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Professsor Yonathan Arbel’s Articles Accepted into UC Irvine, North Carolina, and Harvard Law Journals

Professor Yonathan Arbel, University of Alabama School of LawProfessor Yonathan Arbel recently has had multiple articles accepted into prominent law journals.

A Status Theory of Defamation Law has been accepted into the UC Irvine Law Review. This article demonstrates that a status theory of defamation law offers a more appealing framework—descriptively, functionally, and normatively—than the current menu of explanatory options. Read the forthcoming piece on SSRN.

Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News was co-authored with Mike Gilbert and was accepted into the North Carolina Law Review. It analyzes if truth bounties can outperform content moderation, censorship, and other proposed systems of information regulation. Read the forthcoming piece on SSRN.

On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts, which explores the emergence of new contracting techniques enabled by AI and communication technology, has been accepted into the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.