My scholarship focuses upon Fourth Amendment search and seizure law. I am particularly interested in civil search jurisprudence and the implications that modern developments have on it, including the rise of the regulatory state and the increasing interest in preventative searches, such as for national security purposes.
Articles
GPS Tracking Out of Fourth Amendment Dead Ends: United States v. Jones and the Katz Conundrum, North Carolina Law Review (2012)
United States v. Jones, which reviewed the Fourth Amendment constitutionality of warrantless GPS tracking, may...
The Death of Suspicion, William & Mary Law Review (2010)
This article argues that neither the presumptive warrant requirement nor the presumptive suspicion requirement are...
The Framers’ Search Power: The Misunderstood Statutory History of Suspicion & Probable Cause, Boston College Law Review (2009)
Originalist analyses of the Framers’ views about governmental search power have devoted insufficient attention to...
A Response to Professor Steinberg’s Fourth Amendment Chutzpah, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2008)
Professor David Steinberg believes that the Fourth Amendment was intended only to provide some protection...
In The Trenches: Searches & The Misunderstood Common Law History Of Suspicion & Probable Cause, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2007)
A detailed analysis of the common law during the Framers’ era, and of how it...