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Bloom on Border Searches

By Lawrence Solum

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Robert M. Bloom (Boston College - Law School) has posted Border Searches in the Age of Terrorism (Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 78, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This article will first explore the history of border searches. It will look to the reorganization of the border enforcement apparatus resulting from 9/11 as well as the intersection of the Fourth Amendment and border searches generally. Then, it will analyze the Supreme Court's last statement on border searches in the Flores-Montano27 decision, including what impact this decision has had on the lower courts. Finally, the article will focus on Fourth Amendment cases involving terrorism concerns after 9/11, as a means of drawing some conclusions about the effect the emerging emphasis on terrorism and national security concerns will likely have on border searches in this post-9/11 world.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).

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