What can people be liable for reporting about you if they find some secret?

What might they be liable for despite freedom of expression?

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law and the Supreme

Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and this is part of our summer series that takes a step back and looks

at interesting new books and films and articles about justice in the law and the ways we can

think about them in a kind of lens-shifting way. Our guest today is an old friend of mine,

Amy Gaida. She is Tulane Law School's class of 1937 professor of law, and she's a journalist turned lawyer who is

recognized internationally for expertise in privacy, media law, torts, the law of higher

education.

And her scholarship really probes the tension between social regulation and First Amendment

values, particularly the shifting

boundaries of a free press and public anxiety about privacy. Her newest book is Seek and Hide,

The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. It was published by Viking in 2022. And the New York Times calls it

Ryan Fascinating, named it one of the top 17 nonfiction books of the season. And Amy is

somebody that I always turn to, at least once a week in my head at least, when I'm trying to think

about press and privacy. So welcome to the show, and congratulations on this book, which I've just read for the second time.

And I just love it and commend it to listeners because in addition to being important and thoughtful, it's just a really fun read.

Oh, thank you so much.

I'm really so happy to be here. It's a real joy to be with you.

So this book is a lot of history on history on history. And in some ways, it is a long meditation about the collision between the right to know and the right to privacy, the right to be left alone.

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