Walled Garden

Law and Privacy in Modern Society

AvLawrence M. Friedman,Joanna L. Grossman

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Privacy, in human history, is a relatively recent concept. Nobody had much privacy in the Middle Ages. Even kings and queens lacked privacy: it was an age when crowds watched a queen give birth, and the king received visitors while on the chamber pot. Technology and concepts of privacy grew up together—as both friends and enemies. For example, the late 19th century invention of the candid camera made it possible, for the first time, to take someone’s picture without that person’s consent. This fact was in the background of the classic article by Warren and Brandeis that launched the right of privacy. Today, we have smart phones with cameras, selfies, the Internet, surveillance cameras, and tools that can look through walls, smell through walls, see through walls. Dangers to privacy have multiplied enormously, and we have only just begin figuring how to handle the change.This book is timely as our basic understandings of privacy are challenged by modern technology, changing social mores, and evolving legal understandings that both reflect and reinforce underlying changes in society. It is likely to be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students, scholars, and potentially other professionals with an interest in law and social norms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-19
Mått:150 x 228 x 27 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538162316

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Mer om författaren

Lawrence M. Friedman is the Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author of more than forty books and is the most-cited legal historian in the United States.Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is the author of nine books, including Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace.

Recensioner i media

In this book, Friedman and Grossman sketch the historical development of the concept of privacy and the issues now surrounding it. The premise of this book is that privacy is a social construct—one that is relatively recent and would have been incomprehensible in earlier societies…. All in all, this book sheds light on a part of liberal societies that is both hotly contested and taken for granted.Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part I: Mandatory PrivacyChapter 1: The Tiger’s Cage Chapter 2: Aesthetics and the BodyChapter 3: Speak No Evil, See No Evil: Forbidden Words and Speech Chapter 4: The Privilege of Silence Part II: Elective PrivacyChapter 5: I Want to Be Alone: Privacy and ChoiceChapter 6: They Led Two Lives Chapter 7: In the Closet Chapter 8: The Eyes that Never Sleep: Surveillance and SocietyPart III: The Flight from PrivacyChapter 9: Public and Private: Celebrities and the Rest of UsChapter 10: Privacy in the Modern Age