Suing teachers for poor grades? What a novel idea!
Steve Denning/February 21, 2011
In a bizarre story in The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that a court in Paris will shortly decide whether a law professor in New York committed criminal libel by publishing a book review.
He notes that the review, which is only four paragraphs long, is measured and academic in tone.
Moreoever “France is an odd place to adjudicate a claim concerning a review written in English by a German professor of a book written in English by an author living in Israel. The book was, moreover, published by a Dutch firm. The review was published on a Web site in New York. True, Ms. Calvo-Goller is a French citizen. But still.”
What’s next? Students suing their teachers for poor grades? Commenters in Amazon being sued for their less-than-five-star review?
He notes that the review, which is only four paragraphs long, is measured and academic in tone.
Moreoever “France is an odd place to adjudicate a claim concerning a review written in English by a German professor of a book written in English by an author living in Israel. The book was, moreover, published by a Dutch firm. The review was published on a Web site in New York. True, Ms. Calvo-Goller is a French citizen. But still.”
What’s next? Students suing their teachers for poor grades? Commenters in Amazon being sued for their less-than-five-star review?
Palace de Justice near Paris
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