Faculty Member, School of Law
Professor of Law
About
Andrew E. Taslitz is the Welsh S. White Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. He has also taught at the Duke University and Villanova University Schools of Law. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Free Speech, Terrorism and the Law, and advanced courses in those areas. He has published over 100 scholarly works, including five books. His most recent book is Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868 (paperback ed. 2009), published by New York University Press, which also published his earlier book, Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom (1999). His other three books are co-authored and include Criminal Law: Concepts and Practice (2d ed. 2009); Constitutional Criminal Procedure (3d ed. 2007); and Evidence Law and Practice (3d ed. 2007), as well as a forthcoming two-volume treatise on criminal procedure. His articles have been published in such journals as the Georgetown Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review, Duke University’s Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, and Northwestern University’s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
Professor Taslitz is the Reporter for the Committee on a Model Statute for the Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and was the former Co-Reporter for the Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative, as well as having co-authored the monograph-length Legal Appendix to a National Academy of Sciences Report on Preventing Bomb-Blast Terrorism in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing. He is also currently a member of the ABA Committee on Transactional Surveillance Standards, a member of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Governing Council (starting August 2009), a member of its Criminal Justice periodical Editorial Board (and the Board’s former Chair), Chair of that Section’s Book Committee, as well as having previously served as its Director of the Communications Division, Chair of its Committee on Race and Racism, and Chair of the Eyewitness Identification Subcommittee of its Committee on Innocence and the Integrity of the Criminal Justice System. Professor Taslitz is also a former chair of both the Evidence and Criminal Justice Sections of the American Association of Law Schools.
Contact Information
Howard University School of Law
2900 Van Ness St., NW
Washington, DC 20008
202-806-8029
