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Privacy Law In The New Millennium: A Tribute To Richard C. Turkington, Gregory P. Magarian

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At least since Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren's seminal 1890 article "The Right to Privacy,"' the idea of privacy has sparked some of the most significant and contentious debates in American law. Over the past three decades, Richard Turkington focused his formidable intellect on enriching those debates. Dick's untimely passing in 2004 deprived those of us who knew and worked with him of a treasured friend and a brilliant colleague. The broader legal profession lost a visionary. Probably more than any other scholar of his generation, Dick was responsible for expanding and deepening our understanding of the essential, sometimes elusive, …