Regulating for Responsibility: Reputation and Social Media

The framework brought forward by the United Kingdom's Defamation Act 2013 underlines a traditional hierarchy of expression in which news media are viewed as high-level speech. Although of a different form, social media are a dominant means of expression. The current study explores the rationale for a more robust and forceful discussion of responsibility in speech on social media platforms. The underlying premise here is that speech should be viewed as a qualified good and that a more appropriate paradigm is one found in the phrase ‘freedom to participate’

Law Reporting, Authority and Precedent: the Common Law Paradigm

This paper traces the development of law reporting in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, hand in hand with the crystallisation of a doctrine of authoritative precedent related to the printing of law reports.</p