Vol. 139 No. 5 Drug detection dogs are critical tools in the fight against drug trafficking. However, law enforcement canines are imperfect: They sometimes incorrectly alert when performing...
Vol. 139 No. 4 The Digital Fourth Amendment is written by Professor Orin Kerr, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the Fourth Amendment, electronic privacy, and criminal procedure. Kerr’s work has been deeply influential in shaping how courts are looking at and deciding issues raised by law enforcement’s powerful and novel capabilities, thanks to technological changes.
Vol. 138 No. 8 Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Surprisingly, we know almost nothing about how the Fourth Amendment regulates searches and how searches actually work in practice.In this Article, we pull back the curtain on the search and seizure process by presenting the largest quantitative study of warrants of any kind.
Vol. 138 No. 7 Then consequently, those must be bad Laws, which authorize the Imprisoning [of] any Man for Debt, who does honestly give up to his Creditors...
Vol. 138 No. 7 While technology advances, do Fourth Amendment rights keep pace to preserve privacy? Or do they get left behind? Regardless of the answer, it would...
Innovation in digital technologies dramatically reduces the cost and inconvenience of record creation and collection and stokes law enforcement officials’ insatiable appetite for information...
Vol. 137 No. 6 Abstract For decades, a question has simmered in criminal procedure: Can the Fourth Amendment seizure analysis account for a suspect’s race? Scholars have long...
Vol. 137 No. 5 A teenager in East Boston walks to school wearing a blue windbreaker — a gift from his mother — and a Chicago Bulls hat. Along the way, he...
