Professor of Law
E-mail: dsschwartz@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-8150
Office: Room 9110, Law School
Education:
B.A., M.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School
Teaching Areas:
Civil Procedure
Civil Rights
Constitutional Law
Evidence
Trial Advocacy
Recently Taught Courses
714 Civil Procedure I
801 Evidence
940 L&CP: Constitution in American Civil War
Biography
David Schwartz joined the UW Law faculty in fall 1999, after 12 years of law practice in which he specialized in employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. For the three years just prior to joining the Law School faculty, Prof. Schwartz was Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Previously, Prof. Schwartz was in private practice in San Francisco, representing plaintiffs in employment cases. After graduating law school, Prof. Schwartz clerked for the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Schwartz currently teaches Civil Procedure I, Evidence, and Constitutional Law, and he has also taught Civil Rights Litigation, Employment Law and Remedies. His scholarly interests currently focus on constitutional law and the civil litigation system.
