The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World

Edited by Meital Pinto, Senior Lecturer of Public Law and Legal Theory, Law School, Zefat Academic College; Law Faculty, Ono Academic College and Guy Seidman, Professor of Law, Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University, Israel

Contents:

Preface xi

PART I WHAT IS SHAMING? DEFINING THE
CONCEPT AND ITS LIMITS
1 Introduction: Shaming – Definition, Historical Origins
and Contemporary Proliferation of an Elusive Concept 2
Meital Pinto and Guy Seidman
2 Shaming: Should Law Treat it as the Staining of Honor, or
as an Offense to Human Dignity and Respect? 28
Orit Kamir
3 Internal Cultural Outcasting as a Means of Enforcing
Cultural Norms 56
Gershon Gontovnik

PART II SHAMING AND REPUTATION
4 When Does Corporate Shaming Translate into
Reputational Fallouts? 79
Roy Shapira
5 Sharing “Bad Shaming” on Social Networks 101
Michal Lavi

PART III SHAMING FROM THE LEGAL PROCESS PERSPECTIVE
6 The Process is the Shaming: Criminal Procedure vs.
Human Dignity 129
Asaf Harduf
7 Judicial Shaming 151
Guy Seidman and Matan Szatmary
8 Shaming in Family Disputes Terminating in Divorce:
Exploiting Parental Alienation 174
Daniella Assaraf

PART IV REGULATORY SHAMING
9 Shaming and the Environmental Arena 200
Shirley Naveh
10 Government Regulation by Eco-Shaming Corporations:
Balancing Effectiveness and Fairness 225
Sharon Yadin
11 Shaming by Bank Regulators: Methods and Applications 249
Ruth Plato-Shinar
12 Shaming Under the Cover of Tax Law in Anglo-American
Jurisdictions 272
Limor Riza

Index 294