To: My AU WCL LLM Law Students
Good day. It will be my pleasure to be your teacher for for the Spring 2011 LLM term for Privacy & Health Information Technology (LAW-719-002) -- Meets: 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM (M) - Enrolled: 14 / Limit: 14. Welcome to our course, and I look forward to greeting you on January 10.
Please know that because my unanticipated appointment for this course occurred recently, the syllabus for our course still is in the process of being prepared.
In the meantime, for our first class on January 10, 2011, kindly study the following (for convenience I am provided hot links below that were accessible today although these materials likely are available more generally elsewhere):
1. “The Right to Privacy” - Warren and Brandeis - Harvard Law Review. - Vol. IV December 15, 1890 No. 5
available at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html
2. ROE v. WADE, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
3. GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
available at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=volpage&court=us&vol=381&page=484#484
4. OLMSTEAD v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
5. WILLIAM H. SORRELL, AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF VERMONT et al. v. IMS HEALTH INC. et al. (Petition for writ of certiorari filed) (2010)
6. CITIZENS FOR HEALTH et al. v. Michael O. LEAVITT et al.,
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 428 F.3d 167 (2005), government's brief
available at http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/cvt-govreply.pdf