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10 Comm. Law. 1 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/comlaw10 and id is 1 raw text is: Communications CPublication of the Forum on Communications Law American Bar Association Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 1992 w W, Libel Law Reform: Necessary or Not? In the following OUTLOOK column, Professor David Anderson explores the shortcomings and strengths of the existing system of libel law in the United States and Dean Randall Bezanson (in comments excerpted from an address made to the Libel Defense Resource Center) considers the pros and cons of modifying this system through uniform libel legislation. Who Needs Libel Reform? BY DAVID ANDERSON* Libel law.should be reformed only if it doesn't work. Eveyone agrees this area of the law is a mess, but ugliness isn't a sufficient reason to throw out a body of law that has been 700 years in the making. If it works reasonably well-or no worse than the pro- Continued on page 15 Legislative Reform and Libel Law BY RANDALL P. BEZANSON* I am flattered to have been asked to address the question of legislative reform of libel law before this distinguished group. I might ordinarily have also said that it is a pleasure to be here, but perhaps a meas- ure of caution is warranted on that score. I suspect Continued on page 18 Illustration by Richard Laurent

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