Justice Brandeis’s Shootout with the Paparazzi

On December 15, 1890, Louis Brandies and Samuel Warren published what is generally considered the most influential law review article ever written: <a href="https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Right to Privacy</a>, Harvard Law Review. Brandeis, later to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote most of the article, but Warren co-signed as Brandeis’s partner in their four-year-old Massachusetts law firm. Their purpose may have been partly to draw attention to the firm, but the effect was immediate. The article became the inspiration for what is now the legally recognized right to privacy. The right “to be left alone.” <a href="https://medium.com/live-view/justice-brandeiss-shootout-with-the-paparazzi-5db1b3da8bb2">Read More</a>