Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. His books include "Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy" (Stanford, 2007), "Private Lives: Families, Individuals, and the Law" (2005), "A History of American Law" (2005, third edition), "American Law in the Twentieth Century" (2004), and "Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization" (Stanford, 2003).