and Massachusetts each struggled to define freedom of expression through law while debates over temperance, religion, science, sexual morality, patriarchy, abolition, and governance swirled around them.' Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables; Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Common Law's Diverging Paths; 3. The Transformation of Privilege; 4. Truth, Privacy and Authority; 5. The Individual Conscience and Blasphemous and Obscene Expression; 6. Private Defamation Suits: Courts in Everyday Life; 7. Conclusion.