New technologies and modes of communicating have dramatically increased the volume and type of personal information and raw data that may be captured, utilized, and disclosed by businesses and governments. As a result, privacy law has emerged as a critical field for lawyers and their clients to understand. This course offers a survey of the field of privacy law beginning with its origins in the common law, constitutional law, and statutory law, and covering the increasingly-complex regulatory schemes that affect a wide range of consumers, industries, and nations. In particular, this course will address such topics as health and genetic privacy, financial privacy, privacy of electronic communications, accessibility of public and private databases, privacy and the media, privacy and place, and international privacy regimes. Throughout the course, students will confront political, policy, and philosophical questions posed by regulation and litigation of privacy issues and will be encouraged to explore the ramifications of these questions.