David Skover
Frederic C. Tausend Professor of Law
Room 422, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4011
E-mail: davidskover@seattleu.edu
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David Skover | |
Teaches Constitutional Law; Federal Courts; Mass Communications Theory; First Amendment & the Internet
A.B. Princeton University 1974: Woodrow Wilson Scholar. J.D. Yale Law School 1978: Yale Law Journal editor and note author. Clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Skover is the co-author of Tactics of Legal Reasoning (Carolina Academic Press, 1986) (with Pierre Schlag), The Death of Discourse (Westview Press, 1996; Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2005) (with Ronald K.L. Collins), The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Sourcebooks, 2002) (with Ronald K.L. Collins), and Mania (forthcoming 2009) (with Ronald K.L. Collins).
In 2003, Skover and his coauthor, Ron Collins, successfully petitioned Governor Pataki of New York State to posthumously pardon Lenny Bruce. In 2004, they received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for The Trials of Lenny Bruce and their pardon effort.
Additionally, Professor Skover has authored or co-authored more than twenty scholarly articles in various journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, The Nation magazine, and encyclopedia articles in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Macmillan, 1991), Yale Bibliographical Dictionary of American Law (Yale University Press, 2009), and Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan, 2008).
Professor Skover appears frequently on network affiliate television and has been quoted in the national popular press (e.g. NYT, WSJ, CSM, etc.) on a spectrum of issues ranging from constitutional law to pop media culture and theory. He also is a regionally acclaimed opera and musical theater performer. “Skover Online,” his personal Web site, contains much more information on his books, articles, and presentations – and even includes selections from his musical theater recordings on the “Interests & Activities” page.