Prof. Orin Kerr previews the upcoming Supreme Court case, Elonis v. United States, which concerns when it is a federal crime to make threatening statements, including messages or postings on social networking web sites such as Facebook.
Orin S. Kerr is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure and computer crime law. Kerr earned mechanical engineering degrees from Princeton University and Stanford University before graduating with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the United States Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
