Biography
David W. Bowker is chair of the International Litigation Practice at WilmerHale. There, he has spent nearly 20 years working on litigation and arbitration matters on behalf of U.S. and foreign companies, foreign states, individuals, and others before international arbitration tribunals and U.S. state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a vice president of the American Society of International Law, an outside director of the non-profit organization Hostage US, an adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, and a member of the American Bar Association, International Bar Association, and American Law Institute. Along with Georgetown Law Professor David Stewart, he recently co-authored Ristau’s International Judicial Assistance: A Practitioner’s Guide to International Civil and Commercial Litigation, published by Oxford University Press and the International Law Institute in 2021. Before joining WilmerHale, Mr. Bowker served as the attorney-adviser for the Law of Armed Conflict in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that, he worked on counterterrorism in the Office of Global Affairs and Multilateral Issues on the National Security Council staff. He received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, his M.A.L.D. from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
