Ferguson, Andrew

GW Law Faculty Publications

August 1, 2025

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BOOKS

The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence - Expert Evidence (3d ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2021) (with David Kaye, David Bernstein, Maggie Wittlin & Jennifer Mnookin eds.).

The Law of Law School: The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students (NYU Press, 2020) (with Jonathan Newton).

The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (NYU Press, 2017).

Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action (NYU Press, 2013).

Youth Justice in America (2d ed., CQ Press, 2015) (with Jamin B. Raskin & Maryam Ahranjani).

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Video Analytics and Fourth Amendment Vision, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 1253 (2025).

Digital Rummaging, 101 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1473 (2024).

Digital Habit Evidence, 72 Duke L.J. 723 (2023).

Courts Without Court, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 1461 (2022).

Persistent Surveillance, 74 Ala. L. Rev. 1 (2022).

Why Digital Policing is Different, 83 Ohio St. L.J. 817 (2022).

Surveillance and the Tyrant Test, 110 Geo. L.J. 205 (2021).

Facial Recognition and the Fourth Amendment, 105 Minn. L. Rev. 1105 (2021).

Florida v. Jardines: The Distortions of Implied Artistic License, in Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights 234 (M.C. Mirow & Howard M. Wasserman eds., Brill, 2021).

Big Data Prosecution and Brady, 67 UCLA L. Rev. 180 (2020).

Structural Sensor Surveillance, 106 Iowa L. Rev. 47 (2020).

The Exclusionary Rule in the Age of Blue Data, 72 Vand. L. Rev. 561 (2019).

Predictive Policing Theory, in Cambridge Handbook on Policing in the United States 491 (Tamara Rice Lave & Eric J. Miller eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019).

Illuminating Black Data Policing, 15 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 503 (2018).

The “Smart” Fourth Amendment, 102 Corn. L. Rev. 547 (2017).

Policing Predictive Policing, 94 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1109 (2017).

The Miranda App: Metaphor and Machine, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 935 (2017) (with Richard A. Leo).

Big Data Surveillance: The Convergence of Big Data and Law Enforcement, in Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law 171 (David Gray & Stephen E. Henderson eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017).

The Internet of Things and the Fourth Amendment of Effects, 104 Cal. L. Rev. 805 (2016).

Policing Criminal Justice Data, 101 Minn. L. Rev. 541 (2016) (with Wayne A. Logan).

The Big Data Jury, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. 935 (2016).

Predictive Prosecution, 51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 705 (2016).

LAW-n Signs: A Fourth Amendment for Constitutional Curmudgeons, 13 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 487 (2016) (with Stephen Henderson).

Big Data and Predictive Reasonable Suspicion, 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. 327 (2015).

Defending Data, 88 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1057 (2015) (with Pamela Metzger).

Trial by Google: Judicial Notice in the Information Age, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1137 (2014) (with Jeffrey Bellin).

Personal Curtilage: Fourth Amendment Security in Public, 55 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1283 (2014).

The Jury as Constitutional Identity, 47 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1105 (2014).

Constitutional Culpability: Questioning the New Exclusionary Rules, 66 Fla. L. Rev. 623 (2014).

Big Data Distortions: Exploring the Limits of the ABA LEATPR Standards, 66 Okla. L. Rev. 831 (2014).

Jury Instructions as Constitutional Education, 84 U. Colo. L. Rev. 233 (2013).

Predictive Policing and Reasonable Suspicion, 62 Emory L.J. 259 (2012).

The Dialogue Approach to Miranda Warnings and Waiver, 49 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1437 (2012).

Crime Mapping and the Fourth Amendment: Redrawing “High Crime Areas”, 63 Hastings L.J. 179 (2011).

The “High-Crime Area” Question: Requiring Verifiable and Quantifiable Evidence for Fourth Amendment Reasonable Suspicion Analysis, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 1587 (2008) (with Damien Bernache).

OTHER

DOJ Funding Pipeline Subsidizes Questionable Big Data Surveillance Technologies, The Conversation (Feb. 7, 2024, at 8:19 ET), https://theconversation.com/doj-funding-pipeline-subsidizes-questionable-big-data-surveillance-technologies-222699.

“Why Jury Duty Matters” Goes to Hollywood, NYU Press Blog (Jan. 16, 2024), https://nyupress.org/blog/2024/01/16/why-jury-duty-matters-goes-to-hollywood-by-andrew-guthrie-ferguson/.

Opinion, Big Data Policing is Coming to Small Towns. There’s a Reason Big Cities Reject It., News Leader (Mar. 23, 2021, 12:05 ET), https://www.newsleader.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/big-data-policing-coming-your-town-theres-reason-failed-big-cities/4614693001/.

Opinion, It’s Time for Washington to Regulate Surveillance Technology, Wash. Post (June 26, 2020), https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/its-time-for-dc-to-regulate-police-surveillance-technology/2020/06/25/9e94feb6-b57a-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html.

High-Tech Surveillance Amplifies Police Bias and Overreach, The Conversation (June 20, 2020, at 8:15 ET), https://theconversation.com/high-tech-surveillance-amplifies-police-bias-and-overreach-140225.

Opinion, Here’s a Way Forward on Facial Recognition, N.Y. Times (Oct. 31, 2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/facial-recognition-regulation.html.

The Legal Risk of Big Data Policing, Crim. Just., Summer 2018, at 4.

Brief of Scholars of Criminal Procedure and Privacy as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner, Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018) (No. 16-402).

Future-Proofing the Fourth Amendment, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (June 25, 2018), https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2018/06/future-proofing-the-fourth-amendment/.

The High-Definition, Artificially Intelligent, All-Seeing Future of Big Data Policing, ACLU (Apr. 4, 2018), https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-high-definition-artificially-intelligent-all-seeing-future-of-big-data-policing.

