The Right to Privacy: Rights and Liberties Under the Law (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576077160)

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.

Author: Richard A. Glenn
ISBN-10: 1576077160
ISBN-13: 9781576077160
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2003
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.44h x 5.96w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2004 pg. 252
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2004 pg. 111
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1740