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Irony in Court: Marina v. Romania

August 17, 2020

By Dr Alberto Godioli* Introduction Due to its inherent link with elusiveness and ambiguity, humour makes it particularly difficult to draw a line between lawful and unlawful expression. The task of assessing the harm in a joke is notoriously complicated by strategies such as exaggeration, distortion or irony, which are typical of humorous expression in […]