Biographical Sketch
Professor Kerr teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and computer crime law. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, and many other journals. His scholarly articles have been cited by most of the U.S. Courts of Appeals as well as a number of district courts and state courts.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Kerr was an honors program trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice as well as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also is a former law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In the summer of 2009, he served as Special Counsel to Senator John Cornyn for the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 2006, Kerr was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Kerr is a co-author of the leading casebook in criminal procedure with Yale Kamisar, Wayne LaFave, Jerold Israel, and Nancy King, now in its 12th Edition. He is also a co-author of the leading treatise in criminal procedure (with LaFave, Israel, and King) and is the author of a law school casebook on computer crime law. Kerr is frequently interviewed by major media outlets, and his scholarship and advocacy have been profiled in the New York Times and National Public Radio.

The GW Law Class of 2009 voted to award Professor Kerr the Distinguished Faculty Service Award, the law school’s teaching award. Before attending law school, Kerr earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. Kerr posts regularly at the popular weblog “The Volokh Conspiracy,” available at http://volokh.com. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Education
B.S.E., Princeton University; M.S., Stanford University; J.D., Harvard University

Current Semester Courses
Computer Crimes; Criminal Procedure