Orin Kerr is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He is a nationally recognized scholar of criminal procedure and computer crime law. Before becoming a law professor, Kerr was a trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a former law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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A law-nerd analysis of whether Donald J. Trump Jr. violated the CFAA based on his recently-disclosed e-mail.
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McCarthy accuses Mueller of "shredding” Justice Department policy. Here's why that's wrong.
Three points to consider before Tuesday's Supreme Court oral argument.
We should turn a critical eye toward the legal claim purportedly undergirding the Nunes memo.
Professor Kerr's thoughts on the best way to establish Fourth Amendment rights in cell-site records.
The answer is probably no. But that's not as obvious as many people seem to think.