| David Skover | |
| Alma Mater: | Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
| Discipline: | Constitutional Law |
| Workplaces: | Seattle University |
David Michael Skover is the former Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law. He taught, wrote, and lectured in the fields of federal constitutional law, federal courts, free speech & the internet, and mass communications theory. He is also a regionally acclaimed opera and musical theater singer.
David graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Domestic Affairs at Princeton University. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Thereafter, he served as a law clerk for federal judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
David began his teaching career in 1982 at the University of Puget Sound Law School in Tacoma, Washington. Subsequently, he was a visiting professor at the University of Indiana Law School in Bloomington. He returned to the Northwest and taught at the Seattle University School of Law, where he had a named professorship position. David became an Emeritus Professor in 2022, after his fortieth year in teaching. On September 10, 2022, his former students (known as "The Skoverites") gathered for a retirement celebration at the Columbia Tower Club in downtown Seattle.
David appears frequently on network and cable television and social media, and has been quoted in the national popular press (e.g. NYT, WSJ, CSM, etc.) on a spectrum of issues ranging from constitutional law to pop media culture and theory. He is also a regionally acclaimed singer in opera, musical theater, and cabaret performances.
David has coauthored the following books with Ronald Collins:
He has also co-authored the following book with Pierre Schlag:
David has published more than thirty scholarly articles in various journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, The Nation magazine, the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan, 2008), and the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Macmillan, 1991). Among the articles coauthored with Ronald Collins are the following: