Orin S. Kerr

Orin S. Kerr is an Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches criminal law and computer crime.

Before entering academia, Professor Kerr was a trial attorney at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice for three years. At Justice, he authored DOJ’s manual on Internet surveillance law, Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations, and was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. After leaving the Justcie Department, Professor Kerr has also performed pro bono work as a criminal defense lawyer in computer hacking cases.

Professor Kerr holds engineering degrees from Princeton and Stanford, and received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His scholarly articles have been published in many journals, including the William & Mary Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

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