Mathias Hong
@hongmathias.bsky.social
Human Rights & Constitutional Law • Prof. of Public Law (Kehl) (private account; reposts ≤ endorsement) • 2005-2008: law clerk @BVerfG (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) • https://verfassungsblog.de/author/mathias-hong/ • (Foto (c) U. Völkner)
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Wie Marco Rubio die Welt sieht.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Wie Marco Rubio die Welt sieht.
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Welche Gefährdungsszenarien gibt es aktuell für die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz? Wie können Gerichte widerstandsfähiger gemacht werden?
Mit @apbtutzing.bsky.social veranstaltet das Justiz-Projekt des @verfassungsblog.de eine Tagung zu diesen Fragen.
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Mit @apbtutzing.bsky.social veranstaltet das Justiz-Projekt des @verfassungsblog.de eine Tagung zu diesen Fragen.
www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/tag...
February 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Welche Gefährdungsszenarien gibt es aktuell für die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz? Wie können Gerichte widerstandsfähiger gemacht werden?
Mit @apbtutzing.bsky.social veranstaltet das Justiz-Projekt des @verfassungsblog.de eine Tagung zu diesen Fragen.
www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/tag...
Mit @apbtutzing.bsky.social veranstaltet das Justiz-Projekt des @verfassungsblog.de eine Tagung zu diesen Fragen.
www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/tag...
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Very helpful short intro on speaker's meaning and sentence meaning. One quick but imho crucial point: the mistake made by many if not most intentionalists is that they assume that the relationship between the two types of meaning is fixed across all communicative enterprises. It's not (necessarily)
Legal Theory Lexicon: Speaker’s Meaning and Sentence Meaning
Introduction Law students soon learn that the interpretation of legal texts is one of the most important things that lawyers and judges do. In a previous Legal Theory Lexicon entry, a distinction was made between "interpretation" and…
Introduction Law students soon learn that the interpretation of legal texts is one of the most important things that lawyers and judges do. In a previous Legal Theory Lexicon entry, a distinction was made between "interpretation" and…
Legal Theory Lexicon: Speaker’s Meaning and Sentence Meaning
Introduction Law students soon learn that the interpretation of legal texts is one of the most important things that lawyers and judges do. In a previous Legal Theory Lexicon entry, a distinction was made between "interpretation" and "construction." Although we could use other words to express the distinction, it expresses an important conceptual difference between two activities: (1) discovering the "meaning" of a legal text, and (2) determining the legal effect given to the text.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Very helpful short intro on speaker's meaning and sentence meaning. One quick but imho crucial point: the mistake made by many if not most intentionalists is that they assume that the relationship between the two types of meaning is fixed across all communicative enterprises. It's not (necessarily)
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Die Paritätsdebatte ist zurück.
Während in der Politik wieder Bewegung in dieser Frage herrscht, hat sich die rechtswissenschaftliche Debatte in eine Sackgasse manövriert.
FABIAN MICHL (@fmichl.bsky.social) zeigt, warum eine historische Perspektive weiterhilft.
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Während in der Politik wieder Bewegung in dieser Frage herrscht, hat sich die rechtswissenschaftliche Debatte in eine Sackgasse manövriert.
FABIAN MICHL (@fmichl.bsky.social) zeigt, warum eine historische Perspektive weiterhilft.
verfassungsblog.de/historische-...
February 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Die Paritätsdebatte ist zurück.
Während in der Politik wieder Bewegung in dieser Frage herrscht, hat sich die rechtswissenschaftliche Debatte in eine Sackgasse manövriert.
FABIAN MICHL (@fmichl.bsky.social) zeigt, warum eine historische Perspektive weiterhilft.
verfassungsblog.de/historische-...
Während in der Politik wieder Bewegung in dieser Frage herrscht, hat sich die rechtswissenschaftliche Debatte in eine Sackgasse manövriert.
FABIAN MICHL (@fmichl.bsky.social) zeigt, warum eine historische Perspektive weiterhilft.
verfassungsblog.de/historische-...
Michl: "Analysiert man die historischen Wahlrechtsdebatten, wird deutlich, dass ... die Förderung der weiblichen Repräsentanz stets als legitimes Ziel der Wahlsystemgestaltung betrachtet wurde".
