Recent Developments in the Law Concerning Computer Forensics

Bio: Orin S. Kerr is a Professor of Law at George Washington University, where he teaches computer crime law, criminal procedure, and criminal law. Before joining the faculty in 2001, Kerr was a Trial Attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Kerr is a co-author of the leading treatise and the leading casebook in Criminal Procedure (with Kamisar, LaFave, Israel, and King), and he is also the author of a solo-authored casebook, Computer Crime Law.

Professor Kerr earned a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2006, Kerr was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School.