Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 1996
Keywords
Law in mass media, Freedom of the press
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law | Law and Society | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Legal Profession
Abstract
Drawing on recent high profile cases in Canada and the United States, the author examines the different extent to which lawyers in those two countries comment to the media about ongoing litigation. He investigates various formal constraints upon lawyer comment, such as court-imposed publication bans and rules of professional responsibility. He also looks at the way in which lawyer behavior is attributable to non-formal, cultural determinants.
Recommended Citation
Wolfram, Charles W., "Lights, Camera, Litigate: Lawyers and the Media in Canada and the United States" (1996). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 1280.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1280
Publication Citation
Published in: Dalhousie Law Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (Fall 1996).
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