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Nonetheless, one of the major advantages for the professors in the Experimental Section--Michelman, Rakoff, Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz Frankfurter Professor of Constitutional and Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson--is that they "get to work more closely with colleagues," says Rakoff...
...Nesson: And when somebody sues your newspaper and says you got it wrong (laughter), let's have your source. You'd be happy to admit the libel judgement and pay a huge amount of money...
Crimson: Professor Nesson...
...Nesson: I'm a great fan of the American press. I think that, yes, there's an impression of arrogance, but I don't really think that it comes from things that I would want to see the press change doing. The place where I see that some progress in possible is in a funny little corner of this, which is in the press' relationship with the judiciary. We're talking libel cases. They're court cases. They are cases that are supervised by judges, and so the judges become a peculiarly important audience. And if the judges have...
...Nesson: Of course it depends on how the decision comes down. I personally will be truly dissapointed if the media organizations lose either one of those cases. I think either one of them has the potential for real mischief if the case is lost And when I say lose, I mean lose big I'm not talking about a one-dollar award to either one of those plaintiffs I'm talking about an award that's measured in the millions of dollars. That would turn on a green light for more litigants and more lawyers to jump into a public...