About Lori
Lori Hoetger is a 2018 graduate of the J.D./Ph.D. Social Psychology Program. She graduated in 2009 from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in psychology and gender studies, and completed her JD with highest distinction and her MA in psychology in 2014. Lori's research interests include evolving expectations of privacy and implications for the Fourth Amendment, and how individuals make decisions that affect their legal rights. Her dissertation, How Can Teens Be Reasonable? Adolescents' Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in a Digital Age, was funded by the National Science Foundation dissertation enhancement grant.
After graduating law school, Lori worked with the Center on Children, Families, and the Law to evaluate child welfare programs. She then clerked for the Honorable William Riley of the Eight Circuit before entering practice as a public defender in Omaha. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor with the University of Illinois College of Law teaching courses related to criminal procedure, criminal law, and evidence.