Scholarship often traces American privacy law to Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis’s influential 1890 Harvard Law Review article. The Warren and Brandeis article argues judges ought to protect a person’s thoughts, sensations and emotions against invasions by the press, photographers, distributors of portraits, and publishers of gossip. Warren and Brandeis connected the right of privacy to personal dignity and what Judge Thomas M. Cooley identified as a “right to be let alone.” Just over a century later, Professor Randall P. Bezanson revisited their article. He explained Warren and Brandeis’s conception of privacy was a response to nineteenth century social conditions and cultural values that were distinct from twentieth century social conditions and cultural values. Bezanson’s article demonstrates a legal concept can be better understood by exploring social and cultural history to analyze what a particular law was intended to protect. While some legal scholarship explores legislative histories of statutory laws and case law cited in judicial opinions, legal scholarship also may consider other factors that influenced calls

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Bezanson，RandallP。“隐私权再探：隐私，新闻和社会变革，1890年至1990年，第80卡。L.Rev.1133（1992）

奖学金经常可以追溯到美国隐私法，其源头是塞缪尔·沃伦和路易斯·布兰代斯在1890年发表的颇具影响力的《哈佛法律评论》。沃伦和布兰代斯的文章认为，法官应该保护个人的思想，感觉和情感，使其免受新闻界，摄影师，肖像发行人和八卦出版商的入侵。沃伦（Warren）和布兰代斯（Brandeis）将隐私权与人格尊严联系在一起，而法官汤玛斯·库里（Thomas M. Cooley）法官则将其称为“不容忽视的权利”。一个多世纪后，兰德尔·P·贝赞森（Randall P. Bezanson）教授重新审视了他们的文章。他解释说，沃伦和布兰代斯的隐私概念是对不同于20世纪社会条件和文化价值的19世纪社会条件和文化价值的回应。Bezanson的文章表明，通过探索社会和文化历史来分析特定法律的保护意图，可以更好地理解法律概念。虽然某些法律奖学金探讨了司法观点中引用的成文法和判例法的立法历史，但法律奖学金也可能考虑其他影响诉求的因素。