LAW 473—Information Privacy Law

This course introduces students to various aspects of privacy and information law, including changing understandings of the very concepts of privacy and information. We will study different approaches by which law has attempted to protect privacy and access to information, including contract and tort law, statutory and regulatory protections, and criminal law. We will also address the roles of privacy and management of information in corporate governance, litigation, government information and national security, and the obligations of lawyers to protect client privacy. This course is dual-listed with LAW 573.