In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky of Baker & McKenzie discuss how the SPEECH Act provides protection for authors and publishers against libel tourism.

“Libel tourism” sounds like it refers to something like an egregious defamation of the Queen Mary II, but in the eyes of Congress, it is a First Amendment threat. It was a problem deemed urgent enough ...

Clifford D. May has an article sounding the alarm on the main site, and trumpeting the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008. Obviously, this is an issue of concern for academics, especially those who ...

ARTICLE 19 welcomes a High Court decision to dismiss the defamation claim brought by the Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash against the "Kyiv Post", an independent Ukrainian newspaper. (ARTICLE ...

When the College Art Association decided recently to settle rather than fight a possible libel action in Britain over a book review published in one of its journals, it reminded American authors and ...

From the Summer 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Developments that could protect American writers… From the Summer 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Developments that ...

A More Nuanced Analysis of AI’s Effect on Jobs Does Iran Still Control the Strait of Hormuz? Audio By Carbonatix Corner readers may remember the chilling Alms for Jihad scandal of this past summer. In ...

A Saudi Arabian sheikh and a Ukrainian businessman may be among the last of the so-called libel tourists in the U.K. The government may rewrite defamation laws that currently allow a non-citizen to ...