Ongoing: co-host of the popular podcast What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: a regular series about currents events and the Constitution.

Research: I write about how the police use new technologies: what’s new about it (mass surveillance, corporate power), and what isn’t (inequality, discrimination, discretion).

Fourth Amendment Rights as Abortion Rights, N.Y.U. L. Forum (2023).

Dobbs Online: Digital Rights as Abortion Rights, in Feminist Cyberlaw (2023).

The Unexpected Consequences of Automation in Policing, 75 SMU L. Rev. 507 (2022)

Ethical AI in American Policing, 3 Notre Dame J. Emerging Tech. 1 (2022)

The Harms of Police Surveillance Technology Monopolies, Denver L. Rev. Forum 1 (2022)(with Thomas Joo).

Reckless Automation in Policing, Berkeley Tech. L. J. 116 (2022).

Networked Self-Defense and Monetized Vigilantism: Private Surveillance Systems, 43 Archives de Politique Criminelle 195 (2021) DOI : 10.3917/apc.043.0195

A Gig Surveillance Economy, Hoover Institution Aegis Series Paper No. 2108 (Nov. 2021).

The Corporate Shadow In Democratic Policing, 374 Science 274 (Oct. 2021).

Policing, Race, & Technology, 2021 Univ. Ill. Law. Rev. Online: Biden 100 Days 84 (2021).

COVID-19 Sewage Testing as a Police Surveillance Infrastructure,  2 Notre Dame J. Emerging Technologies 233 (2021).

Increasing Automation in Policing, Communications of the ACM (Jan. 2020).

The Consequences of Automating and Deskilling the Police, 67 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 134 (2019).

Automated Seizures: Police Stops of Self-Driving Cars,  94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 292 (2019).

Artificial Intelligence and Policing: Hints in the Carpenter Decision, 16 Ohio St. J. Crim. Law 281 (2019).

Policing the Smart City, 15 International Journal of Law in Context 177 (2019).

Policing and Artificial Intelligence: Opening questions,  41 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1139 (2018).

Automated Policing, 15 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 559 (2018).

Private Security Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Deadly Force, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 569 (2017).

Feeding the Machine: Policing, Crime Data, & Algorithms, 26 William & Mary Bill of Rights J. 2 (2017).

The Undue Influence of Surveillance Technology Vendors on Policing, 92 N.Y.U.  L. Rev. Online 101 (2017).

Policing Police Robots, ­­64 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. Discourse 516 (2016).

Beyond Surveillance: Data Control and Police Body Cameras, 14 Surveillance & Society 133 (2016).

The New Surveillance Discretion: Automated Suspicion, Big Data and Policing, 10 Harvard L. & Pol’y Rev. 15 (2016).

The Myth of Arrestee DNA Expungement, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 51 (2015).

The Corporation as Snitch: The New DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting White Collar Crime (with Thomas Joo), 101 Va. L. Rev. Online 51 (2015).

Sting Victims: Third Party Harms in Undercover Police Operations (with Thomas Joo), 88 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1309 (2015).

Bait, Mask & Ruse: Technology and Police Deception 128 Harv. L. Rev. F. 246 (2015)

Should Arrestee DNA Databases Extend to Misdemeanors? 8 J. Recent Advances DNA & Gene Sequences 1 (2015).

Policing by Numbers: Big Data and the Fourth Amendment, 89 Wash. L. Rev. 35 (2014) (symposium).

Maryland v. King: Policing and Genetic Privacy (Term Paper Series), 11 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. ­­281 (2013).

Privacy Protests: Surveillance Evasion and Fourth Amendment Suspicion, 55 Ariz. L. Rev. 997 (2013).

DNA Theft: Recognizing the Crime of Nonconsensual Genetic Collection and Analysis, 91 Boston Univ. L. Rev. 665 (2011)

Breaking the Law to Enforce It: Undercover Police Participation in Crime, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 155 (2009).

Imagining the Addict: Evaluating Social and Legal Responses to Addiction, 2009 Utah L. Rev. ­­175 (2009) (Drugs: Addiction, Therapy, and Crime symposium).

Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 199 (2007).

The Forgotten Threat: Private Police and the State (symposium), 13 Ind. J. Global L. Stud. 357 (2006).

Reclaiming “Abandoned” DNA: The Fourth Amendment and Genetic Privacy, 100 Nw. Univ. L. Rev. 2 (2006).

Conceptualizing the Private Police, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 573 (2005).

The Paradox of Private Policing, 95 J. Crim. L. & Criminol. 49 (2004).

Custom, Tribal Court Practice, and Popular Justice, 25 Am. Indian L. Rev. 117 (2001).

Narrating Pain: The Problem With Victim Impact Statements, 10 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 17 (2000).

“If It Suffices to Accuse”: United States v. Watts and the Reassessment of Acquittals, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 887 (1999).

Tremors on the Racial Fault Line? The Black Church Fires of 1996 (James B. Jacobs, co-author), 34 Crim. L. Bulletin 497 (1998).