Alan Z. Rozenshtein is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he will begin as an Associate Professor of Law in the summer of 2019. Previously, he taught law at the Georgetown University Law Center and served as an Attorney Advisor with the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
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The Supreme Court was wrong to assume in Carpenter that the government needed a warrant to get the data in question.
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