Verfassungsgeschichte kann entkrampfen, auch die Debatte über #Parität im #Wahlrecht. Mehr dazu auf dem @verfassungsblog.de: verfassungsblog.de/historische-...
„In Bonn haben wir ja die Gleichberechtigung der Frau beschlossen.“
verfassungsblog.de
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Michl: "Analysiert man die historischen Wahlrechtsdebatten, wird deutlich, dass ... die Förderung der weiblichen Repräsentanz stets als legitimes Ziel der Wahlsystemgestaltung betrachtet wurde".
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TFW you're trying to understand how courts understood a doctrine 100 years ago, and you come across an old reference to a "leading case," which you look up, and it's by Learned Hand—and it explains beautifully exactly what you were trying to understand.
Lesson: L. Hand delivers.
Lesson: L. Hand delivers.
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 AM
TFW you're trying to understand how courts understood a doctrine 100 years ago, and you come across an old reference to a "leading case," which you look up, and it's by Learned Hand—and it explains beautifully exactly what you were trying to understand.
Lesson: L. Hand delivers.
Lesson: L. Hand delivers.
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Rubios Rede: Imperialistisch, revisionistisch, rassistisch im billigen rhetorischen Gewand. Muss sehr anstrengend sein, sich vorzumachen, dass das für freiheitliche Demokratien ein Kooperationsangebot sein könnte.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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February 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Rubios Rede: Imperialistisch, revisionistisch, rassistisch im billigen rhetorischen Gewand. Muss sehr anstrengend sein, sich vorzumachen, dass das für freiheitliche Demokratien ein Kooperationsangebot sein könnte.
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"Nur unter Missachtung [von Art. 26 GG ... ] konnte die Kammer zu der Auffassung kommen, die Rechtsfrage sei in Ramstein bereits entschieden." @meinel.bsky.social erklärt und kontextualisiert BVerfG zu Rüstungsexporten nach Israel verfassungsblog.de/karlsruher-s...
Karlsruher Sicherheitskonferenz
verfassungsblog.de
February 15, 2026 at 9:59 AM
"Nur unter Missachtung [von Art. 26 GG ... ] konnte die Kammer zu der Auffassung kommen, die Rechtsfrage sei in Ramstein bereits entschieden." @meinel.bsky.social erklärt und kontextualisiert BVerfG zu Rüstungsexporten nach Israel verfassungsblog.de/karlsruher-s...
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Das BVerfG hat eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen Genehmigungen für die Ausfuhr von Kriegsgerät nach Israel nicht zur Entscheidung angenommen.
FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über Pseudogrundrechtsschutz und das Verfassungsrecht des hybriden Krieges.
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FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über Pseudogrundrechtsschutz und das Verfassungsrecht des hybriden Krieges.
verfassungsblog.de/karlsruher-s...
February 15, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Das BVerfG hat eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen Genehmigungen für die Ausfuhr von Kriegsgerät nach Israel nicht zur Entscheidung angenommen.
FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über Pseudogrundrechtsschutz und das Verfassungsrecht des hybriden Krieges.
verfassungsblog.de/karlsruher-s...
FLORIAN MEINEL (@meinel.bsky.social) über Pseudogrundrechtsschutz und das Verfassungsrecht des hybriden Krieges.
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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"Der Fall wäre also prädestiniert dafür gewesen, zu demonstrieren, was so eine „Schutzpflicht“ des Grundgesetzes in der Praxis bedeutet. Zum Beispiel, dass man einem Staat, der sämtliche Regeln verletzt, keine Waffen liefert und auch keine Panzergetriebe.", meint Wolfgang Janisch von der SZ
Rüstungsexporte nach Israel: Der Beschluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts klingt zynisch
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat hohe rechtliche Maßstäbe für die Außenpolitik formuliert, sie aber nicht eingefordert, als es darauf ankam.
www.sueddeutsche.de
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 AM
"Der Fall wäre also prädestiniert dafür gewesen, zu demonstrieren, was so eine „Schutzpflicht“ des Grundgesetzes in der Praxis bedeutet. Zum Beispiel, dass man einem Staat, der sämtliche Regeln verletzt, keine Waffen liefert und auch keine Panzergetriebe.", meint Wolfgang Janisch von der SZ
"Consistent with our prior work, we find that the LLM adheres to the legally correct outcome significantly more often than human judges. In fact, the LLM makes no errors at all."
