Anthony O’Rourke

JOSEPH W. BELLUCK AND LAURA L. ASWAD PROFESSOR OF CIVIL JUSTICE DIRECTOR OF THE ADVOCACY INSTITUTE

JD, Columbia Law School BA, University of Michigan

(716) 645-3097 aorourke@buffalo.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LEGISLATION STATUTORY INTERPRETATION LEGAL THEORY

ARTICLES Defunding Police Agencies (with Guyora Binder & Rick Su) 71 Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2022).

The Ostensible (and, at times, Actual) Virtue of Deference, 131 Yale Law Journal Forum (forthcoming 2021).

Disbanding Police Agencies (with Guyora Binder & Rick Su), 121 Columbia Law Review 1327 (2021).

Parallel Enforcement and Agency Interdependence, 77 Maryland Law Review 985 (2018).

CHAPTERS Pretrial Self-Incrimination, Miranda, and Truth, in Interrogation, Confession and Truth 29 (Lutz Eidam, Michael Lindemann & Andreas Ransiek, eds., Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020). Much of my research lies at the intersection of criminal procedure and structural constitutional law. I am currently exploring how political and economic conditions affect the capacity of courts to solve difficult doctrinal problems as well as how these conditions help structure policing and the criminal law system more broadly. Using a methodological approach that integrates doctrinal analysis with legal theory and social science, my work challenges some common assumptions concerning how institutional pressures shape both constitutional and statutory interpretation.”