Privacy Law

Catalog description

This course covers laws relating to the privacy of personal information, ranging from the traditional privacy torts to sectoral statutes to FTC actions. There will be some coverage of surveillance law and checks on the government, but the focus of the course is on laws relating to private parties. In addition to U.S. law, the course will also examine the laws of other jurisdictions, primarily the European Union. This course does not address reproductive rights or other direct limits on the government's ability to proscribe individual acts, sometimes also referred to as rights of privacy. The course has a take-home final examination.