Comparative Privacy Law will consider the constitutional protection afforded the right of
privacy in the United States and in the domestic constitutional jurisprudence of three other democratic
countries: Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In addition, we will study the right of
privacy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, a transnational juridical entity
that hears claims arising under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms (commonly called the “European Convention on Human Rights”), and also
consider the emerging privacy jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which
follows the decisions of the European Court and enforces the European Charter of Rights (commonly
called “the European Charter”).
