The Yale Law Journal

Patricia L. Bellia

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WikiLeaks and the Institutional Framework for National Security Disclosures

Patricia L. Bellia


121 Yale L.J. 1448.

WikiLeaks’ successive disclosures of classified U.S. documents throughout 2010 and 2011 invite comparison to publishers’ decisions forty years ago to release portions of the Pentagon Papers, the classified analytic history of U.S. policy in Vietnam. The analogy is a powerful wea…

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Federalization in Information Privacy Law

Patricia L. Bellia

118 Yale L.J. 868 (2009). 

In Preemption and Privacy, Professor Paul Schwartz argues that it would be unwise for Congress to adopt a unitary federal information privacy statute that both eliminates the sector-specific distinctions in federal information privacy law and blocks the development of str…