Open AccessJurisdiction and Choice of Law Issues in Multistate Defamation on the Internet
Author(s) -
Matthew E. Castel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr61
Subject(s) - choice of law , jurisdiction , predictability , law , the internet , tourism , business , political science , law and economics , economics , computer science , mathematics , statistics , world wide web
The author maintains that the connecting factors for jurisdiction and choice of law in Internet defamation actions brought in Canada should be separately defined to address the problems of libel tourism and predictability of legal consequences.