David Sklansky

University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Professor Sklansky received his A.B. in 1981 from Berkeley, majoring in Biophysics and graduating with highest honors, and his J.D. in 1984 from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and served on the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation he clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He briefly practiced labor law at the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser and then spent seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting federal criminal cases in Los Angeles. From 1994 until 2005 he taught at UCLA School of Law, where the graduating classes of 1996 and 2003 elected him Professor of the Year. In 2000 he received UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Sklansky is the author of a well-regarded evidence casebook, Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems, and he has written extensively about criminal procedure and policing. Notable recent publications include "Police and Democracy" in the Michigan Law Review (2005), "Quasi-Affirmative Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure" in the Virginia Law Review (2002) and "The Fourth Amendment and Common Law" in the Columbia Law Review (2000).