David A. Strauss

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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 and co-author of Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court, both from Oxford University Press. 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 was a member of the President’s Commission on the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has served as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. He has argued nineteen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He helped represent President Clinton before the Supreme Court in Clinton v. Jones, and he represented a bipartisan group of three former Attorneys General as amici curiae in Morrison v. Olson, arguing that the Independent Counsel provisions were unconstitutional.

David A. Strauss

University of Chicago Law School

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