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    Orin S. Kerr
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    Orin Kerr is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford Law School. Kerr specializes in criminal law and procedure, with special focus on digital crime investigations and prosecutions. He earned mechanical engineering degrees at Princeton and Stanford and his law degree at Harvard. Kerr is a former law clerk at the United States Supreme Court.

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Orin Kerr is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford Law School. Professor Kerr teaches and writes on criminal law and criminal procedure. He helped found the field of computer crime law, which studies how traditional legal doctrines should adapt to digital crime and digital evidence. He is widely considered a leading authority on the Fourth Amendment.

Kerr regularly appears on lists of the most influential legal scholars in the United States. He has written more than seventy-five law review articles in addition to authoring casebooks and treatise chapters. His latest book is The Digital Fourth Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2025). Kerr’s scholarship has been cited in over 400 judicial decisions, including several US Supreme Court opinions.

Before entering academia, Kerr was a trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the US Department of Justice. He served as a law clerk to Judge Leonard I. Garth of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the US Supreme Court.

Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, Kerr was a law professor at the George Washington University, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

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