MATTHEW TOKSON

Professor

College of Law

BIO

Professor Tokson's research focuses on the Fourth Amendment and its application to new technologies and social contexts. He has also written about broader theoretical issues in privacy, artificial intelligence, judicial decisionmaking, and criminal punishment. Professor Tokson's articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review (twice), the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Georgetown Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Minnesota Law Review. His article Knowledge and Fourth Amendment Privacy was discussed at oral argument in the Supreme Court case Carpenter v. United States. Professor Tokson graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Executive Articles Editor of the Law Review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and to the Honorable David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Tokson has also served as a fellow at the University of Chicago and as a senior litigation associate in the criminal investigations group of WilmerHale, in Washington, D.C.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor
    College of Law1 Jul 2020 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Utah, College of Law1 Jul 2017 - 30 Jun 2020

DEGREES

  • JD, High Honors, Law School
    The University of Chicago
  • AB, cum laude, Government
    Dartmouth College

FIELDS OF RESEARCH