The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...

Is America now in the business of weaponizing our private data against Americans? It’s a question we should be asking.

A federal judge has ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s practice of conducting arrests with masked, unidentifiable agents violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable seizures.

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...

I am pleased to post the final version of my new article Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment, just out in the Boston College Law Review. Here's the abstract: An ...

Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the bipartisan SAFE Act on February 23, 2026, a bill that would ...

Like your phone, a drone can record everything. The question in Hawaiʻi courts is simple. Was that footage captured legally?

Eight Republican-appointed judges in the Ninth Circuit criticized a decision not to revisit a ruling which removed the grant of qualified immunity for police officers based on the “hot pursuit” ...

Esther Yoo, Assistant Law Professor and Director of the Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Hawaii ...

Este artículo también está disponible en español. One of the sticking points in the standoff between Democrats and Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has been the Trump ...

Iowa House advances ‘Katie’s Law’ requiring DNA collection after certain arrests ...