Legally speaking: libel and slander on the Internet

Applying the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to computerized communication of information is raising many interesting questions. While the general principle of this amendment can be simply stated—it forbids the government from interfering with ...

This column will discuss why the law has traditionally resisted characterizing information as the sort of thing that can be private property, and will speculate about why judges may be more receptive nowadays to assertions that information should be ...

This paper aims to contribute to the discussion about the jurisdiction of Australian courts in the context of international or transnational defamation. The paper questions the appropriateness of the rules informing in personam jurisdiction of Federal, ...