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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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14. Defamation

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter presents the tort of defamation. The tort is divided into two causes of action: libel, which concerns communications in permanent form; and slander, which concerns communications in transitory form. Libel has been actionable without proof of
Carol Brennan
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Comparative privacy and defamation

open access: yes, 2020
Providing comparative analysis that examines both Western and non-Western legal systems, this wide-ranging Handbook expands and enriches the existing privacy and defamation law literature and addresses the fundamental issues facing today's scholars and ...
Wragg, Paul, Koltay, András 1978-
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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A Comparative Analysis of Defamation Law in the United States and Thailand’s Lèse–Majesté Law: Lessons from the Land of Smiles (But Where the King Never Smiles)

open access: yesGerman Law Journal
The United States’ free speech regime, as codified in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, comes with obvious contrasts to Thailand’s ill-famed lèse–majesté law—Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code—which prohibits defamation or even ...
Christian Addams Kelling
doaj   +1 more source

Defamation Per Se: Defamation by Mistake? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Defamation is a complicated tort, due in part to the differing rules that govern libel and slander, the two branches of the tort. The focus of this essay is on “defamation per se,” its origins in Minnesota, and the consequences of its misapplication. The
Steenson, Michael K.
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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KETIDAKJELASAN BATAS KERUGIAN DARI TINDAK PIDANA PENGHINAAN

open access: yesJustitia Et Pax
The research aims to analyze the harm limits of defamation offenses that shall be criminalized. The research analyzes four court decisions. In those court decisions, the defendants are punished with mild punishment (under 1 year imprisonment) using ...
Vidya Prahassacitta   +1 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

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