Privacy Law

Course Number:Law 334
Hours:3
Course Type:Upper-Level
Writing Requirement:Rigorous Writing Experience (RWE)
Skills Requirement?:No
Final Exam?:No
Description:

This seminar introduces privacy law and allows students to explore values and issues that link privacy across many areas of law. The class will consider definitional and philosophical perspectives on privacy interests and privacy law and will compare common law, statutory and constitutional approaches to privacy protection. Students will examine examples of privacy law development in information and decisional privacy areas involving topics such as media, health, criminal investigation, anonymity, the workplace, public records, consumer behavior, and various aspects of personal autonomy. Students take a leading role in shaping the content through selection of paper topics and related reading.

Instructor(s):A. Klinefelter
Semester(s):Fall


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