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name: David A. Strauss
about: David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School.David Strauss graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1973. He then spent two years at Magdalen College, Oxford, on Marshall Scholarship and received a B.Phil. in politics from Oxford in 1975. In 1978, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Law Review. Before joining the faculty, he worked as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.Mr. Strauss joined the faculty in 1985. In 1990, he served as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Straus David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at The University of Chicago Law School.David Strauss graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1973. He then spent two years at Magdalen College, Oxford, on Marshall Scholarship and received a B.Phil. in politics from Oxford in 1975. In 1978, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Law Review. Before joining the faculty, he worked as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.Mr. Strauss joined the faculty in 1985. In 1990, he served as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Strauss has argued eighteen cases before the United States Supreme Court. He has served Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. Mr. Strauss is, with Geoffrey Stone and Dennis Hutchinson, editor of the Supreme Court Review. He has published articles on a variety of subjects, principally in constitutional law and related areas. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his current teaching interests—Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, and Elements of the Law—he has taught Civil Procedure, Torts, and Administrative Law. ...more