A thorough introduction to privacy law, covering landmark cases,
important themes, historical curiosities, and enduring
controversies. The Right to Privacy: Rights and Liberties under the
Law measures the impact of what Louis Brandeis called, "The most
comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized man." As
the book shows, an individual's right to privacy is not a
written-in-stone concept, but one that emerged from the "shadows"
of a number of amendments and court decisions. The book traces that
concept to its philosophical and common law roots, then looks at
how privacy rights have been interpreted, expanded, and sometimes
curtailed throughout the 20th century. It concludes with a review
of privacy rights today, examining landmark recent cases involving
euthanasia, polygamy, reproductive rights for inmates, same-sex
unions, adoption by gays and lesbians, the right to withhold
personal information, and more. A source materials section
consisting of critical primary documents, court decisions,
statutory provisions, etc., reprinted in excerpted form and
preceded by brief headnotes explaining the significance and
background of the reproduced material A background reference
section-alphabetically arranged entries, combining scholarship with
insight, on important people, laws, events, legal issues,
constitutional issues, judicial decisions, statutes, places,
institutions, offices, organizations, terms, and concepts that are
central to understanding the right to privacy
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