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NYU Professor Faces Libel Lawsuit in France for Refusing to Purge Negative Book Review.

The review is not, as scholarly reviews go, even that vitriolic.

And, on more reviewing weird stuff, The professor, his wife, and the secret, savage book reviews on Amazon (should anyone not have encountered this already).

Comments

[holyschist]

I just don't understand how bad reviews are actionable!

[ajnabieh]

Via the law of Special Snowflake, I believe.

(I think the actual problem may lie in the content of libel law in France. I saw a Language Log post on this...er, here.)

[holyschist]

It's all rather worrisome if any country's libel law can be used like this.