I am one of the Nation’s leading experts on the Fourth Amendment and the author of The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing (U. Mich. Press 2023). I also have broad expertise in other areas of criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, and evidence. I have been a professor of law since 2004 at the Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of law, teaching classes in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Adjudication, the Death Penalty, Evidence, and Sentencing. I have authored over two dozen law review articles on various topics, which have appeared in some of the top law journals in the country, including the Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, and Emory Law Journal. I have received several awards, both from my University and from national organizations, recognizing my talents in researching and writing in the criminal law and procedure space. Most recently, I was awarded a Regents Professorship by my school, an honor bestowed on only one faculty member university-wide every two years or so with an “exceptional record of achievements in scholarship . . . that has brought acclaim to the university.” In 2022, I was honored with election to the American Law Institute, the Nation’s leading organization dedicated to the clarification, simplification, and reform of the law. 

Prior to my entry into academia, I clerked for two federal judges, one in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and one on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. I then spent two years in New York City as a mid-level litigation associate in one of the most highly regarded law firms in the country. Finally, I practiced criminal appellate litigation at a public interest organization dedicated to ensuring the highest quality representation to indigent criminal defendants on appeal from their state court convictions in Manhattan and the Bronx. In each of these positions, I honed my craft as a legal researcher and brief writer. My skills in these areas are of the highest quality. 

I received my J.D. from Columbia University in 1994, where I was the Writing & Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. I received my B.A. as a double major in Political Science and Philosophy from SUNY-Binghamton, now known as Binghamton University, in upstate New York in 1991. I am admitted to the New York bar and the bars of a number of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. I am a native New Yorker but currently live in the Cincinnati area. 

My CV is available here. 

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