Categories: Constitutional Law Intellectual Property Human Rights

Instructor(s)

Ashley, Christopher
Bilder, Anne

Course Data

Room 5223
T 5:40pm-7:40pm

Pass/Fail: Yes

Course Description

This seminar-style course is about privacy --what it means to the courts, to the legislature, to the public, or whether it really means anything at all.  Through a variety of source materials, including case
law, legislation, essays, and literature, the course examines constitutional and common law approaches to privacy issues in many contexts -- our persons,
our homes, our workplaces, our schools, our computers and cyberspace.  It also includes cultural and comparative law dimensions of privacy.  The
instructors make a concerted effort to weave current events and "hot topics" in privacy into the syllabus and class discussions.  Students are graded primarily on a final research paper, oral presentation of the paper
in class, and on class participation that includes leadership of a class
discussion on selected topics.  Pass/fail option is available.

 

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