Eugene Volokh is an American legal scholar known for his scholarship in American constitutional law and libertarianism as well as his prominent legal blog,The Volokh Conspiracy. Volokh is regarded as an expert on the First Amendment,and the Second Amendment. He is the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the University of California,Los Angeles,and is an affiliate at the law firm Schaerr Jaffe.
Constitution in Exile is a controversial term that refers to the situation resulting from provisions of the United States Constitution allegedly not having been enforced according to their "original intent" or "original meaning". Some originalists might argue,for example,that the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause do not authorize economic legislation dating back to the New Deal.
The Volokh Conspiracy is a legal blog co-founded in 2002 by law professor Eugene Volokh,covering legal and political issues from an ideological orientation it describes as "generally libertarian,conservative,centrist,or some mixture of these." It is one of the most widely read and cited legal blogs in the United States. The blog is written by legal scholars and provides discussion on complex court decisions.
Katz v. United States,389 U.S. 347 (1967),was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court redefined what constitutes a "search" or "seizure" with regard to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ruling expanded the Fourth Amendment's protections from an individual's "persons,houses,papers,and effects," as specified in the Constitution's text,to include any areas where a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy." The reasonable expectation of privacy standard,now known as the Katz test,was formulated in a concurring opinion by Justice John Marshall Harlan II.
Elena Kagan is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court.
Kyllo v. United States,533 U.S. 27 (2001),was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court ruled that the use of thermal imaging devices to monitor heat radiation in or around a person's home,even if conducted from a public vantage point,is unconstitutional without a search warrant. In its majority opinion,the court held that thermal imaging constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment,as the police were using devices to "explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion." The ruling has been noted for refining the reasonable expectation of privacy doctrine in light of new surveillance technologies,and when those are used in areas that are accessible to the public.
Search incident to a lawful arrest,commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule,is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person,and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control,in the interest of officer safety,the prevention of escape,and the preservation of evidence.
Jerry Edwin Smith is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Herring v. United States,555 U.S. 135 (2009),was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14,2009. The court decided that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a police officer makes an arrest based on an outstanding warrant in another jurisdiction,but the information regarding that warrant is later found to be incorrect because of a negligent error by that agency.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the provost of Harvard University. He is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law. From 2017 to 2024,he was the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School.
Robert Charles Post is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at Yale Law School,where he served as the Dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to 2017.
The University of California,Berkeley School of Law is the law school of the University of California,Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years,although it was never the official name. This came from its initial building,the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law,named for John Henry Boalt. This name was transferred to an entirely new law school building in 1951 but was removed in 2020.
Ontario v. Quon,560 U.S. 746 (2010),is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the extent to which the right to privacy applies to electronic communications in a government workplace. It was an appeal by the city of Ontario,California,from a Ninth Circuit decision holding that it had violated the Fourth Amendment rights of two of its police officers when it disciplined them following an audit of pager text messages that discovered many of those messages were personal in nature,some sexually explicit. The Court unanimously held that the audit was work-related and thus did not violate the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
United States v. Jones,565 U.S. 400 (2012),was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that installing a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle and using the device to monitor the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.
Caleb E. Nelson is the Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University,B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute,a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy,and a former co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (2006–2013). His research focuses on constitutional law,property law,migration rights,and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy.
Riley v. California,573 U.S. 373 (2014),is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that the warrantless search and seizure of the digital contents of a cell phone during an arrest is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
William Patrick Baude is an American legal scholar who specializes in U.S. constitutional law. He currently serves as the Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and is the director of its Constitutional Law Institute. He is a scholar of constitutional law and originalism.
Gregory Eaton Maggs is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was previously the Arthur Selwyn Miller Research Professor of Law and co-director of the National Security &U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program at the George Washington University Law School.
Jesse Herbert Choper is an American constitutional law scholar and a former Dean of the University of California,Berkeley,School of Law,where he serves as the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law Emeritus.
