Title

The Focused Attention of Others: A Conceptual and Normative Model of Personal and Legal Privacy

Abstract

The article defends an analysis of privacy as those areas of a person’s life where s/he is entitled to immunity from the illegitimate focused attention of others. It goes on to argue that such a model encompasses the concept of privacy in colloquial and legal contexts. The article concludes with an analysis of the normative value of privacy.

Disciplines

Civil Law | Constitutional Law | Law | Law and Economics | Law and Society | Sexuality and the Law

Date of this Version

March 2006