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International Affairs Fellow
David S. Law is an associate professor of law at the University of San Diego and an assistant adjunct professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His scholarship takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to the study of public law, constitutional theory, legal institutions, and judicial behavior. Born and raised in Canada, he studied public policy at Stanford University as an undergraduate and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he also served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced corporate law with Munger Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. He subsequently returned to Stanford for a PhD in political science and earned a master's degree in European and comparative law at Oxford. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Oxford University Press in conjunction with the University of Oxford. His work has appeared in a variety of legal journals, including the Northwestern University Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, and Judicature. He recently served as editor of the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. He will begin his International Affairs Fellowship in Japan in the summer of 2008.
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