The Truth About Predictive Policing and Race, Medium (Dec. 7, 2017), https://medium.com/in-justice-today/the-truth-about-predictive-policing-and-race-b87cf7c070b1.

Why We Need Local Surveillance Summits, Medium (Nov. 27, 2017), https://medium.com/in-justice-today/why-we-need-local-surveillance-summits-95af6b59ba7a.

The Fragmented Surveillance State, Slate (Nov. 10, 2017, at 9:11 ET), https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/the-united-states-fragmented-surveillance-system.html.

Opinion, The Future of Policing and the End of Privacy, 52 Insights (Oct. 20, 2017), https://www.52-insights.com/news/op-ed-the-future-of-policing-and-the-end-of-privacy-andrew-ferguson/.

How the Manhattan DA’s Use of Big Data Targeting Risks Changing the Rules of Prosecution, The Appeal (Oct. 10, 2017), https://theappeal.org/how-the-manhattan-das-use-of-big-data-targeting-risks-changing-the-rules-of-prosecution/.

The Police are Using Computer Algorithms to Tell if You’re a Threat, Time (Oct. 3, 2017, at 11:29 ET), https://time.com/4966125/police-departments-algorithms-chicago/.

Policing Risk: Predicting the Litigation Risk in Predictive Policing Tech, HuffPost (July 11, 2017, at 16:46 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/policing-risk-predicting-the-litigation-risk-in-predictive_b_5965377fe4b0911162fc2f83.

Policing Risk: Could Lawyers Stop Tech’s New Vision for Police Body-Worn Cameras?, HuffPost (June 15, 2017, at 10:07 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/policing-risk-could-lawyers-stop-techs-new-vision_b_59429314e4b04c03fa261865.

Opinion, Ever Heard of Bill Cosby, N.Y. Times (Mar. 3, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/opinion/ever-heard-of-bill-cosby.html.

In Criminal Justice, the “Simple” Solutions are Usually Wrong, Crime Rep. (Jan. 31, 2017), (with James Doyle).

A Juror Bill of Rights, The Atlantic (Sept. 11, 2015), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-juror-bill-of-rights/404833/.

Why Jury Duty is a Character Issue, Huffington Post (Aug 18, 2015, at 12:30 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-jury-duty-is-a-charac_b_8004734.

Predicting Predictive Policing in NYC, Huffington Post (July 8, 2015, at 16:59 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/predicting-predictive-pol_b_7757200.

What’s the Most American Thing You Can Do?, CNN (July 3, 2015, at 16:59 ET), https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/03/opinions/ferguson-jury-duty-american-act.

The Trauma of Jury Duty, Atlantic (May 17, 2015), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-trauma-of-jury-duty/393479/.

Everyday Justice in the District, Huffington Post (May 12, 2015, at 11:35 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/everyday-justice-in-the-d_b_7266222.

Creating Smarter Police Body-Worn Cameras, Huffington Post (Dec. 8, 2014, at 10:59 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/creating-smarter-police-b_b_6288482.

Why Grand Jurors Matter, From the Square: NYU Press Blog (Nov. 26, 2014).

A Constitutional Book Drive, Huffington Post (Sept. 10, 2014, at 11:21 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-constitutional-book-dri_b_5797738.

Save Our Juries, Save Our Constitution, Huffington Post (Sept. 7, 2014, at 9:56 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/save-our-juries-save-our_b_5835532.

Policing ‘Stop and Frisk’ with ‘Stop and Track’ Policing, Huffington Post (Aug. 17, 2014, at 16:54 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/policing-stop-and-frisk-w_b_5686208.

Do Jurors Become Better Citizens, Huffington Post (July 25, 2014, at 13:34 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/do-jurors-become-better-c_b_5621396.

Big Data Policing in the Big Apple, Huffington Post (July 15, 2014, at 11:13 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-data-policing-in-the_b_5588009.

The Juror Voices Project, Huffington Post (June 4, 2014, at 16:24 ET), https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-juror-voices-project_b_5440573.

Private: Are We Failing the Citizenship Test?, ACS Blog (Jan. 31, 2014), https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/are-we-failing-the-citizenship-test/.

Harsh Sentences are Killing the Jury Trial, The Atlantic (Dec. 6, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/harsh-sentences-are-killing-the-jury-trial/282121/.

Private: The Danger in Disrespecting Jurors, ACS Blog (Nov. 25, 2013), https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/the-danger-in-disrespecting-jurors/.

The U.S. Constitution Needs You, The Atlantic (Sept. 17, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/the-us-constitution-needs-you/279722/.

On the Zimmerman Jurors, ACS Blog (July 16, 2013).

The Zimmerman Trial and the Meaning of Verdicts, The Atlantic (July 12, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-zimmerman-trial-and-the-meaning-of-verdicts/277724/.

Why the George Zimmerman Trial’s All-Female Jury Is News, The Atlantic (June 21, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/why-the-george-zimmerman-trials-all-female-jury-is-news/277103/.

What Commencement Speeches Leave Out, The Atlantic (May 17, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-commencement-speeches-leave-out/275937/.

Why Restrict Jury Duty to Citizens?, The Atlantic (May 9, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-restrict-jury-duty-to-citizens/275685/.

The Joy of Jury Duty, The Atlantic (May 3, 2013), https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-joy-of-jury-duty/275444/.

Private: Jury Duty is Constitution Duty, ACS Blog (Feb. 21, 2013), https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/jury-duty-is-constitution-duty/.

Waiting for Democracy, NYU Press Blog (Jan. 23, 2013),https://nyupress.org/blog/2013/01/23/waiting-for-democracy/.

“Predictive Policing” and the Fourth Amendment, Am. Crim. L. Rev. Online (Nov. 28, 2011).