Introducing Guest Blogger Andrew Taslitz

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m pleased to introduce Professor Andrew Taslitz, who will be guest blogging with us this month. Andy is the Welsh S. White Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2008-09, and Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. He has also taught at the Duke University and Villanova University Schools of Law.

Andy teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Free Speech and has also taught advanced courses in most of those areas, as well as Terrorism and the Law and Professional Responsibility. He has published over 100 works. His scholarship covers a diverse range of topics within criminal justice but recently has focused on Fourth Amendment privacy issues, the Thirteenth Amendment’s modern application to the criminal justice system, the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination, prosecutorial practices, innocence issues, and the connection between compassion and the law of excuses. This recent work has primarily involved either a re-examination of relevant constitutional history or an exploration of the implications of cognitive science for criminal justice. Andy is also involved in several empirical projects, including an archival study of search warrant practices and an experimental study on the efficacy of certain jury instructions.

Andy is the Reporter for the Committee on Drafting a Uniform Code on Recordation of Custodial Interrogations of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; a member of an advisory committee to a National Institute of Justice field study of reforms of eyewitness identification procedures; an incoming member of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Governing Council and of that Section’s Criminal Justice periodical Editorial Board, as well as chairing the Section’s Book Board Committee; and a member of the ABA’s Committee on Standards for Transactional Surveillance. He is also a former member of a National Academy of Sciences committee on bomb-blast terrorism created in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and a former Co-Reporter for the Death Penalty Initiative of the Constitution Project and has served as chair of both the AALS Criminal Justice and Evidence Sections. Before entering academia, Andy was a prosecutor in Philadelphia, PA. and, before that, an associate in the litigation department of Schnader, Harrison, Segal, and Lewis. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Some of his publications include:

* RECONSTRUCTING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: A HISTORY OF SEARCH AND SEIZURE, 1789-1868 (paperback ed. 2009)

* RAPE AND THE CULTURE OF THE COURTROOM (1999)

* Confessing in the Human Voice: A Defense of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 6 CARDOZO J. PUB. L., POL’Y, & ETHICS 121 (2009)

* Temporal Adversarialism, Criminal Justice, and the Rehnquist Court: the Sluggish Life of Political Factfinding, 94 GEO. L. J. 1589 (2006)

May 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm Posted in: Administrative Announcements Print This Post