Privacy in the 21st Century

In Privacy in the 21st Century Alexandra Rengel offers an assessment of the international right to privacy within both a historical and modern context. The book explores the underpinnings of privacy in religion, philosophy, and the law. The author explores the evolution of the legal concept of the right to privacy and offers a comparative law analysis of the global protections of privacy offered by individual states, international agreements, and recognized international legal norms.
The author peers into the future of privacy, the technologies which affect the right to privacy, and the ways in which privacy may be protected in the future within the domestic and international law contexts. The author offers her insightful views on possible solutions to counteract encroachments on the right to privacy.

Alexandra Rengel J.S.D. (2013), Saint Thomas University School of Law (Miami). She is a professor at Schiller University (Madrid) and practicing attorney at Mercado & Rengel. Her expertise is in international law, she also lectures and writes about legal issues.

"...a work such as Rengel’s is a timely, necessary and valuable contribution...It is particularly important as an up-to-date survey of privacy developments from the legal perspective."
-Nicholas Clapham, University of Surrey