Invasion of Privacy
A Clarification of Concepts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4284493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Lusky (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-209 |
| Publication date | 1972-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2147825 |
| OpenAlex | W2330904182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Those who follow scholarly literature and legal developments on the subject of privacy have noted an unevenness in the pace of doctrinal evolution. Occasionally there has been a leap forward. In 1890, Warren and Brandeis identified privacywhich they defined, in overbroad but meaningful terms, as the right be let alone-as a significant value that deserved, and indeed had to a large extent received, legal protection by the courts.' In 1965, five members of the United States Supreme Court joined in a remarkable opinion by one of their numberJustice William 0. Douglas-in which, extrapolating from the several Bill of Rights safeguards of particular aspects of privacy (such as the privilege against self-incrimination, the immunity from unreasonable searches and seizures, and the prohibition against the quartering of troops in civilian homes in peacetime), he postulated the existence of a general right of privacy which the Constitution itself protects.2 And in 1967, only two years thereafter, Professor Alan F. Westin undertook to offer a conceptual system broader than that of his predecessors in two major * Copyright ? 1972, by Louis Lusky. This article, somewhat expanded, also appears in the Columbia Law Review, LXXII (1972). 'Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review, IV (1890), 193. 2 Griswold v Contnecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 2018 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |