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Trivia question for privacy law geeks

By Steven | November 11, 2009

No doubt you’ve heard of the famous 1890 Harvard Law Review article “The Right to Privacy” by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, which paved the way for the privacy tort in the US and has been described as the “most influential law review article of all”.

But do you know what they wrote before that?

Turns out that their first two collaborative efforts were entitled “The Watuppa Pond Cases” and “The Law of Ponds”. They have been less influential.

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