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Libel Reform: An Appraisal, C. Thomas Dienes
Libel Reform: An Appraisal, C. Thomas Dienes
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Today, I am going to talk about the law of libel. A major part of my work at U.S. News is prepublication review of U.S. News and World Report and The Atlantic. I make difficult decisions such as assessing the risk that the Ayatollah Khomeini might sue the magazine for libel. I am not sure if you can libel the Ayatollah, but be careful if you do-he has very potent remedies. I will not focus on the law of libel as it is practiced in Michigan or in other states today. Instead, I want to examine proposals for the …
Misreading The Williams Act, Lyman Johnson, David Millon
Misreading The Williams Act, Lyman Johnson, David Millon
Michigan Law Review
This Article examines the emerging controversy over preemption of the most potent of recent antitakeover laws, the so-called business combination statutes recently passed by Delaware, New York, and other states, and Pennsylvania's director-approval statute. After examining the strategy employed by the states to shield these statutes from constitutional attack, we consider the issues raised by the preemption claim and the arguments currently being advanced by the SEC and others in favor of preemption. Resolving the preemption controversy requires inquiry into the original meaning and objectives of the Williams Act. We argue that this should involve attention not only to the …
Perestroika, Glasnost And Law Reform In The Soviet Union Today, V K. Zabigailo
Perestroika, Glasnost And Law Reform In The Soviet Union Today, V K. Zabigailo
Dalhousie Law Journal
Three years have passed since the elaboration, on the initiative of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, of a new strategy of action for Soviet society - the acceleration of the country's social-economic development. Today this strategy is finding wide implementation in the policy of perestroika, the revolutionary renewal of society and profound changes in every sphere of its life - political, economical, social and spiritual. Formulated at the April Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985 and the 27th Party Congress in 1986, the concept ofperestroika is based on …
Copyright Legislation And Technological Change, Jessica D. Litman
Copyright Legislation And Technological Change, Jessica D. Litman
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Throughout its history, copyright law has had difficulty accommodating technological change. Although the substance of copyright legislation in this century has evolved from meetings among industry representatives whose avowed purpose was to draft legislation that provided for the future,6 the resulting statutes have done so poorly. The language of copyright statutes has been phrased in fact-specific language that has grown obsolete as new modes and mediums of copyrightable expression have developed. Whatever copyright statute has been on the books has been routinely, and justifiably, criticized as outmoded.7 In this Article, I suggest that the nature of the legislative process we …
At-Will Employment: An Overview, Theodore J. St. Antoine
At-Will Employment: An Overview, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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The most dramatic development of the last decade has been the rapid judicial expansion of modifications in at-will employment doctrine.