LAW 5894 - Privacy Law Seminar

Credit(s): 2
This course will examine common law, constitutional and statutory rights to privacy within the context of current society and new technology. Balancing privacy rights and societal values is becoming increasingly different in this age of Google, social networking, advanced technology, and threats to national security. These changes create also shifts in our notions, definitions, and expectations of privacy. Consequently, some members and institutions of society are allowing a shift of the pendulum toward less, rather than more privacy. Students in this seminar discuss concepts and readings, lead a class discussion, write an original paper on a topic they and the instructor choose together, and present the results of the research on their paper to the class.