Orin Ker
Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School
Orin S. Kerr is an Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches criminal law and computer crime law. From 1998 to 2001, Professor Kerr was a Trial Attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. At Justice, he authored DOJ's manual on searching and seizing computers and Internet surveillance law, and was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. After leaving the Justice Department, Professor Kerr has also performed pro bono work as a criminal defense lawyer.
Professor Kerr holds degrees in mechanical engineering 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. Professor Kerr's articles on Internet law and computer crime law have appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and several other journals. Professor Kerr hosts a free computer crime case update list which is maintained at http://hermes.circ.gwu.edu/archives/cybercrime.html, and he is currently under contract to write a law school casebook on computer crime law for West Publishers.
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Biography last updated March 21, 2003