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...