Privacy and Freedom of Speech

At the same time American courts were recognizing a right to one's image -- a "right to privacy" -- that made embarrassing or ...

Libel law and "image consciousness"

In my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America , and in my posts on the Legal History Blog this month, I've described how an...

Privacy and Public Image

By 1940, the tort action for invasion of privacy had been recognized in fifteen jurisdictions. The Restatement of Torts acknowledged it in ...

Image-consciousness and the Law

In my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America , I chronicle the rise of what I describe as "laws of image" in the twe...

Barbas at BC Legal History Roundtable

[We have the following announcement from our friends at Boston College concerning our guest blogger, Samantha Barbas .] We are delighted th...

The Right to "Privacy"

Thanks again to the Legal History Blog for the opportunity to share ideas from my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America . We ...

Laws of Image

I'm very happy to have the opportunity to share my work on the Legal History Blog this month. I was invited to blog because of the recen...

Welcome, Samantha Barbas!

Samantha Barbas ( credit ) We are delighted to have with us as a guest blogger this month Samantha Barbas , Associate Professor of Law at S...

A Museum of "the Weapon of the Weak"

The American Museum of Tort Law opens tomorrow in Winstead, CT, Ralph Nader 's home town, the New York Times reports .  A ceremony to ...

Stern on the Origins of the "Reasonable Person"

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted R. v. Jones (1703): The Origins of the "Reasonable Person," which...

West on Gatsby and Tort

My Georgetown Law colleague Robin L. West has posted Gatsby and Tort : A Scene from the Great Gatsby Festival ( C. Highsmith ) The Great ...

Sir Geoffrey Palmer on NZ's ACC

Perhaps because one of my first sights upon disembarking in Auckland was someone in a Georgetown tee shirt, I was not immediately struck by ...

Harlow on the Impostor De Arnaud

James Harlow, US Department of Justice , has posted An Impostor If There Ever Was One": The Trials of Charles De Arnaud , which appears...

American Museum of Tort Law Announces Executive Director

And, while we're on the topic of bar-initiated historical activities, we should note the report in the Connecticut Legal Times that a ...

White on the Emergence and Development of Amreican Tort Law

G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted The Emergence and Development of a Law of Torts , which is to appear in t...

New Release: Siegel's "Forensic Media"

Greg Siegel , an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara , has published Forensic Media...

Katz on Judicial Patriarchy, Domestic Violence, and the Family Privacy Narrative

Elizabeth Katz , a doctoral candidate in History at Harvard University , with an JD and MA in history from the University of Virginia, has...