Orin S. Kerr

Orin S. Kerr is Michael A. Doyle '62 and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. A leading expert on the Fourth Amendment and criminal procedure, Kerr helped establish the field of computer crime law. Kerr was previously the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School. Among other terms of public service, Kerr served as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section from 1998 to 2001. He clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Kerr studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and Stanford University. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.