It is an honor to be asked to write the foreword for this symposium issue of the Widener Commonwealth Law Review. It is a particular pleasure to be asked to comment on pieces that discuss the Fourth Amendment, for that provision represents our Nation's attempt to balance privacy and security-perhaps the two most fundamental values in any system of ordered liberty. The standards by which the Amendment is to be interpreted, and by which those values of privacy and security are to be achieved, raise equally fundamental concerns about judicial power. It is therefore quite fitting that this issue also discusses judicial behavior and judicial selection-in particular the nomination and confirmation of circuit judges.

This collection of articles arises out of a live symposium held at Widener Law Commonwealth on April 5, 2019. That symposium, entitled "Search, Seizure and Smartphones: A View of the Fourth Amendment Through Today's Lens," brought together scholars and practitioners who shared their views and experiences concerning the ways in which the Fourth Amendment's protection of the people's right "to be secure in their persons, papers, houses, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" should apply to the Internet age.