David D. Cole - Citizendia

David D. Cole is an American Law Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Georgetown University Law Center ( Georgetown Law) is Georgetown University 's Law school, located in Washington D He has published in various legal fields including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law and law and literature. Criminal justice is the system of practices and organizations used by national and local governments directed at maintaining Social control, deterring Constitutional law is the study of foundational or basic Laws of nation states and other political organizations He has litigated First Amendment and other constitutional issues and contributes regularly to the media on topical legal issues.

1 Academic Career
2 Legal career
3 Activities in the Media
4 Awards
5 Notable Publications
6 External links

Academic Career

Professor Cole studied at Yale College and Yale Law School. Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 Yale Law School, or YLS, is the Law school of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. He is now a member of the Georgetown University Law Faculty. His main areas of expertise are constitutional law, in particular First Amendment law, criminal procedure and law relating to United States federal courts. Constitutional law is the study of foundational or basic Laws of nation states and other political organizations Criminal procedure refers to the legal process for adjudicating claims that someone has violated Criminal law. The United States federal courts are the system of Courts organized under the Constitution and laws of the Federal government of the United States

He has lectured and contributed academic articles on related topics including U. S. drugs policy, the U. The War on Drugs is a prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government with the assistance of participating countries intended to reduce the Illegal S. War on Terror, capital punishment, and Judicial Review. The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. Judicial review is the power of the courts to annul the acts of the executive and/or the legislative power where it finds them incompatible with a higher norm

Legal career

After graduating from law school, Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with Appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following He then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases, including:

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U. The Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, New York, U Texas v Johnson,, was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag in S. 397 (1989)
United States v. Eichman, 496 U. See also List of United States Supreme Court cases volume 496 S. 928 (1990)
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U. S. 569 (1998)

He continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the Center where he is also a member of the Board of Directors. He is also co-chairman of the Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Committee. The Constitution Project is an independent Nonprofit Think tank in the United States that builds Bipartisan consensus on significant [1]

Activities in the Media

He has been the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation since 2000. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
He is a commentator on U. S. National Public Radio: All Things Considered. All Things Considered (ATC is a news radio program in the United States broadcast on the National Public Radio network

Awards

Professor Cole has received numerous awards from professional bodies and campaigning groups for his civil rights and civil liberties work, including from the American Bar Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the American Muslim Council, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of the Freedom of Expression. The American Bar Association ( ABA) founded August 21 1878 is a voluntary Bar association of Lawyers and law students which is not specific The National Lawyers Guild is a progressive/left-wing Bar Association in the United States "dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change The American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC is a grassroots Civil rights organization open to all regardless of background faith and ethnicity committed to defending The American Muslim Council ( AMC) is an Islamic organization and registered charity in the United States.

Notable Publications

Playing by Pornography's Rules: The Regulation of Sexual Expression, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 111 (1994)
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (The New Press 1999)
Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security with James X. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues published by an organization of second and third year J Dempsey (The New Press 2d rev. ed. 2002)
Enemy Aliens: Immigrants' Rights and American Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New Press 2003)

External links

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