Privacy Revisited

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was an associate with Covington & Burling. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Krotoszynski served on the law faculties of Washington and Lee University and the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: IntroductionA Prolegomenon to Privacy: On the Potential Virtues and Benefits of a Comparative Legal Analysis of the "Right To Be Let Alone" Chapter 2: The United StatesThe Polysemy of Privacy: An Analysis of the Many Facesand Facets of the Right of Privacy in the Contemporary United States Chapter 3: Canada Privacy in Canada: Taming a Notoriously Protean Legal Concept with a Coherent and Purposive Approach Chapter 4: The Republic of South AfricaPrivacy in South Africa: Deploying Dignity, Equality, and Freedom to Safeguard the Process of Democratic Self-Government Chapter 5: The United KingdomPrivacy in the United Kingdom: On the Perils and Promise of Weak-Form Judicial Review in Securing Privacy Rights Chapter 6: The European Court of Human RightsPrivacy Rights in Europe: Reconciling Privacy and Speech in the Era of Big Data Chapter 7: ConclusionBringing Meiklejohn to Privacy: On the Essential Complementarity of Privacy and Speech Index

Privacy Revisited is a truly remarkable book. Successfully deploying an analytic approach which is both comparative and contextual is a wonderful achievement in itself, but Krotoszynski does more. He offers a framework for thinking about privacy as a global human right. In so doing, he shows that the way privacy is understood in the United States means that privacy is protected neither 'as reliably or as comprehensively' as it is in other liberal democracies. This argument is bracing and persuasive, and it makes a singularly important contribution to scholarship and public discourse.