Contact
Information:
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Education:
- A.B., Princeton University
(Woodrow Wilson School)
- J.D., Yale University
School of Law (Editor, Yale Law Journal)
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Clerkships:
- Law Clerk to Judge
Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit
- Law Clerk to Judge
Jon O. Newman of the United States District Court for the District
of Connecticut
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Teaching:
- Seattle University
School of Law
Seattle, Washington
Fredric C. Tausend Professor
of Law
Emeritus Professor of Law 7/22 - Present
Full Professor with Tenure 8/94 - 7/22
Subjects Taught:
Mass Media
Theory & Free Speech Jurisprudence
The First Amendment & the Internet
Federal Constitutional
Law
Federal Courts
Law
Conflict of
Laws
- University
of Puget Sound School of Law
Tacoma, Washington
Full Professor
9/90 -8/94
Associate Professor
9/85 - 9/90 (Tenured 9/87)
Assistant Professor
9/82 - 9/85
Subjects Taught:
Mass Media
Theory & Free Speech Jurisprudence
Federal &
State Constitutional Law
Federal Courts
Law
Federal &
State Election Campaign Regulation
Civil Procedure
& Conflict of Laws
- Indiana University
School of Law
Bloomington, Indiana
Visiting Professor
9/88 - 5/89
Subjects Taught:
Federal Constitutional
Law
Civil Procedure
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Editorship
of Professional Journals and Scholarly Book Series:
Co-Editor, Books-on-Law
(1998 - 2001) (with Ronald Collins) |
- A non-profit electronic journal reviewing
law-related trade and university press books,
once sponsored by Jurist.
Co-Editor, Free Expression in America Series, Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers (2007 - 2009) (with Ronald Collins) |
- The series focuses
on scholarly books written by prominent First
Amendment scholars and practitioners on pressing contemporary
free-speech issues.
- The first
publication in the series was Geoffrey Stone, Top Secret: When
Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007)
- As series
editors, Collins & Skover
work with an Advisory Board that
includes academics (among them, Charles Fried, Kathleen Sullivan,
Geoffrey Stone, and Laurence Tribe), practitioners (among them,
Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon), and members of the press (among
them, former NYT reporter Anthony Lewis)
Co-Editor, SCOTUS Books-in Brief Series, Top Five Books (2013 - present) (with Ronald Collins) |
- The series focuses
on scholarly e-books written by prominent Constitutional Law scholars and practitioners on current and controversial Supreme Court decisions.
- The first
publication in the series is Ronald Collins & David Skover, When Money Speaks: The McCutcheon Case, Campaign Financing Laws, and The First Amendment (2013)
- As series
editors, Collins & Skover
work with an Advisory Board that
includes academics (among them, Randy Barnett, Erwin Chemerinsky, David O'Brien, Stephen Vladeck, Kathryn Watts, Geoffrey Stone, Nadine Strossen, and Adam Winkler) and practitioners (among them,
Robert Corn-Revere of Davis Wright, Tremaine)
Co-Founder, First Amendment Salon (2014 - present) (with Ronald Collins and Lee Levine) |
- The Salon sponsors a series of programs that aim to emulate the spirit of our Madisonian guarantee by opening a dialogue, at once robust and diverse, about free expression in America. The Salon engages members of the First Amendment community -- lawyers, academics, journalists, and activists -- in ongoing discussion on some of the key First Amendment issues of our day..
- The events, attended by 30 invitees at each site, are hosted by Levin Sullivan Koch & Schulz in Washington, DC and New York City.
- The first Salon was held on April 28, 2014, and featured an exchange between Floyd Abrams and Steven Shapiro concerning protests at abortion clinics. Nadine Strossen moderated the discussion.
- The second Salon was held on July 9, 2014. David Skover presented and moderated a debate between Erin Murphy and Paul Smith on campaign finance regulation and the Supreme Court's recent decision in McCutcheon v. FEC.
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Professional
Officerships and Consultantships:
- Secretary, Section on Law and Interpretation, American
Association of Law Schools (1999-2000)
- Secretary, Section on Federal Jurisdiction,
American Association of Law Schools (1988-89)
- Consultant, Advisory Commission on Inter-Governmental
Relations, Washington, D.C. (1988-90)
- Consultant and Presenter, "The Inquiring
Mind" Program, Washington Commission for the Humanities (1990-91)
- Consultant and Presenter, "Political
Philosophy in Teaching" Seminar, Sponsored by
the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington
State (1991, 1993)
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