David S. Law
Professor of Law and
Professor of Political Science
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 565
Phone: (314) 935-8233
E-mail: davidlaw@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Andrea Donze - (314) 935-6422
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Publications [view]
Courses Taught
Constitutional Law I
Federal Courts
Administrative Law
Law & Political Science
Judicial Politics
Comparative Judicial Politics
Education
B.A. 1993, Stanford University;
J.D. 1996, Harvard Law School;
M.A. 2000, Stanford University;
B.C.L. in European and Comparative Law, 2003, University of Oxford;
Ph.D. 2004, Stanford University
Profile
Professor Law served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review, clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced law with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, before obtaining a Ph.D. in political science at Stanford and a degree in comparative law at Oxford. Before coming to Washington University, he held joint appointments at the University of San Diego School of Law and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former International Affairs Fellow in Japan (Hitachi Fellow), courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a visiting associate professor at the Keio University Faculty of Law in Tokyo.
His recent publications include "The Anatomy of a Conservative Court: Judicial Review in Japan," Texas Law Review; "A Theory of Judicial Power and Judicial Review," Georgetown Law Journal; "Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Rights," Northwestern University Law Review; "Generic Constitutional Law," Minnesota Law Review; "Appointing Federal Judges: The President, the Senate, and the Prisoner's Dilemma," Cardozo Law Review; and "Strategic Judicial Lawmaking: Ideology, Publication, and Asylum Law in the Ninth Circuit," University of Cincinnati Law Review (reprinted in the Immigration & Nationality Law Review). His teaching and scholarly interests include public law (encompassing constitutional law, administrative law, and federal courts), comparative public law, law and social science, judicial politics, comparative judicial politics, constitutional theory, legal theory, and political theory.
