Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century

Although the courts have struggled to balance the interests of individuals, businesses, and law enforcement, the proliferation of intrusive new technologies puts many of our presumed freedoms in legal limbo. For instance, it’s not hard to envision a day when websites such as Facebook or Google Maps introduce a feature that allows real-time tracking of anyone you want, based on face-recognition software and ubiquitous live video feeds.

Does this scenario sound like an unconstitutional invasion of privacy? These 24 eye-opening lectures immerse you in the Constitution, the courts, and the post-9/11 Internet era that the designers of our legal system could scarcely have imagined. Professor Rosen explains the most pressing legal issues of the modern day and asks how the framers of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights would have reacted to aspects of the modern life such as full-body scans, cell phone surveillance, and privacy in cloud servers.

Called “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator” by the Los Angeles Times, Professor Rosen is renowned for his ability to bring legal issues alive – to put real faces and human drama behind the technical issues that cloud many legal discussions. Here he asks how you would decide particular cases about liberty and privacy. You’ll come away with a more informed opinion about whether modern life gives even the most innocent among us reason to worry.

About the Author

Jeffrey Rosen is Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, the legal affairs editor of The New Republic, and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a museum and education center next to the Liberty Bell. Professor Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Rosen was honored with the 2013 Golden Pen award from the Legal Writing Institute for his ìextraordinary contributions to the cause of better legal writing.î His books include The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, the best-selling companion book to the award-winning PBS series.

Product details

• Full Audiobook MP3 Program
• Full PDF Guidebook Included
• Listening Length 12 hours
• Author Jeffrey Rosen, The Great Courses
• Narrator Jeffrey Rosen
• Release Date July 08, 2013
• Publisher The Great Courses
• Version Original recording
• Language English
• ASIN B00DTO5RHK