Walled Garden - Law and Privacy in Modern Society

This book examines our basic understandings of privacy as they are challenged by modern technology, changing social mores, and evolving legal understandings that both reflect and reinforce underlying changes in society.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.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.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence M. Friedman, Lawrence M. Grossman Friedman, Lawrence M./ Grossman Friedman, Joanna L. Grossman, Grossman Joanna L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2024
• EAN: 9781538162316
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6231-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; LAW / Science & Technology, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Media & the Law, LAW / Privacy, LAW / Entertainment, Entertainment & media law, Privacy law, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Entertainment and media law, Law of science and research, university college law