Dr. Cohen explores The Constitutional Right That Isn't in the Constitution

Описание: The word "privacy" never appears in the U.S. Constitution — yet for over 50 years it anchored some of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in American history. In this lecture, Dr. Cohen traces the full arc of constitutional privacy law: from its philosophical roots in Locke and Mill, to its birth in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), through the landmark cases on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, and into the earthquake of Dobbs v. Jackson (2022) that overruled Roe v. Wade and left the doctrine in open question.

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📋 WHAT'S COVERED
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– Introduction: A right that isn't named
– What is privacy? Three categories: decisional, informational, spatial
– Philosophical foundations: Locke, Mill, Warren & Brandeis, Westin
– Constitutional grounding: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th & 14th Amendments
– Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): the doctrine is born
– Roe v. Wade (1973) & Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
– Sexual privacy: Bowers (1986) → Lawrence (2003) → Obergefell (2015)
– 4th Amendment in the digital age: Katz, Riley, Carpenter
– Dobbs v. Jackson (2022): what the Court said and why it matters
– Post-Dobbs landscape: state bans, shield laws, digital surveillance
– Digital privacy & legislation: GDPR, CCPA, genetic privacy
– Enduring tensions & key takeaways

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⚖️ KEY CASES
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• Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
• Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
• Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)
• Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)
• Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014)
• Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018)
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022)

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📖 FURTHER READING
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• Warren & Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy," 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890)
• Alan Westin, Privacy and Freedom (1967)
• Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): gdpr.eu

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