David T. Konig

Courses Taught

American Legal History
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Profile

Professor David Thomas Konig is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in Early American legal history, Anglo-American legal history, and American culture studies. The founder and current director of Washington University’s Legal Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, he is a leading authority on Thomas Jefferson and the development of law in colonial, Revolutionary, and early national America. The author of several books and numerous articles, Professor Konig researches, writes, and lectures on such topics as the framing of the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause, the law of slavery and freedom, and Transatlantic legal conflict in the Colonial and Revolutionary eras. A former Senior Research Fellow for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, he is currently editing the papers of Thomas Jefferson and writing a book on Jefferson’s legal thought and practice, Nature’s Advocate: Thomas Jefferson and the Discovery of American Law. Professor Konig also is the co-editor and author of a book on the Dred Scott case, which originated here in St. Louis. The book examines race and the law from historical and contemporary perspectives. Professor Konig is the recipient of several teaching awards, including Washington University’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

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