Hello! My work broadly engages with the substantive criminal law, the regulation of policing, and our modes of criminal adjudication, including the intersections of those fields with modern technologies—I was, many moons ago, awarded the College of Engineering Medal for most outstanding graduate at the University of California, Davis. An elected member of the American Law Institute, I have done drafting work for the American Bar Association (Law Enforcement Access to Third Party Records, Reporter) and the Uniform Law Commission (Computer Crime, Co-Reporter); I am co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law; and I have served on various committees working with forensics, drone flight, generative AI, and police body cameras.

For over a decade, I wrote a great deal on privacy, big data, and the misguided Fourth Amendment third party doctrine, including developing a notion of “Fourth Amendment time machines” that was critical in the Supreme Court’s doctrinal pivot in Carpenter v. United States. While I continue that work—for example developing theories of privacy anxiety and neo-general warrants—in the past decade, I have also broadly tackled issues in pedagogy and the criminal law, including how developing technologies ought to influence both.

On the pedagogical front, I code an online resource for teaching criminal law with multimedia materials, and have developed first-of-their-kind textbooks that meld traditional Socratic, case-method learning with superior pedagogy, including integrated active learning and spaced repetition: Our Constitutional Constraints: Adjudication, Our Constitutional Constraints: Policing, and The Criminal Law. On the criminal law front, I have developed novel theories such as jury veto, role-reversibility, search and seizure budgets, and trial lottery, and I continue to interrogate what artificial general intelligence—if it comes—ought to mean for our systems of criminal justice.

More generally, I enjoy speaking, teaching, and collaborating; I will sometimes publish on random topics like vigilantism because they involve folks like Daredevil, Punisher, and Zorro; and I enjoy pondering everything from 80s music to the writing of Robertson Davies to the philosophy of world religions. When I’m not doing any of this, I’m likely spending time with my soulmate, Hilary, and/or our five kids. While the kids’ band Sheep Without Rights might be on permanent hiatus, its spirit will always live on.

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