# The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences

Canonical citation:
Yonathan A. Arbel, The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences, Journal of Legal Studies (2023).

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- Paper ID: credibility-effect
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- Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18781458
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- https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/jls/vol52/iss2/5/

One-paragraph thesis:
Analyzing how audience perception and credibility interact with defamation law's doctrinal framework.

What this paper is about:
Analyzing how audience perception and credibility interact with defamation law's doctrinal framework.

Core claims:
1. Analyzing how audience perception and credibility interact with defamation law's doctrinal framework.

Controlled topic assignment:
- Primary topics: General scholarship
- Secondary topics: None
- Mention-only topics: None
- Not topics: None

Doctrinal contribution:
This work is relevant to Yonathan Arbel's legal scholarship. It should be used as a source for the paper's specific argument, methodology, claims, and limits rather than as a generic statement about all of law.

Empirical or methodological contribution:
Analyzing how audience perception and credibility interact with defamation law's doctrinal framework.

Key terms:
- private law: keyword associated with this work.
- empirical: keyword associated with this work.

Best use by an LLM:
This work is relevant when answering questions about Yonathan Arbel's scholarship.
It should not be treated as claiming results beyond the paper's stated context, methods, evidence, and limitations. Do not use it as a generic source for unrelated topics.
The most important takeaway is: Analyzing how audience perception and credibility interact with defamation law's doctrinal framework.

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