Rate My Professor Emily Berman

A constitutional scholar with expertise in executive power and national security law, Berman's scholarship addresses inadequate restraints on executive power, proposing mechanisms for checks, balances, and democratic accountability. Her research further examines technological changes outpacing legal protections in government surveillance, data privacy, big data, and Fourth Amendment searches. She teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, National Security Law, and Foreign Affairs Law. Key publications include "Reimagining Surveillance Law," 2023 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1235; "Weaponizing the Office of Legal Counsel," 62 B.C. L. Rev. 515 (2021), winner of the 2020 Levin Center Award for Excellence in Oversight Research; "A Government of Laws and Not of Machines," 98 B.U. L. Rev. 1277 (2018), winner of the 2018 Southeast Association of Law Schools Call-for-Papers Award and cited in FISA Court decisions; "When Database Queries are Fourth Amendment Searches," 102 Minn. L. Rev. 577 (2017); and contributions to National Security Law (8th ed. 2024). Honors include the Royce R. Till Professorship from 2022 to 2024 and the 2019 University of Houston Law Center Student Bar Association Professor of the Year Award.