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Coors on the Assessment of Libel Damages in Germany

By Media Law Prof Blog

Corinna Coors, University of West London, Ealing Law School, is publishing Restoring Lost Honour: The Assessment of Libel Damages in Germany in volume 4 of the Entertainment Law Review (2016). Here is the abstract.

This article critically highlights the effectiveness of the German civil tort of defamation and its remedies. It considers the development and level of immaterial damages in Germany with respect to the infringement of an individual’s personality right, analysing the significance of the recent Kachelmann case, where the highest ever compensation of 635,000 EUR in damages for pain and suffering for a defamation suit was awarded.

The full text is not available from SSRN.