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Professor David D. Cole

 

Georgetown University Law Center

BA, JD (Yale)

cole@law.georgetown.edu

t: 202-662-9078

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall 462
600 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001

 

 

 


Research Interests

Constitutional Law
Criminal Procedures
Federal Courts

Subjects Taught

Transnational Law Colloquium - Coordinator (Fall and Spring)
National Security and Human Rights in Transnational and Comparative Perspective (Spring)

Brief Bio

After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Cole 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.S. 397 (1989), United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 928 (1990), which established that the First Amendment protects flag burning, and National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, which challenged the constitutionality of content restrictions on federal art funding. He continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the Center. He has published in a variety of areas, including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law and law and literature. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a commentator on National Public Radio: All Things Considered, and the author of three books: Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New Press, 2d ed. 2005); Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (New Press, 3d ed. 2005) (with James X. Dempsey); and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (New Press, 1999). Enemy Aliens received the American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize in 2004. No Equal Justice was named Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association, and was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001. Professor Cole has received numerous awards for his civil rights and civil liberties work, including from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of the Freedom of Expression, the American Bar Association’s Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, the National Lawyers Guild, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Political Asylum and Immigrants’ Rights Project, the American Muslim Council, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

Representative Publications

Forthcoming Works

1. David D. Cole, Racial Profiling, Entry, in Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (rev. ed. forthcoming).

2. David D. Cole, What Bush Wants to Hear, in Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in an Age of Terror (Richard C. Leone & Greg Anrig, Jr. eds., New York: Century Foundation forthcoming). 

Books

1. David D. Cole & Jules Lobel, Less Safe, Less Free: The Failure of Preemption in the War on Terror (New York: New Press 2007).

2. David D. Cole & James X. Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (New York: New Press rev. 3d ed. 2006).

3. David D. Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New York: New Press rev. pbk. ed. 2005).

4. David D. Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New York: New Press 2004).

5. David D. Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New York: New Press 2003).

Articles

1. David D. Cole, Against Citizenship as a Predicate for Basic Rights, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 2541-2548 (2007).

2. David D. Cole & Peter H. Schuck, Citizenship in a Post 9/11 World, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 2531-2540 (2007).

3. David D. Cole, Double Standards, Democracy, and Human Rights, 18 Peace Rev. 427-437 (2006).

4. David D. Cole, Fighting Terrorism – Not the Constitution, 12 Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities 48-55 (2001/2002).

5. David D. Cole, The Idea of Humanity: Human Rights and Immigrants' Rights, 37 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 627-658 (2006).

6. David D. Cole, The Liberal Legacy of Bush v. Gore, 94 Geo. L.J. 1427-1474 (2006).

7. David D. Cole & Martin S. Lederman, The National Security Agency's Domestic Spying Program: Framing the Debate, 81 Ind. L.J. 1355-1425 (2006).

8. David D. Cole et al., NSA Wiretapping Controversy: A Debate Between Professor David D. Cole and Professor Ruth Wedgwood, 37 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 509-535 (2006).

9. David D. Cole, Reviving the Nixon Doctrine: NSA Spying, the Commander-In-Chief, and Executive Power in the War On Terror, 13 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 17-40 (2006).

10. David D. Cole, Constitutional Crisis?, Dissent, Fall 2005, at 9-10.