Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Clash Between Privacy and Freedom of the Press
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Law Professor and former journalist Amy Gajda joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss her latest book, Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. They chart a course through early conceptions of privacy to today’s fraught battles over privacy and dignity in the age of surveillance capitalism.
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| 0:48.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the |
| 0:55.0 | rule of law in the Supreme Court. I'm Dialithquick and this is a part of our summer series that |
| 1:00.9 | takes a step back and looks at interesting new books and films and articles about justice |
| 1:08.2 | and the law and the ways we can think about them in a kind of lens-shifting way. |
| 1:14.5 | Our guest today is an old friend of mine, Amy Gaita. She is Tulane Law School's class |
| 1:21.4 | of 1937 Professor of Law and she's a journalist-turned-lawyer who is recognized internationally |
| 1:29.4 | for expertise in privacy, media law, towards the law of higher education. |
| 1:34.8 | And her scholarship really probes the tension between social regulation and first amendment |
| 1:40.9 | values, particularly the shifting boundaries of a free press and public anxiety about privacy. |
| 1:49.6 | Her newest book is Seek and Hide, The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. It was |
| 1:54.6 | published by Viking in 2022 and The New York Times calls it Rye and Fascinating, named |
| 2:00.9 | it one of the top 17 nonfiction books of the season. And Amy is somebody that I always |
| 2:07.7 | turn to, at least once a week in my head at least, when I'm trying to think about press |
| 2:12.4 | and privacy. So welcome to the show and congratulations on this book which I've just read for the |
| 2:18.7 | second time and I just love it and commend it to listeners because in addition to being |
| 2:24.5 | important and thoughtful, it's just a really fun read. |
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