Stephen Henderson is an Associate Professor at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, DE. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with highest honors) from the University of California at Davis, where he received the College of Engineering Medal for most outstanding graduating student, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he co-founded the Yale Law and Technology Society and served as articles editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. Following law school Professor Henderson clerked for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then practiced with Vinson & Elkins and Fish & Richardson, concentrating on intellectual property, criminal law, and the intersections thereof. Before joining the faculty of Widener in 2003, he taught for a year at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is admitted to practice in Texas and Pennsylvania. Professor Henderson teaches, writes, and lectures in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Intellectual Property, and Cybercrime. He currently serves as the Reporter for the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Standards Task Force on Transaction Surveillance, and is co-creator and webmaster of the Crimprof Multipedia, an online pedagogical resource for criminal law and procedure professors. He is active in his church and local community, and his pride and joy are his four beautiful daughters, Jessie, Elena, Shawnda, and Katrina, his son Hyrum, and their celestial mom, Hilary.
Criminal Procedure
‘Move On’ Orders as Fourth Amendment Seizures, Brigham Young University Law Review (2008)
If a police officer orders one to move on, must the recipient comply? This article...
Beyond the (Current) Fourth Amendment: Protecting Third-Party Information, Third Parties, and the Rest of Us Too, Pepperdine Law Review (2007)
For at least thirty years the Supreme Court has adhered to its third-party doctrine in...
Learning From All Fifty States: How to Apply the Fourth Amendment and Its State Analogs to Protect Third Party Information From Unreasonable Search, Catholic University Law Review (2006)
We are all aware of, and many commentators are critical of, the Supreme Court's third-party...
Nothing New Under the Sun? A Technologically Rational Doctrine of Fourth Amendment Search, Mercer Law Review (2005)
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. Yet as...
Law and Religion
Hijacked From Both Sides -- Why Religious Extremists and Religious Bigots Share an Interest in Preventing Academic Discourse on Criminal Jurisprudence Based on the First Principles of Christianity, Idaho Law Review (2000)
Law and Technology
The Technology of Surveillance: Will the Supreme Court's Expectations Ever Resemble Society's?, Widener School of Law Magazine (2007)
Suing the Insecure?: A Duty of Care in Cyberspace (with Matthew E. Yarbrough), New Mexico Law Review (2002)
The Internet, already of major significance throughout much of the globe, is expected to become...