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. His main interests are in constitutional law and related subjects. He is the author of The Living Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010), the co-author of Equality and Democracy: The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the Warren Court (Oxford University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of the Supreme Court Review. He has served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court. He has argued nineteen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he was a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.