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Prof. Orin Kerr
Professor Kerr joined the faculty in 2001. He teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and computer crime law. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, and many other journals.He is the author of a new casebook, Computer Crime Law, and he recently joined the leading casebook in criminal procedure with co-authors Yale Kamisar, Wayne LaFave, Jerold Israel, and Nancy King. In 2006, Kerr was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. His scholarship and advocacy in the field of Internet surveillance law has been profiled in the New York Times and National Public Radio’s, All Things Considered.
Before joining the faculty, Professor Kerr was an Honors Program trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice as well as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also is a former law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.
Before attending law school, Kerr earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. Kerr posts regularly at the popular weblog “The Volokh Conspiracy,” available at http://volokh.com.
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