Privacy Journal

Perfect for the lawyer or consumer advocate facing the first case of invasion of privacy. Perfect for the citizen who wants to know whether he or she has a claim for invasion of privacy.

Written by Robert Ellis Smith, an attorney, and according to "Business Week," "one of the country's leading advocates of privacy protection."

This book describes the origin of the common-law tort of invasion of privacy then describes it in detail, with case citations. It then describes state privacy statutes, then lists the defenses to a lawsuit for an invasion of privacy, followed by an authoritative description of the current status of the constitutional right to privacy.