Comparative Privacy
LAW 654 | 2 Hours
Comparative Privacy Law will consider the constitutional protection afforded the right of privacy in the United States and in the domestic constitutional jurisprudence of three other democratic countries: Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In addition, we will study the right of privacy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, a transnational juridical entity that hears claims arising under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (commonly called the “European Convention on Human Rights”), and also consider the emerging privacy jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which follows the decisions of the European Court and enforces the European Charter of Rights (commonly called “the European Charter”).