editor sued for running a negative book review
A journal editor has been sued for running a negative book review. The book’s author, a law professor, says that the review was “defamatory and [asked] for it to be taken down,” specifically because it could “cause harm to her professional reputation and academic promotion.”
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January 29, 2011 at 7:41 am
Stigler was wrong!
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teageegeepea
January 29, 2011 at 8:27 am
Revealing that that she’s a childish, thin-skinned wacko has probably already caused enough “harm to her professional reputation and [prospects for] academic promotion.”
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Omar
January 29, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Someone needs to explain to her what a reputation is and how it is formed…
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jpferguson
January 29, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Dear ASR editors,
Please find enclosed my manuscript “The Best Paper Ever” for your consideration for possible publication in ASR. The paper is just, well, the best paper ever. I believe that (friend number 1, friend number 2, friend number 3) would make appropriate reviewers for this manuscript.
Please be advised that in the case of a negative decision (e.g. anything short of a conditional acceptance in the first round), you will be hearing from my attorneys.
Sincerely,
Omar Lizardo.
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Omar
January 29, 2011 at 5:01 pm
the link is worth following as it makes clear how the defendant is heroically bracketing the most obvious grounds for a defense victory (jurisdiction and truth) in order to establish a precedent tilting the case law in favor of free speech (as is already the standard in American case law on libel).
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gabrielrossman
January 29, 2011 at 7:40 pm
If this case goes through, then we need to start watching the tone of some of our posts.
On a related note — a couple years ago, maybe three, we got called out, by some Florida company, about our use of “reputational capital” (or something to that effect — apparently they had trademarked it).
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teppo
January 29, 2011 at 11:58 pm
> use of “reputational capital”
how many pages of Bourdieu did you have to read through before you found proof of prior art?
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gabrielrossman
January 30, 2011 at 3:26 am
It’s a good thing nothing like this ever happens in organization studies.
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Thomas
January 30, 2011 at 10:16 am