Career
David graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Domestic Affairs at Princeton University. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School,where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Thereafter,he served as a law clerk for federal judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
David began his teaching career in 1982 at the University of Puget Sound Law School in Tacoma,Washington. Subsequently,he was a visiting professor at the University of Indiana Law School in Bloomington. He returned to the Northwest and taught at the Seattle University School of Law,where he had a named professorship position. David became an Emeritus Professor in 2022,after his fortieth year in teaching. On September 10,2022,his former students (known as "The Skoverites") gathered for a retirement celebration at the Columbia Tower Club in downtown Seattle.
David appears frequently on network and cable television and social media,and has been quoted in the national popular press (e.g. NYT,WSJ,CSM,etc.) on a spectrum of issues ranging from constitutional law to pop media culture and theory. He is also a regionally acclaimed singer in opera,musical theater,and cabaret performances.
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