About

Jonathan Kerr is an Assistant Professor of Law at Delaware Law School. He was previously a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he taught and supervised students representing clients in misdemeanor cases in Baltimore city. He was awarded the 2025 James May Faculty Award from the Student Bar Association for Outstanding Contributions in Teaching and Service to Students.

Professor Kerr is admitted to practice in Maryland. Before entering academia, he was an assistant public defender in the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore city for almost ten years. As a public defender, he represented indigent clients at trial in misdemeanor and felony cases on charges ranging from traffic offenses to first-degree murder. Professor Kerr also has experience practicing in the fields of labor and employment law and civil litigation in the state of New York.

Professor Kerr’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of the Fourth Amendment and information in the digital age. His article, Riding on Horseback to the Moon: Consent Searches in the Age of Smartphones and Digital Tracking, concerns consent searches of cell phones via data extraction and was published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. He is currently working on a piece which puts forward an argument for legislative regulation of the retention and use of seized digital data in criminal cases.

Professor Kerr is from Northern Ireland and was educated in the United Kingdom, graduating with an LL.B. in Law with Politics from Queen’s University of Belfast. Before moving to the United States, he qualified and practiced in London as a barrister specializing in criminal law. He has also earned an LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham.