Expertise

Civil Rights • Fourth Amendment • Predictive Policing • Privacy

About

Professor Ferguson is a Professor of Law in the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia. A leading scholar examining the constitutional and social implications of the use of predictive analytics and surveillance in policing, he also serves as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program. He also serves as a Policing Data Fellow at the NYU Law School’s Policing Project. Both projects focus on examining the civil rights, privacy, and public safety aspects of new surveillance technologies.

Professor Ferguson’s recent book The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (NYU Press) examines how surveillance technology and predictive analytics shapes modern policing. Professor Ferguson’s articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the University of Southern California Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Emory Law Journal among others.

Professor Ferguson’s first book Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action (NYU Press) is the first book written for jurors on jury duty.

His legal commentary has been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Economist, the Washington Post, Time, USA Today, the ABA Journal, The Atlantic (digital), The Huffington Post, and other national and international newspapers, magazines, and media sites.