Jonathan Manes
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Jonathan Manes is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law in the MacArthur Justice Center Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, which litigates complex civil rights cases challenging injustices in the criminal legal system. His practice focuses on surveillance technologies, police misconduct, unlawful detention, and government secrecy. He has led numerous high-profile cases, including a constitutional challenge to Chicago’s use of ShotSpotter, a habeas challenge to a rarely-invoked immigrant-detention provision of the PATRIOT Act, and numerous cases seeking transparency with respect to law enforcement, surveillance, and national security matters.
Areas of Expertise
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Rights
- Government Secrecy
- Media Law
- Surveillance Law
Selected Publications
- Comment of the MacArthur Justice Center to FTC Rulemaking on Commercial Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology, (Nov. 21, 2022).
- Secrecy & Evasion in Police Surveillance Technology, 34 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 503 (2019).
- Secret Law, 106 Georgetown Law Journal 803 (2018).
- Online Service Providers and Surveillance Law Transparency, 125 Yale Law Journal Forum 343 (2016).
Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science
- BA, Columbia University
Prior Appointments
- Adjunct, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Associate Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, SUNY
- Assistant Clinical Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, SUNY
- Abrams Clinical Fellow, Yale Law School
- Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, Gibbons P.C.
- National Security Fellow, ACLU
- Law Clerk, Hon Morris J. Fish, Supreme Court of Canada