Luke M. Milligan
Associate Professor of Law

- luke.milligan@louisville.edu
- Phone: 502-852-7939
- Office: 246
Luke Milligan is a law professor at the University of Louisville. An expert on criminal law and privacy, Milligan's written commentary has appeared in the Boston University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and Washington & Lee Law Review, among others. His description of the interactions between federal judges and Congress, published by the Georgia Law Review, won the Helfat Prize for Research and Scholarship in 2011. The UofL law alumni named him Professor of the Year in 2012.
Professor Milligan was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. His practice focused on white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation matters. Before joining Williams & Connolly he served as law clerk to Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Martin L.C. Feldman of the U.S. District Court in New Orleans. Milligan is an honors graduate of Emory Law School, where he was articles editor of the Emory Law Journal. He also worked on antitrust investigations at the U.S. Department of Justice and death penalty matters at the Carter Center.
In recent years Milligan has been a visiting professor at Emory Law School and a visitor-in-residence at the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Issues
Criminal Procedure: Judicial Process
Federal Habeas Corpus
Law & Religion
Jurisprudence
Publications
Concreteness Drift and the Fourth Amendment, 82 Miss. L.J. 891 (2013)
The Real Rules of "Search" Interpretations, 21 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1 (2012)
Modeling the Congressional End-Run Constraint, 45 U. Rich. L. Rev. 863 (2011)
Analogy Breakers: A Reality Check on Emerging Technologies, 81 Miss. L.J. 1319 (2011)
Congressional End-Run: The Ignored Constraint on Judicial Review, 44 Ga. L. Rev. 211 (2010)
Stacking in Criminal Procedure Adjudication, 85 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 331 (2010)
Rethinking Press Rights of Equal Access, 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1103 (2008)
The "Ongoing Criminal Investigation" Constraint: Getting Away With Silence, 16 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 747 (2008)
A Theory of Stability: John Rawls, Fetal Homicide, and Substantive Due Process, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 1177 (2007)
The Source-Centric Framework to the Exclusionary Rule, 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 2739 (2007)
The Fourth Amendment Rights of Trespassers: Searching for the Legitimacy of the Government-Notification Doctrine, 50 Emory L.J. 1357 (2001)
Presentations
Selected Presentations
Fourth Amendment Anxieties, University of Kentucky College of Law, Jan. 25, 2013
Judicial Elections, Louisville Bar Association, June 26, 2012
Concreteness Drift and the Fourth Amendment, Yeditepe University (Turkey), May 22, 2012
GPS and the Fourth Amendment, Central High School, Nov. 30, 2011
Juvenile Justice, duPont Manual High School, Jan. 6, 2011
A Reality Check on Emerging Technologies, University of Aix-Marseilles III (France), Jun. 11, 2010
Congressional End-Run, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), May 15, 2010
* see CV for additional presentations
University and Community Service
Advisor, American Constitution Society, University of Louisville, 2009-Present
Commissioner, Department of Public Advocacy, Commonwealth of Kentucky, 2010-Present
Faculty Senate, University of Louisville, 2013-Present
Leadership Academy, Louisville Bar Association, 2008-09
