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Civil Rights in the United States

Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure Law

The Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World by Orin Kerr
ISBN: 9780190627072

Publication Date: 2025-01-10
Prosecutorial Misconduct: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers by Neal Stephens; Amanda Stephens James
Call Number: KF9640 .S725 2024

ISBN: 1639055169

Publication Date: 2024-10-22
The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing by Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Call Number: KF4558 4th .M36 2023

ISBN: 0472076337

Publication Date: 2023-08-22
Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing by Christopher Slobogin
Call Number: Online access

Publication Date: 2022

Available via De Gruyter e-book access.
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman
Call Number: KF5399 .F75 2017

ISBN: 9780374280451

Publication Date: 2017
Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment by Wayne R. LaFave
Call Number: Reserve KF9630 .L33 2020

ISBN: 9780314613875

Publication Date: 6th ed., 2020– (Updated periodically)

Preeminent treatise on Search and Seizure law.

Search & Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment by Wayne R. LaFave
Available on WestlawNext

The Fourth Amendment Handbook by William W. Greenhalgh
Call Number: KF9630 .G68 2019

ISBN: 9781641054829

Publication Date: 4th ed., 2019
Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century by Ric Simmons
Call Number: KF5399 .S56 2019 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9781108483605

Publication Date: 2019

Also available via Cambridge Core online access.
The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance by David C. Gray
Call Number: KF9630 .G67 2017 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9781107133235

Publication Date: 2017

Also available via Cambridge Core online access.

Criminal Law Texts & Treatises (Westlaw)
Fourth Amendment sources include: Checklists for Searches & Seizures in Public Schools; Search & Seizure Checklists; Search & Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment; Search Warrant Law Deskbook; Searches & Seizures, Arrests & Confessions; Vehicle Search Law Deskbook; Warrantless Search Law Deskbook
Checklists for Searches & Seizures in Public Schools (Westlaw)
Criminal Constitutional Law (Lexis)

The Fourth Amendment in Flux: The Roberts Court, Crime Control, and Digital Privacy by Michael C. Gizzi; R. Craig Curtis
Call Number: KF9630 .G59 2016

ISBN: 9780700622566

Publication Date: 2016
The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age by Laura K. Donohue
Call Number: KF4850 .D665 2016

ISBN: 9780190235383

Publication Date: 2016
The Fourth Amendment: Its History and Interpretation by Thomas K. Clancy
Call Number: KF9630 .C53 2017

ISBN: 9781531006341

Publication Date: 3rd ed., 2017
Making Sense of Search and Seizure Law: A Fourth Amendment Handbook by Phillip A. Hubbart
Call Number: KF9630 .H83 2015

ISBN: 9781611636154

Publication Date: 2nd ed., 2015
Criminal Procedure in Practice by Paul Marcus, Melanie D. Wilson, et al.
Call Number: KF9656 .M29 2018

ISBN: 9781641052474

Publication Date: 5th ed., 2018
Privacy, Information, and Technology by Daniel J. Solove, Paul M. Schwartz
Call Number: KF1262 .S664 2011

ISBN: 9780735510425

Publication Date: 3rd ed., 2011
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
Call Number: KF1262 .S65 2011

ISBN: 9780300172317

Publication Date: 2011
Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment by Christopher Slobogin
Call Number: KF4558 4th .S56 2007 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9780226762838

Publication Date: 2007

Also available via University Press Scholarship Online: Law online access.
A Short and Happy Guide to Criminal Procedure by Leslie Abramson
Call Number: E-book access via West Academic Study Aids

ISBN: 9798887862880

Publication Date: 6th ed., 2025

Access to e-book version limited to U of M Law students, faculty, and staff.
Print copy available on Reserve KF9619.85 .A28 2025
Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Limitations in a Nutshell by Jerold H. Israel, Wayne R. LaFave, et al.
Call Number: E-book access via West Academic Study Aids

ISBN: 9798887864327

Publication Date: 10th ed., 2024

Access to e-book version limited to U of M Law students, faculty, and staff.
Print copy available on Reserve KF9619.3 .I8 2024
Understanding Criminal Procedure Volume 1: Investigation by Joshua Dressler, Alan C. Michaels, et al.
Call Number: E-book access via Carolina Academic Press Study Aids

ISBN: 9781531021535

Publication Date: 8th ed., 2021

Access to e-book version limited to U of M Law students, faculty, and staff.
Print copy available on Reserve KF9619 .D74x 2021 v. 1
The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule by Tracey Maclin
Call Number: KF9662 .M25 2013

ISBN: 9780199795475

Publication Date: 2013
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court: A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights by Craig T. Hemmens, Rolando V. Del Carmen, et al.
Call Number: KF9630 .C75 2010

ISBN: 9781442201569

Publication Date: 2010
The Evolution of the Fourth Amendment by Thomas N. McInnis
Call Number: KF9630 .M38 2009

ISBN: 0739129783

Publication Date: 2009
Mapp V. Ohio: Guarding against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures by Carolyn N. Long
Call Number: KF224.M213 L66 2006

ISBN: 0700614400

Publication Date: 2006
Privacy in the Digital Age: 21st-Century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment by Nancy S. Lind, Erik Rankin (Editors)
Call Number: KF1262 .P747 2015

ISBN: 9781440829703

Publication Date: 2015
More Essential than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century by Stephen J. Schulhofer
Call Number: KF9630 .S38 2012

ISBN: 0199753229

Publication Date: 2012
The Legality of Search and Seizure in DUI Cases: Leading Lawyers on Understanding Law Enforcement Search Procedures, Challenging Seized Evidence, and Protecting Clients' Privacy Rights by Aspatore Books Staff (Compiled by)
Call Number: KF2231 .L44 2010

ISBN: 9780314267115

Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment by John R. Vile, David L. Hudson (Editors)
Call Number: Reference KF9630.A68 E53 2013 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9781604265897

Publication Date: 2013

Available via Sage Reference online access.
Against That "Powerful Engine of Despotism": The Fourth Amendment and General Warrants at the Founding and Today by Bruce A. Newman
Call Number: KF9630 .N49 2007

ISBN: 9780761836551

Publication Date: 2007
Kirwin on Minnesota Search and Seizure by Kenneth F Kirwin, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
Call Number: KF209 .M54x 2010 no.49

Publication Date: 2nd ed., 2010
The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning 602–1791 by William J. Cuddihy
Call Number: KF9630 .C83 2009 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9780195367195

Publication Date: 2009

Also available via Oxford Constitutional Law online access.
Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789–1868 by Andrew E. Taslitz
Call Number: KF9630 .T37 2006

ISBN: 9780814782637

Publication Date: 2006

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