Imagining new legalities : privacy and its possibilities in the 21st century / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Douglas, Lawrence, editor.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill, editor.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

The Amherst series in law, jursiprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Privacy, Right of--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of threats to privacy and rejoinders to them. Instead it considers several different conceptions of privacy and provides examples of legal inventiveness in confronting some contemporary challenges to the public/private distinction.

It provides a context for that consideration by surveying the meanings of privacy in three domains-the first, involving intimacy and intimate relations; the second, implicating criminal procedure, in particular, the 4th Amendment; and the third, addressing control of information in the digital age. The first two provide examples of what are taken to be classic breaches of the public/private distinction, namely instances when government intrudes in an area claimed to be private. The third has to do with voluntary circulation of information and the question of who gets to control what happens to and with that information. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : change and continuity : privacy and its prospects in the 21st century / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

Disenchanting the public/private distinction / Kathryn Abrams

The law of play / Ariela R. Dubler

Coming to the community / Robin Feldman

Configuring the networked citizen / Julie E. Cohen

Adversarial legalism and the emergence of a new European legality : a comparative perspective / Anthony Sebok and Lars Trägårdh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777049

0804777047

OCLC:

750401505