Event Title
Location
University of Richmond School of Law
Start Date
19-3-1999 6:00 PM
Description
The University of Richmond School of Law sponsored the "Aggressive Newsgathering and the First Amendment." The symposium covered such topics as surreptitious newsgathering techniques, the constitutionality of recent proposed legislation regarding paparazzi, and the question of the appropriate dividing line, if any, between public and private life. The symposium featured a mix of scholars, journalist, lawyers, judges, and public figures, who discussed these issues in three sessions. Scholarly papers generated by the symposium were published in 33 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1143 (1999). The authors of those papers also participated in the symposium proceedings and they were:
Professor Erin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School
Professor Robert O'Neil, University of Virginia School of Law
Professor Diane Zimmerman, New York University School of Law
Professor Robert Nagel, University of Colorado School of Law
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Aggressive Newsgathering and the First Amendment
University of Richmond School of Law
The University of Richmond School of Law sponsored the "Aggressive Newsgathering and the First Amendment." The symposium covered such topics as surreptitious newsgathering techniques, the constitutionality of recent proposed legislation regarding paparazzi, and the question of the appropriate dividing line, if any, between public and private life. The symposium featured a mix of scholars, journalist, lawyers, judges, and public figures, who discussed these issues in three sessions. Scholarly papers generated by the symposium were published in 33 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1143 (1999). The authors of those papers also participated in the symposium proceedings and they were:
Professor Erin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School
Professor Robert O'Neil, University of Virginia School of Law
Professor Diane Zimmerman, New York University School of Law
Professor Robert Nagel, University of Colorado School of Law
Comments
In this symposium issue Robert Nagel, Diane Zimmerman, Robert O'Neil, and Erwin Chemerinsky explore the intersection of privacy and freedom of the press. In his fascinating inquiry into privacy and celebrity in modern American life, Robert Nagel demonstrates the connection between the American public's strong commitment to privacy and its simultaneous passion for robust protection of freedom of speech. Among his most important insights is the exposure of "pseudo-intimacy" as a principal currency of contemporary celebrity status. Diane Zimmerman, Robert O'Neil, and Erwin Chemerinsky all investigate the legal principles that ought to surround aggressive and surreptitious newsgathering techniques, each in their own way drawing the conclusion that some legal protection ought to extend to at least some exercises in surreptitious newsgathering. Spurred by these efforts, my aim here is to look for links among the themes in this scholarship, and to offer some comment of my own on the cultural and legal issues presented.
Rodney A. Smolla, Qualified Intimacy, Celebrity, and the Case for a Newsgatheirng Privilege, 33 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1143 (1999).