David A. Martin is an American lawyer currently the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law Emeritus at
University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law or UVA Law) is the law school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as part of his "academical v ...
after 36 years of teaching his interests involve are constitutional and international law and immigration
and also previously a Department of Homeland Security advisor and is known as a significant figure in policy on refugees and immigration. He published an article in ''
The Washington Post'' in 2012 regarding immigration policy. He made headlines in 2018 along with three colleagues for resigning from the
Homeland Security Advisory Council in protest of the Trump administration
separating families at the US-Mexico border.
Life and education
He was born to Indiana state senator Charles Wendell Martin and grew up in
Indianapolis
Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...
. After graduating from
DePauw University in 1970 and
Yale Law School and 1975, he worked under Judges
J. Skelly Wright
James Skelly Wright (January 14, 1911 – August 6, 1988) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District ...
and also
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
Born in Suffolk, Virginia, he graduat ...
Publications
* “Improving the Exercise of the Attorney General’s Immigration Referral Power: Lessons from the Battle over the ‘Categorical Approach’ to Classifying Crimes,” 102 Iowa L. Rev. Online 1 (2016).
“Resolute Enforcement Is Not Just for Restrictionists: Building a Stable and Efficient Immigration Enforcement System,”30 J.L. & Pol. 411 (2015).
“Why Immigration’s Plenary Power Doctrine Endures,”68 Okla. L. Rev. 29 (2015).
References
External links
Immigration policy interview
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Virginia School of Law faculty
American lawyers
DePauw University alumni
Yale Law School alumni