{"id":6441,"date":"2011-12-21T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T08:03:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T08:03:49","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6441","title":{"rendered":"Orin Kerr’s “An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment” now in Harv.L.Rev."},"content":{"rendered":"

Orin Kerr’s An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment, previously noted on Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>, has been published in the Harvard Law Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Worth a read, and the Table of Contents:<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION, 479
\nI. THE THEORY OF EQUILIBRIUM-ADJUSTMENT IN FOURTH AMENDMENT LAW, 482
\nA. The Fourth Amendment in Year Zero, 482
\nB. How New Facts Threaten the Balance of Power, 485
\nC. The Theory of Equilibrium-Adjustment and Six Scenarios, 487
\n1. The Government Uses a New Tool to Find Evidence, 489
\n2. Criminals Use a New Tool to Evade Detection, 489
\n3. New Crimes and New Practices, 489
\n4. Both Criminals and the Police Use a New Tool, 489
\n5. The Status Quo, 489
\n6. Defeating Countermeasures, 489
\nD. Equilibrium-Adjustment and Fourth Amendment Doctrine, at Both the Principles Layer and the Application Layer, 490
\nE. Equilibrium-Adjustment and Common Law Reasoning, 492
\nII. EXAMPLES OF EQUILIBRIUM-ADJUSTMENT IN FOURTH AMENDMENT LAW, 494
\nA. New Government Tools: Thermal Imagers, Beepers, and GPS Devices, 496
\n1. Thermal Imaging Devices, 496
\n2. Beepers and GPS Devices, 499
\n3. Sense-Enhancing Devices and Equilibrium-Adjustment, 501
\nB. New Tools to Commit Crime: The Automobile Exception, 502
\n1. How Automobiles Challenged the Privacy Balance of Year Zero, 503
\n2. Equilibrium-Adjustment and the Automobile Exception, 507
\nC. New Practices and New Crimes: The Subpoena Power and the End of the Mere Evidence Rule, 508
\n1. Rejecting the Equivalence Between Orders to Compel and Direct Physical Entry, 509
\n2. The End of the Mere Evidence Rule, 510
\nD. Both Sides Use a New Tool: Telephone Network Surveillance, 512
\n1. Contents of Telephone Calls: From Olmstead to Katz, 513
\n2. Surveillance of Numbers Dialed, 516
\nE. The Status Quo: Physical Entry into the Home, the Use of Undercover Agents, and
\nthe Law of Arrests, 517
\n1. The Special Protections of the Home, 517
\n2. Undercover Agents, 518
\n3. The Law of Arrests, 521
\nF. Defeating Countermeasures: Open Fields and Aerial Surveillance, 522
\n1. Crossing over Fences, 523<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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