Orin Kerr

Orin S. Kerr is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School^[1] and a leading scholar in the subjects of computer crime law and internet surveillance.^[2] In the fall of 2006, he visited as an associate professor at the University of Chicago Law School. ^[3] He is one of the contributors to the weblog (blog), The Volokh Conspiracy. In March 2006, he began his own legal blog, OrinKerr.com ^[4]. He suspended posting to his blog in September 2006.^[5]

Kerr was born in 1971, in Delaware, graduated from Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE, received his B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. From 1998 to 2001, he was employed as an Honors Program trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division.

Before joining the faculty at The George Washington University Law School, Kerr served as a law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He later took a leave of absence from the law school to clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court during October Term 2003.