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David A. Martin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-98-1

Dates

  • Creation: 1973 - 2015

Creator

Biographical / Historical

David A. Martin, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, was born in 1948. He received his BA from DePauw University in 1970 and his JD from Yale University in 1975. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright, at the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1975-1976, and the next year for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. at the US Supreme Court. From 1977-1978 he worked as an associate with Rogovin, Stern & Huge in the District of Columbia. He left the firm to become Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Department of State, a position he held from 1978-1980. Later in 1980, he came to the University of Virginia Law School as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1985.

In 1984-1985, he was a German Marshall Fund and Ford Foundation Research Fellow in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, Martin took a leave of absence from the Law School to work as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC, until December 1997 when he returned to Charlottesville. Martin teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, and International Law.

Full Extent

42 Cubic Feet (96 archival boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
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