March 2022

Chapter 5: English Libel Law and the SPEECH Act: A Comparative Perspective

By Dave Heller and Katharine Larsen

PUBLISHED IN: New York Times v. Sullivan: The Case for Preserving an Essential Precedent

TOPICS : Defamation

The modest purpose of this overview is to shed light on an overseas branch of our “legal family tree”—and perhaps glimpse at what our branch could suffer were we to abandon Sullivan.

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