Truth and Privilege

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-01789-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Reihe: Studies in Legal History

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Lyndsay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Campbell, Lyndsay
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.