Professor David A. Strauss

David Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of The Living Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010) and co-author of a forthcoming book on the Warren Court, and he is at work on a book on constitutional interpretation. He has published many scholarly articles, principally on subjects in constitutional law. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a co-editor of the Supreme Court Review. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown. He has served as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and he has argued nineteen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he was a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.