Update: French court tosses “book review defamation” case

by Walter Olson on March 5, 2011

According to Prof. Joseph Weiler’s website, a tribunal in France has not only dismissed the criminal libel complaint that Prof. Karin Calvo-Goller filed against him, but has imposed a monetary penalty on the complainant for abuse of process. The dispute arose over a negative book review in an academic journal Weiler edits (earlier here, here, etc.).

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1 Smart Dude 03.06.11 at 12:19 am

Some Euro-Justice we could actually emulate.

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