Recommended Citation
Ryan Calo, Privacy Law's Indeterminacy, 20 Theoretical Inquiries L. 33 (2019), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/507
Publication Title
Theoretical Inquiries in Law
Document Type
Article
Abstract
American legal realism numbers among the most important theoretical contributions of legal academia to date. Given the movement’s influence, as well as the common centrality of certain key figures, it is surprising that privacy scholarship in the United States has paid next to no attention to the movement. This inattention is unfortunate for several reasons, including that privacy law furnishes rich examples of the indeterminacy thesis—a key concept of American legal realism—and because the interdisciplinary efforts of privacy scholars to explore extra-legal influences on privacy law arguably further the plot of legal realism itself