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment originally conducted on 61 U.S. federal judges, this time with GPT-5 as the decision-maker. The experiment involves a choice-of-law dispute in a hypothetical automobile accident case, where three variables are manipulated: (1) whether the applicable doctrine is a rule or a standard, (2) whether the plaintiff or defendant is portrayed more sympathetically, and (3) the location of the accident, which affects the legal outcome under different states' choice-of-law rules.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 AM
"Consistent with our prior work, we find that the LLM adheres to the legally correct outcome significantly more often than human judges. In fact, the LLM makes no errors at all."
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Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment originally conducted on 61 U.S. federal judges, this time with GPT-5 as the decision-maker. The experiment involves a choice-of-law dispute in a hypothetical automobile accident case, where three variables are manipulated: (1) whether the applicable doctrine is a rule or a standard, (2) whether the plaintiff or defendant is portrayed more sympathetically, and (3) the location of the accident, which affects the legal outcome under different states' choice-of-law rules.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence
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Sorry Leute: Es ist falsch, der AfD im Wahlkampf Stadthallen zu verweigern, solange sie eine legale Partei ist.
Oder auch, sich ein „Redeverbot“ gegen Björn Höcke auszubedingen, wie es der CSU-Bürgermeister in Lindenberg im Allgäu versucht hat.
Rechtlich falsch - und politisch.
Mein Kommentar:
Oder auch, sich ein „Redeverbot“ gegen Björn Höcke auszubedingen, wie es der CSU-Bürgermeister in Lindenberg im Allgäu versucht hat.
Rechtlich falsch - und politisch.
Mein Kommentar:
Bayern: Björn Höcke muss m Kommunalwahlkampf reden dürfen
Bürgermeister sollten es sich nicht anmaßen, Björn Höcke ihre Stadthallen vorzuenthalten.
www.sueddeutsche.de
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Sorry Leute: Es ist falsch, der AfD im Wahlkampf Stadthallen zu verweigern, solange sie eine legale Partei ist.
Oder auch, sich ein „Redeverbot“ gegen Björn Höcke auszubedingen, wie es der CSU-Bürgermeister in Lindenberg im Allgäu versucht hat.
Rechtlich falsch - und politisch.
Mein Kommentar:
Oder auch, sich ein „Redeverbot“ gegen Björn Höcke auszubedingen, wie es der CSU-Bürgermeister in Lindenberg im Allgäu versucht hat.
Rechtlich falsch - und politisch.
Mein Kommentar:
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My review of two new books on Habermas for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
My review of two new books on Habermas for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
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𝐄𝐢𝐥:: Redeverbote für Björn #Höcke sind unzulässig. Der BayVGH schafft bayernweit Klarheit, nachdem zwei Verwaltungsgerichte unterschiedlich entschieden. www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
Redeverbot für Björn Höcke ist rechtswidrig
Zwei Gemeinden in Bayern machten AfD-Veranstaltungen von der Auflage abhängig, dass Björn Höcke nicht auftritt. Rechtswidrig wie jetzt das BayVGH entschied.
www.lto.de
February 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
𝐄𝐢𝐥:: Redeverbote für Björn #Höcke sind unzulässig. Der BayVGH schafft bayernweit Klarheit, nachdem zwei Verwaltungsgerichte unterschiedlich entschieden. www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
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Kriener on the International Law of Peaceful Protest
Florian Kriener (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Yale Law School) has posted Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The regulation of peaceful protest in…
Florian Kriener (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Yale Law School) has posted Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The regulation of peaceful protest in…
Kriener on the International Law of Peaceful Protest
Florian Kriener (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Yale Law School) has posted Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The regulation of peaceful protest in international law remains a largely uncharted territory. Despite the pivotal role protests retain in societal conflicts and the implementation of international rights, the absence of explicit recognition and thorough examination in international treaties and legal scholarship presents a significant gap.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Kriener on the International Law of Peaceful Protest
Florian Kriener (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Yale Law School) has posted Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The regulation of peaceful protest in…
Florian Kriener (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Yale Law School) has posted Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The regulation of peaceful protest in…
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The Court of Justice of the EU has recently clarified that Frontex is subject to effective judicial accountability.
