Defamation: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives

March 4, 2022
UCI Law, EDU 1111
Streamed on Zoom

Time Details
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
Dean Tyrus Miller, Jeffrey Helmreich & Kenneth Simons
9:30 - 11:00 Panel 1
Collin O’Neil, Defamation Law, Non-Asserted Content, and Freedom of Expression
David Sussman, Adding Injury to Insult? Kant on the Right to a Good Name
Chair: Allison Koslow
11:10 - 12:10 Panel 2
Jeffrey Helmreich, True Defamation
Chair: Dana Lee
12:10 - 1:20 Lunch
1:20 - 2:50 Panel 3
Kenneth Simons, Defamatory in Whose Eyes?
Benjamin Zipursky, Reputation and Reputational Injury: Some Philosophical and Legal Preliminaries
Chair: Aaron James
3:00 - 4:30 Panel 4
Lyrissa Lidsky, Restating Defamation Law for the Twenty-First Century
Eugene Volokh, Criminal Libel: Survival and Revival
Chair: Robert Post
4:40 - 5:20 Concluding Discussion

Contact

Rabie Kadri
Law Centers Manager
centers@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-2370