Ric Simmons is the Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and Rule of Law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. He is the co-author of four textbooks on evidence and criminal procedure, and he has published over two dozen scholarly articles in law journals. His scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment and how courts and legislatures should react to the impact of new technologies in regulating surveillance.
'... is an impressively presented work of meticulous scholarship and a critically important contribution to our on-going national discussion over the proper role of the government's use of technology within the constitutional context of citizen privacy and the necessities of national security ... it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental security officials, political activists, and non-specialist general readers ...' Midwest Book Review '... is an impressively presented work of meticulous scholarship and a critically important contribution to our on-going national discussion over the proper role of the government's use of technology within the constitutional context of citizen privacy and the necessities of national security ... it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental security officials, political activists, and non-specialist general readers ...' Midwest Book Review