Sherry Colb was one of the most innovative Fourth Amendment thinkers of her generation. Every criminal procedure buff has something to say about search and seizure law, but Sherry was one of the few scholars who added to the canon. In particular, her two articles in Columbia Law Review, Innocence, Privacy, and Targeting in Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, published in 1996, and The Qualitative Dimensions of Fourth Amendment “Reasonableness,” published in 1998, opened up new ways of thinking about how the Fourth Amendment should be construed. Here I want to say a few words about what she taught me and others about the Fourth Amendment, and then a few more words about how her work might be extended in new directions.
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