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Description
Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased’s interests should be protected
This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question—can you libel or slander the dead?—and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes—and what differences it doesn’t—and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.
ISBN
9780300221541
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
City
New Haven, CT
Keywords
defamation, death and dying
Disciplines
Torts
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Herzog, Don. Defaming the Dead. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2017.
Comments
An online version of this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License through Michigan Publishing, the digital publishing arm of the University of Michigan Library. It can be accessed at http://hdl .handle.net/2027.42/118195.