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

Joseph Weiler, law professor at NYU and editor in chief of the European Journal of International Law, faces trial in a French criminal court in June on libel charges, after refusing to purge an academic book review.  Weiler is being sued by Karin Calvo-Goller, a senior lecturer at the Academic Centre of Law and Business in Israel, for a review of her book, The Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal Court, that was published on the Web site in 2007.  For more details see this Chronicle of Higher Education article that was published on February 25, 2010 and this blog entry.

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