The Secret History of the Right to Privacy

Amy Gajda is the Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and the author of Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, named one of the New York Times’s 100 most notable books for 2022. Gajda will talk about the history of privacy with a special emphasis on media law from the very beginning of the United States (before Warren & Brandeis and their Harvard Law Review article, there was Adams & Cushing and their worries about privacy protection for “instances of male conduct”) through to today when media-related privacy interests seem robust, even at the Supreme Court.