Nicholas Kahn-Fogel

Professor of Law

Professor Nicholas Kahn-Fogel joined Penn State Dickinson Law after serving as the Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Prior to Bowen, he taught at the University of Zambia School of Law.

Professor Kahn-Fogel’s scholarship focuses on comparative law and criminal procedure, and he is also a co-author of the casebook Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems. Professor Kahn-Fogel’s recent articles have been published or are forthcoming in the St. John’s Law Review, the Florida Law Review, the Houston Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. His work has been cited by practitioners and scholars, the leading treatise on American criminal procedure, the leading treatise on the Fourth Amendment, popular media, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and the supreme courts of Iowa, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has recognized his work on eyewitness identification as “must read” scholarship.

Professor Kahn-Fogel has served on the editorial board of the Zambia Law Journal and on the editorial board of the Case Commentary Unit of the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research. He also served as the chair of the board of the Center for Arkansas Legal Services.

Professor Kahn-Fogel is licensed to practice law in New York. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking unhealthy food, jogging slowly, and playing vigorous, mediocre tennis.

Select Publications by Professor Kahn-Fogel

Nicholas A. Kahn-Fogel, “Power, Responsibility, and Judicial Deference to Police Expertise in Fourth Amendment Decision-making,” St. John’s Law Review (forthcoming 2023)

Nicholas A. Kahn-Fogel, “Standing in the Shadows of the New Fourth Amendment Traditionalism,” 74 Florida Law Review 381 (2022)

Arthur Best, Jake Barnes, & Nicholas Kahn-Fogel, Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, and Problems (6th ed. 2022)

Nicholas A. Kahn-Fogel, “Probabilistic Presumptions in Fourth Amendment Decision-making,” 59 Houston Law Review 313 (2021)

Nicholas A. Kahn-Fogel, “African Law and the Rights of Sexual Minorities: Western Universalism and African Resistance,” in Handbook on African Law (Muna Ndulo & Cosmas Emeziem, eds., Routledge 2021)