NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Professor Michael Mannheimer is a busy man at Salmon P. Chase College of Law: He teaches, he supervises a clinic-style program, he speaks at forums, and he writes – a lot. Along with being the author of more than two dozen law review articles, numerous scholarly papers and commentaries, he is the author of a forthcoming book on how the Fourth Amendment – originally a constraint on the federal government and later applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment – could be applied in a reimagined approach to local policing. The publisher is the University of Michigan Press. As a man of words, Professor Mannheimer has some words about the book, how he sees the linkage of the Fourth and Fourteen Amendments to the United States Constitution, how laws and policing might be different under his view, and, of course, the process of writing the book: