Truth and Privilege - Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of California, Berkeley, 2009) issued under title: Truths and consequences: the legal and extralegal regulation of expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lyndsay Campbell, Lyndsay (University of Calgary) Campbell
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781316510698
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51069-8
• Pages: 442
• Thème: Studies in Legal History
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas