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David A. Sklansky joined the Boalt faculty in 2005 following a decade at UCLA School of Law and has won the campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award both at UCLA and at Berkeley. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1984, Sklansky clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He briefly practiced labor law at the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. From 1987 to 1994, Sklansky served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he specialized in white-collar fraud prosecutions. While at UCLA, he served as special counsel to the independent review panel appointed to investigate the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division scandal. He writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence.
| Current Institution | University of California, Berkeley |
| Current School | School of Law |
| Department | Law, Political Science |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 435 Boalt Hall (North Addition) Berkeley California 94720 United States Phone: (510) 643-3506 |
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Education
Harvard Law School
J.D.
(1981 - 1984)
University of California, Berkeley
A.B.,
Biophysics
(1977 - 1981)
Work Experience
Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law
School of Law, University of California
(2005 - Present)
Professor of Law
School of Law, University of California
(1994 - 2005)
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Publications
Books
- Police Reform from the Bottom Up: Officers and Their Unions as Agents of Change (Routledge2011) (co-edited with Monique Marks).
- Democracy and the Police (Stanford University Press 2008).
- Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems (Aspen Publishers 2003, 2d ed. 2008, 3d ed. 2012)(with teacher's manual and annual statutory supplement).
Articles and Chapters
- Evidentiary Instructions and the Jury as Other, forthcoming, Stan. L. Rev. (2013).
- Crime, Immigration and Ad Hoc Instrumentalism, 15 New Crim. L. Rev. 157 (2012).
- Stealing Bill Stuntz, in The Political Heart of Criminal Justice: Essays on Themes of William J.Stuntz (Michael Klarman, David Skeel & Carol Steiker eds., Cambridge University Press 2012).
- Private Policing and Human Rights, 5 Law & Ethics Hum. Rts. 112 (2011).
- Hearsay’s Last Hurrah, 2009 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1 (2010).
- Anti-Inquisitorialism, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1649 (2009).
- Science, Suspects, and Systems: Lessons from the Anthrax Investigation, 8 Issues in Legal Scholarship, Iss. 2, Art. 3 (2009) (co-authored with Erin Murphy).
- “One Train May Hide Another”: Katz, Stonewall, and the Secret Subtext of Criminal Procedure,41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 875 (2008).
- Is the Exclusionary Rule Obsolete?, 5 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 567 (2008).
- Work and Authority in Policing, in Police in the Liberal State (Markus Dubber & Mariana Valverde eds., Stanford University Press 2008).
- Seeing Blue: Police Reform, Occupational Culture, and Cognitive Burn-In, in Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (Megan O'Neill, Monique Marks & Anne-Marie Singh eds., Elsevier 2007).
- Not Your Father’s Police Department: Making Sense of the New Demographics of Law Enforcement, 96 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1209 (2006).
- Private Police and Democracy, 43 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 89 (2006).
- The Story of Katz v. United States: The Limits of Aphorism, in Criminal Procedure Stories (Carol Steiker ed., Foundation 2006).
- Comparative Law Without Leaving Home: What Civil Procedure Can Teach Criminal Procedure, and Vice Versa, 94 Geo. L.J. 683 (2006) (co-authored with Stephen Yeazell).
- Police and Democracy, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1699 (2005).
- Quasi-Affirmative Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, 88 Va. L. Rev. 1229 (2002).
- Back to the Future: Kyllo, Katz, and Common Law, 72 Miss. L.J. 143 (2002).
- The Fourth Amendment and Common Law, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1739 (2000).
- The Private Police, 46 UCLA L. Rev. 1165 (1999).
- Starr, Singleton, and the Prosecutor's Role, 26 Fordham Urb. L.J. 509 (1999).
- Traffic Stops, Minority Motorists, and the Future of the Fourth Amendment, 1997 Sup. Ct. Rev. 271.
- Proposition 187 and the Ghost of James Bradley Thayer, 17 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 24 (1995).
- Cocaine, Race, and Equal Protection, 47 Stan. L. Rev. 1283 (1995).
Miscellaneous
- Confrontation and Kabuki, forthcoming, Brooklyn L. Rev. (2012).
- Dick Wolf Goes to Law School: Integrating the Humanities into Courses on Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence, 3 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 165 (2012).
- A Postscript on Katz and Stonewall: Evidence from Justice Stewart’s First Draft, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1487 (2012).
- Comment, in Controlling Crime: Strategies and Payoffs (Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig & Justin McCrary eds., University of Chicago Press 2011).
- The Persistent Pull of Police Professionalism, New Perspectives in Policing (Harvard Kennedy School/National Institute of Justice, 2011).
- Confined, Crammed, and Inextricable: What The Wire Gets Right, 8 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 473 (2011).
- Voices from Below: Unions and Participatory Arrangements in the Police Workplace, 9 Police Prac. & Res. 85 (2008) (co-authored with Monique Marks) (introducing special issue co-edited with Monique Marks).
- The Role of the Rank and File in Police Reform, 18 Policing & Soc’y 1 (2008) (co-authored with Monique Marks) (introducing special issue co-edited with Monique Marks).
- Book Review, 41 L. & Soc’y Rev. 233 (2008) (reviewing Wesley G. Skogan, Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities (2006)).
- Book Review, 20 Governance 544 (2007) (reviewing John Bailey & Lucia Dammert, Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas (2006)).
- Killer Seatbelts and Criminal Procedure, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 56 (2006).
- Foreword, 26 Berkeley J. Crim. L. [xii] (2006).
- The Feds Aren’t Listening, Boston Rev., Dec. 2004/Jan. 2005, at 16.
- Plea Bargaining (with Arthur Rosett) and Private Policing, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2002).
- Some Cautious Optimism About the Problem of Racial Profiling, 3 Rutgers Race & L. Rev. 293 (2001).
- Report of the Rampart Independent Review Panel: A Report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Concerning Special Order 40 (2001) (co-authored).
- Report of the Rampart Independent Review Panel: A Report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Concerning the Operations, Policies, and Procedures of the Los Angeles Police Department in the Wake of the Rampart Scandal (2000) (co-authored).
- Crack Cocaine and Equal Protection, Harry A. Blackmun and Traffic Stops, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Leonard W. Levy et al. eds., 2d ed. 2000).
- Book Review, 30 J. Interdisc. Hist. 643 (Spring 2000) (reviewing Vivien Stern, A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World (1998)).
- Awards of Attorneys' Fees to Unsuccessful Environmental Litigants, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 677 (1983).
- Developments in the Law -- Immigration Policy and the Rights of Aliens -- VI. Discrimination Against Documented Aliens, 96 Harv. L. Rev. 1400 (1983) (co-authored).
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