Samantha Barbas

woman with long dark hair, inside a room, smiling.

Professor; Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Research Focus: First Amendment, Legal History, Mass Media Law
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Contact Information

523 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY, 14260-1100
716-645-6216
sbarbas@buffalo.edu

Faculty Assistant: Suzanne Caruso

Biography Publications

Books

ACTUAL MALICE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN (University of California Press, forthcoming 2023)

THE RISE AND FALL OF MORRIS ERNST: FREE SPEECH RENEGADE (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD’S NOTORIOUS SCANDAL MAGAZINE (Chicago Review Press, 2018)

NEWSWORTHY: THE SUPREME COURT'S BATTLE OVER PRIVACY AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (Stanford University Press, 2017)

LAWS OF IMAGE: PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY IN AMERICA (Stanford University Press, 2015)  

THE FIRST LADY OF HOLLYWOOD: A BIOGRAPHY OF LOUELLA PARSONS (University of California Press: 2005)

MOVIE CRAZY: FANS, STARS AND THE CULT OF CELEBRITY (Palgrave Macmillan: 2001)

Journal Articles

The Story of Beauharnais v. Illinois, 2 JOURNAL OF FREE SPEECH LAW 419 (2023)

The Press and Libel Before New York Times v. Sullivan 44 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE ARTS 511, 511-544 (2021)

The Esquire Case: A Lost Free Speech Landmark,” WILLIAM AND MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL (Dec. 2018)

The Most Loved, Most Hated Magazine in America: The Rise and Demise of Confidential Magazine, WILLIAM AND MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL, vol. 25: 121 (2016)

When Privacy Almost Won: Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967), UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, vol. 18 (2015): 1-86

The Social Origins of the Personality Torts, RUTGERS LAW REVIEW, vol. 67 (2015): 393-440

From Privacy to Publicity: The Tort of Appropriation in the Age of Mass Consumption, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 61 (2013)

How the Movies Became Speech, RUTGERS LAW REVIEW vol. 64: 665 (2012)

Saving Privacy from History, DEPAUL LAW REVIEW vol. 61: 973 (2012)

The Laws of Image, NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW vol. 47: 23 (2012)

The Sidis Case and the Origins of Modern Privacy Law, COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & ARTS vol. 36: 21 (2012)

Creating the Public Forum, AKRON LAW REVIEW vol. 44: 809 (2011)

The Death of the Public Disclosure Tort: A Historical Perspective, YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & THE HUMANITIES vol. 22: 171 (2010)

Dorothy Kenyon and the Making of Modern Legal Feminism [Notes], STANFORD JOURNAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL LIBERTIES vol. 5: 423 (2009)

Book Chapters

Privacy and the Right to One’s Image: A Cultural and Legal History, in INJURY AND INJUSTICE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF HARM AND REDRESS (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Gossip Law, in WHEN PRIVATE TALK GOES PUBLIC: GOSSIP IN UNITED STATES HISTORY (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) p. 123

Book Reviews

JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION  vol. 26: 629 (2010) (reviewing Jytte Klausen, THE CARTOONS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (2009))