Syllabus, Fall 2012

I. Privacy and the Common Law

• Class 1 (Sept. 4): Origins of Common Law Privacy Protection
• • CB 3-31
• Class 2 (Sept. 6): Intrusion upon Seclusion; Paparazzi and Video Voyeurism
• • CB 79-108
• Class 3 (EXTENDED CLASS, Sept. 11): Disclosure of Truthful Information, Defamation, and False Light; Begin First Amendment Limits
• • CB 109-39, 181-83, 205-07
  • CB 194-98
  • Begin reading student discussion memos, posted by 8 pm the night before each class.
• Class 4 (EXTENDED CLASS, Sept. 13): First Amendment Limits on the Disclosure, Defamation, and False Light Torts
• • CB 198-205, 146-81
• Class 5 (Sept. 18): Appropriation of Name or Likeness
• • CB 220-46

Theoretical & Comparative Perspectives, part I: The Purposes of Privacy

• Class 6 (Sept. 20): Theoretical Perspectives on Privacy
• • CB 40-74
    

II. Privacy and Government: Law Enforcement; Anonymity and Identification; National Security

• Class 7 (EXTENDED CLASS, Sept. 25): The Reasonable Expectation Standard and Emerging Technologies
• • [if needed, skim CB 247-55 for a quick review of core Fourth & Fifth Amendment doctrines]
  • CB 265-68, 276-304, 306-10, 311-13 (note 7)
  • United States v. Jones (download from courseware site)
• Class 8 (EXTENDED CLASS, Sept. 27): Electronic Surveillance Law
• • CB 313-25, 328-33, 342-77
• Class 9 (Oct. 2): Privacy in the Workplace
• • CB 989-1000, 1038-55
• Class 10 (Oct. 4): Rights of Association and Anonymity
• • CB 572-590, 595-610
• No class Tuesday, Oct. 9 (GULC will follow a Monday class schedule)
• Class 11 (Oct. 11): Identification Systems
• • CB 616-33, 546-59
• Class 12 (Oct. 16): National Security and Foreign Intelligence
• • CB 377-404, 407-17
• No class Thursday, Oct. 18

III. Privacy and Government: Government Recordkeeping and Data Mining

• Class 13 (Oct. 23): Public Access to Government Records; FOIA
• • CB 641-68, 686-98
• No class Thursday, Oct. 25
• Class 14 (Oct. 30): The Privacy Act
• • CB 698-728
  • FAA v. Cooper (download from courseware site)
• Class 15 (Nov. 1): Government Data Mining
• • CB 728-56
  • Skim James Bamford, "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)," Wired, Mar. 15, 2012

Theoretical & Comparative Perspectives, part 2: Privacy and Human Rights

• Class 16 (Nov. 6): Privacy and the European Convention on Human Rights
• • CB 1065-83, 1090-1109

IV. Privacy Interests in Health, Financial, and Commercial Information

• No class Thursday, Nov. 8
  
• Class 17 (Nov. 13): Health Information
• • CB 503-10, 463-80, 537-46
  • William F. Pewen, "Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Era of Digital Health," The Atlantic, Aug. 2012
• Class 18 (EXTENDED CLASS, Nov. 15): Personal Financial Information; begin Commercial Information Processing
• • CB 757-83, 799-820
• Class 19 (EXTENDED CLASS, Nov. 20): Tools for Regulating Commercial Information Processing
• • CB 820-36, 840-41, 850-63, 872-79
• Class 20 (Nov. 27): Identity Theft; Data Security
• • CB 785-99, 880-999
• Class 21 (Nov. 29): Government Access to Commercial and Financial Records
• • CB 926-46
• Class 22 (Dec. 4): First Amendment Limits on Data Protection Regulation
• • CB 900-26

Theoretical & Comparative Perspectives, part 3: Privacy and Data Protection

• Class 23 (Dec. 6): European Data Protection Law
• • CB 1063-65, 1109-33
  • Christopher Kuner, "The European Commission's Proposed Data Protection Regulation: A Copernican Revolution in European Data Protection Law," Feb 6, 2012. (NOTE: Introduction and Part III: Chapters II-III only)