GEORGIOS ATHANASIOU explains how the Court’s ruling in Hamoudi could reshape a pending case against the Agency.
verfassungsblog.de/hamoudis-bur...
GEORGIOS ATHANASIOU explains how the Court’s ruling in Hamoudi could reshape a pending case against the Agency.
verfassungsblog.de/hamoudis-bur...
February 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
The Court of Justice of the EU has recently clarified that Frontex is subject to effective judicial accountability.
GEORGIOS ATHANASIOU explains how the Court’s ruling in Hamoudi could reshape a pending case against the Agency.
verfassungsblog.de/hamoudis-bur...
GEORGIOS ATHANASIOU explains how the Court’s ruling in Hamoudi could reshape a pending case against the Agency.
verfassungsblog.de/hamoudis-bur...
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a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.
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Whistling at the Edge of Law
The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.
lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
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Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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For those who care less about the planet here’s the local angle: climate change is going to hit your wallet: www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
How EPA 'endangerment finding' repeal could impact your wallet
The Trump administration dismantled a key defense in the U.S. fight against climate change. Experts say that may have far-reaching impacts on people's finances.
www.cnbc.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
For those who care less about the planet here’s the local angle: climate change is going to hit your wallet: www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
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Today, the IOC withdrew the Olympic accreditation of Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych over his “Helmet of Remembrance.”
ANTOINE DUVAL and MARK JAMES argue the disqualification is unlawful – and that the ban on athlete “expression” violates human rights.
verfassungsblog.de/disqualify-v...
ANTOINE DUVAL and MARK JAMES argue the disqualification is unlawful – and that the ban on athlete “expression” violates human rights.
verfassungsblog.de/disqualify-v...
February 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Today, the IOC withdrew the Olympic accreditation of Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych over his “Helmet of Remembrance.”
ANTOINE DUVAL and MARK JAMES argue the disqualification is unlawful – and that the ban on athlete “expression” violates human rights.
verfassungsblog.de/disqualify-v...
ANTOINE DUVAL and MARK JAMES argue the disqualification is unlawful – and that the ban on athlete “expression” violates human rights.
verfassungsblog.de/disqualify-v...
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Slocum & Tobia on Pragmatic Textualism
Brian G. Slocum (Florida State University - College of Law) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center) have posted Pragmatic Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Traditional textualism instructs judges to adhere to a statute’s linguistic meaning…
Brian G. Slocum (Florida State University - College of Law) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center) have posted Pragmatic Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Traditional textualism instructs judges to adhere to a statute’s linguistic meaning…
Slocum & Tobia on Pragmatic Textualism
Brian G. Slocum (Florida State University - College of Law) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center) have posted Pragmatic Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Traditional textualism instructs judges to adhere to a statute’s linguistic meaning and reject as irrelevant its interpretive consequences. Justice Scalia famously contrasted his restrained textualist judge with “Mr. Fix-It,” a judge who inappropriately weighs consequences.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Slocum & Tobia on Pragmatic Textualism
Brian G. Slocum (Florida State University - College of Law) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center) have posted Pragmatic Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Traditional textualism instructs judges to adhere to a statute’s linguistic meaning…
Brian G. Slocum (Florida State University - College of Law) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center) have posted Pragmatic Textualism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Traditional textualism instructs judges to adhere to a statute’s linguistic meaning…
Granick on Orin Kerr, "The Digital Fourth Amendment"
"Kerr knows that technology has generally been a boon for law enforcement".
"The primary purpose of his book is to argue that courts should" account "for this shift in the balance of power...".
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"Kerr knows that technology has generally been a boon for law enforcement".
"The primary purpose of his book is to argue that courts should" account "for this shift in the balance of power...".
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February 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Granick on Orin Kerr, "The Digital Fourth Amendment"
"Kerr knows that technology has generally been a boon for law enforcement".
"The primary purpose of his book is to argue that courts should" account "for this shift in the balance of power...".
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"Kerr knows that technology has generally been a boon for law enforcement".
"The primary purpose of his book is to argue that courts should" account "for this shift in the balance of power...".
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