Product Description Featuring all-new coverage and a convenient new two-volume looseleaf format, here's today's authoritative, up-to-date guide through the labyrinth of defamation law. Now expanded to more than 1,400 pages of definitive legal, tactical, and strategic insight into libel, slander, and related causes of action, the new Third Edition of Sack on Defamation reaffirms this treatise's position as "the standard text in the field against which all others must be judged" (Floyd Abrams, Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel, New York City). Citing thousands of cases, the work takes you securely through this complex field, from its common law and constitutional foundations ... to the more recent influential case law ... to the crucial and often confusing splits of judicial authority. Designed for judges, teachers, journalists, and lawyers on both sides of the table, Sack on Defamation helps practitioners and their clients:. Ensure written and oral communications are less likely to result in suit.. Avoid or limit lawsuits by issuing retractions and taking other mitigating steps.. Persuade judges to dismiss complaints or grant summary judgments. Review "Judge Robert Sack is the leading expert on the Law of Defamation. His book is, or should be at the elbow of every lawyer who practices media law. --James C. Goodale, Debevoise & Plimpton [Sack on Defamation] is a wonderful book. --Michael Gartner, former President of NBC News and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist About the Author Robert D. Sack has since 1998 been a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. During his thirty-three years in practice, he specialized in national and international press law. He was a frequent lecturer and writer on press law topics and participated in the Practising Law Institute's Communications Law programs from their inception in 1973 until he took the bench.