I am an associate professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. Previously, I taught at DePaul Law School, the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and the University of Illinois College of Law.
My research and teaching interests are wide-ranging, but broadly speaking I’m interested in constitutional and anti-discrimination law, contemporary racism and antisemitism, and the ethics of public deliberation. I’ve taught courses in law and political science at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including classes on political theory, constitutional law, anti-discrimination theory, and energy law. I’ve also served as coordinator for several academic workshops, including the Kadish Center Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory and the Berkeley Public Law Workshop. In the spring of 2023, I co-convened and hosted the 2nd Annual Law vs. Antisemitism Conference at Lewis & Clark Law School, and in December 2024, I delivered (with Hussein Ibish) the Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis & Clark College on the subject of “Understanding and Addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia.”
My first book, Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy, is now available for preorder from the Oxford University Press. Beyond that, my scholarship has appeared in, among other locations, the American Political Science Review, Constitutional Commentary, the California Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, and Social Theory and Practice. From 2014-16, I was Berkeley Law’s inaugural Darling Foundation Fellow in Public Law. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and clerked for Judge Diana E. Murphy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In addition, I was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., focusing on energy and Indian law matters.
Beyond my academic writing, I’ve also been a longtime member of the political and legal blogosphere. I’ve been writing at my own site, The Debate Link, since 2004, and have been a contributor or guest-blogger at numerous other sites, including Alas, a Blog, Concurring Opinions, The Faculty Lounge, Inside Energy and Environment, Legal Planet, and The Moderate Voice. My more professional bylines include The Atlantic, Ha’aretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, and Tablet Magazine (see the “popular writing” tab).
I’m a native of the Washington, DC metropolitan area and a fanatically loyal Carleton College alum, where I earned a degree in Political Science. I’m a somewhat-less fanatical, but still generally happy, graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where I earned my J.D., and the University of California, Berkeley, where I received my Ph.D. in Political Science (specializing in political theory and public law).
While I’m lucky enough to basically count my job as among my hobbies, when not pondering interesting questions for a living I like writing, eating steak, playing board games, collecting contemporary art, doing crosswords, and watching boxing. I also play a mean game of Boggle.
David Schraub 