The Right to Privacy (article)

"The Right to Privacy" (4 Harvard L.R. 193 (Dec. 15, 1890)) is a law review article written by Samuel D. Warren II and Louis Brandeis, and published in the 1890 Harvard Law Review.^[1] It is "one of the most influential essays in the history of American law"^[2] and is widely regarded as the first publication in the United States to advocate a right to privacy,^[3] articulating that right primarily as a "right to be let alone".^[4]

^ Warren, Samuel; Brandeis, Louis (December 15, 1890). "The Right to Privacy". Harvard Law Review. IV (5): 193–220. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Internet Archive.
^ Susan E. Gallagher, Introduction to "The Right to Privacy" by Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel Warren: A Digital Critical Edition, University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.
^ See, e.g., Dorothy J. Glancy, "The Invention of the Right to Privacy" Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Arizona Law Review, v. 21, n. 21, pp. 1–39 (1979), p. 1 ("The right to privacy is, as a legal concept, a fairly recent invention. It dates back to a law review article published in December of 1890 by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis.").
^ Warren & Brandeis, paragraph 1.

[:0-1] Warren, Samuel; Brandeis, Louis (December 15, 1890). "The Right to Privacy". Harvard Law Review. IV (5): 193–220. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Internet Archive.

[2] Susan E. Gallagher, Introduction to "The Right to Privacy" by Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel Warren: A Digital Critical Edition, University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.

[3] See, e.g., Dorothy J. Glancy, "The Invention of the Right to Privacy" Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Arizona Law Review, v. 21, n. 21, pp. 1–39 (1979), p. 1 ("The right to privacy is, as a legal concept, a fairly recent invention. It dates back to a law review article published in December of 1890 by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis.").

[WB-para1-4] Warren & Brandeis, paragraph 1.

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