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The Curious Lawyer: Bill of Rights - The Fourth Amendment

How Law Enforcement Uses Technology Within Constitutional Limits

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
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The Curious Lawyer: Bill of Rights - The Fourth Amendment

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the Fourth Amendment's role in modern surveillance: Learn how the amendment applies to technologies like GPS, text messages, and cellular data.
check_circleExamine key legal challenges to modern surveillance: Explore the use of online search histories and other digital tracking tools in criminal investigations.
check_circleAnalyze the constitutional limits on law enforcement: Review how the Fourth Amendment has been interpreted in light of emerging technologies.
check_circleDiscover the broader impact of the Bill of Rights: Gain insights into how the amendments interrelate and shape constitutional protections.
check_circleEngage with modern privacy law issues: Understand the balance between privacy rights and law enforcement's use of technology.

About This Course

Does the Fourth Amendment – which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures – bar law enforcement agencies from using on-line search histories, text messages, thermal tracking, GPS data or cellular phone pings to find and prosecute individuals?

In the latest installment of “The Curious Lawyer” series, Peter Afrasiabi takes a deep dive into each of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, reminding us what each amendment protects and illustrating its impact on the other constitutional protections we enjoy. 

Whether you are a budding constitutional scholar or simply looking for interesting facts to share at a cocktail party, the Bill of Rights series is for you.

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc. is a legal publishing company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops, produces, markets, and distributes innovative legal education content for law firms and companies. For more information about NMLP and its products, please visit  http://www.newmedialegal.com .

Peter  Afrasiabi
Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner at One, LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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