Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1981
ISSN
0017-811X
Publisher
Harvard Law Review Pub. Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
On December 15, 189o, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, two young Boston law partners, published an article in the Harvard Law Review entitled The Right to Privacy. In that article, they proposed a remedy for invasions of personal privacy by the press. More than ninety years later, protection of privacy has become a major concern of the law. Legal scholars have organized the extensive body of case law into a coherent common law of privacy; the Supreme Court has enshrined the right to privacy in the "penumbra" of the Bill of Rights; and Congress has enacted additional safeguards.
Recommended Citation
David J. Seipp,
The Right to Privacy in Nineteenth Century America
,
in
94
Harvard Law Review
1892
(1981).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1568
