Privacy Invasion
Professor Robin Barnes is the chair and a presenter for the 8th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media in Athens, Greece. The conference, "Contemporary Figures of Society: Privacy Invasions and the Global Tabloid Markets," will be held from May 17 through May 20.
Professor Barnes teaches various courses in Advanced Constitutional Law. Professor Barnes graduated from the University of Buffalo Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence in the top 10% of her class. She received an LL.M. in Constitutional Theory from the University Of Wisconsin School Of Law, where she began her career as a William H. Hastie Fellow in the 1990s. Her most widely cited publications appear in the Yale, Columbia and Harvard Law Reviews. Her work has been cited and praised in over 250 legal journals. Barnes' casebook, The Nature and Scope of Individual Rights: Emerging Debates in Constitutional Law (2007), focuses upon individual rights in the areas of substantive due process, information privacy and political freedom. Her latest book Outrageous Invasions, Celebrities' Private Lives, Media and the Law, focuses upon the evolution of speech rights of public figures and how they both deflect and promote broader changes in the democratic order in the US and European Union.
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