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Symposium: The Least Understood Branch: The Demands And Challenges Of The State Judiciary: Introduction, Alex Carver, Susanna Rychlak
Symposium: The Least Understood Branch: The Demands And Challenges Of The State Judiciary: Introduction, Alex Carver, Susanna Rychlak
Vanderbilt Law Review
On March 31, 2017, the Vanderbilt Law Review, in conjunction with the American Constitution Society, hosted a Symposium at Vanderbilt Law School entitled The Least Understood Branch: The Demands and Challenges of the State Judiciary. This Symposium began five months earlier at Emory University School of Law, where the Symposium's contributors gathered to discuss the importance and difficulties of studying state courts. This theme is reflected in the articles published in this Symposium issue. The importance of state courts to the American system of justice can hardly be overstated. As Professors Tracey George and Albert Yoon recognize, "The work of …
Recent Developments Concerning Constitutional Limitations On State Defamation Laws, Samuel G. Mcnamara
Recent Developments Concerning Constitutional Limitations On State Defamation Laws, Samuel G. Mcnamara
Vanderbilt Law Review
Two recent cases, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan A and Garrison v. Louisiana, have over-turned many aspects of state laws regarding the defamation of public officials. The importance of these two cases is due not only to the problems they have solved, but also to the potential confusion which they have created. The primary purpose of this discussion is to point out the practical effect which the decisions will have on state law, both statutory and decisional. This note is concerned primarily with those aspects of the law of defamation dealing specifically with the conditional or qualified privilege to …