David C. Vladeck
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation
B.A., New York University; J.D., Columbia; LL.M., Georgetown
Areas of Expertise:
Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Trial Practice, Clinical Education, Consumer Protection
Professor Vladeck teaches federal courts, civil procedure, administrative law, and seminars in First Amendment litigation, and co-directs the Institute for Public Representation, a clinical law...
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Professor Vladeck teaches federal courts, civil procedure, administrative law, and seminars in First Amendment litigation, and co-directs the Institute for Public Representation, a clinical law program. Professor Vladeck recently returned to the Law Center after serving for nearly four years as the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. At the FTC, he supervised the Bureau's more than 430 lawyers, investigators, paralegals and support staff in carrying out the Bureau's work to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices. Before joining the Law Center faculty full-time in 2002, Professor Vladeck spent over 25 years with Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally-prominent public interest law firm, handling and supervising complex litigation. He has briefed and argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and more than sixty cases before federal courts of appeal and state courts of law resort. He is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform. Professor Vladeck frequently testifies before Congress and writes on administrative law, preemption, First Amendment, and access to justice issues.
Recent Scholarship
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- David C. Vladeck & Kathryn A. Sabbeth, Contracting (Out) Rights, 36 Fordham Urb. L.J. 803-838 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- David C. Vladeck & Kathryn A. Sabbeth, Contracting (Out) Rights, 36 Fordham Urb. L.J. 803-838 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Deconstructing Wyeth v. Levine: The New Limits on Implied Conflict Preemption, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 883-918 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, FDA Preemption, Wyeth, Congress, and a Crystal Ball, 32 Hamline L. Rev. 707-726 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Information Access -- Surveying the Current Legal Landscape of Federal Right-to-Know Laws, 39 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 10773-10782 (2009). [HEIN]
- David C. Vladeck & David A. Kessler, A Critical Examination of the FDA's Effort to Preempt Failure-to-Warn Claims, 96 Geo. L.J. 461-495 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- David C. Vladeck, The Failed Promise of Workplace Health Regulation, 111 W. Va. L. Rev. 15-43 (2008). [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, The FDA and Deference Lost: A Self-Inflicted Wound or the Product of a Wounded Agency? A Response to Professor O'Reilly, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 981-1002 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Information Access--Surveying the Current Legal Landscape of Federal Right-to-Know Laws, 86 Tex. L. Rev. 1787-1836 (2008). [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Panelist at the Federalist Society 2007 National Lawyers Convention: Litigation & Professional Responsibility: Is Overlawyering Overtaking Democracy?, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1433-1466 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Ronald Collins, Mark Lopez & Tamara Piety, Corporations and Commercial Speech, 30 Seattle U. L. Rev. 895-930 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, The Difficult Case of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising, 41 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 259-295 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- David C. Vladeck, Litigating National Security Cases in the Aftermath of 9/11, 2 J. Nat'l Sec. L. & Pol'y 165-193 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- David C. Vladeck & Gaurang Mitu Gulati, Judicial Triage: Reflections on the Debate Over Unpublished Opinions, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1667-1708 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Keeping Score: The Utility of Empirical Measurements in Judicial Selection, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1415-1442 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Preemption and Regulatory Failure, 33 Pepp. L. Rev. 95-132 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Lawrence O. Gostin & Gerald Weber, Commercial Speech and the Public’s Health: Regulating Advertisements of Tobacco, Alcohol, High Fat Foods and Other Potentially Hazardous Products, 32 J.L. Med. & Ethics 32-34 (Supp. 2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Lessons From a Story Untold: Nike v. Kasky Reconsidered, 54 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1049-1089 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- David C. Vladeck et al., Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Tort Litigation, and the Public Good: A Roundtable Discussion to Honor One of America’s Great Trial Judges on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 12 J.L. & Pol'y 149-239 (2004). [HEIN] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Defending Courts: A Brief Rejoinder to Professors Fried and Rosenberg, 31 Seton Hall L. Rev. 631-643 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- David C. Vladeck, Hard Choices: Thoughts for New Lawyers, 10 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 351-368 (2000). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- David C. Vladeck, Truth and Consequences: The Perils of Half-Truths and Unsubstantiated Health Claims of Dietary Supplements, 19 J. Pub. Pol’y & Marketing 132-138 (2000). [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- David C. Vladeck, Preemption and Regulatory Failure Risks, in Preemption Choice: The Theory, Law, and Reality of Federalism's Core Question 54-80 (William W. Buzbee ed., New York: Cambridge University Press 2008).
- David C. Vladeck, In re Arons: The Plight of the "Unrich" in Obtaining Legal Services, in Legal Ethics Stories 255-286 (David Jay Luban & Deborah L. Rhode eds., New York: Foundation Press 2006). [BOOK]
- David C. Vladeck, Unreasonable Delay, Unreasonable Intervention: The Battle to Force Regulation of Ethylene Oxide, in Administrative Law Stories 190-226 (Peter L. Strauss ed., New York: Foundation Press 2006). [BOOK]
- David C. Vladeck, Special Considerations For Lobbying by Non-Profits, in The Lobbying Manual: A Complete Guide to Federal Law Governing Lawyers and Lobbyists 319-339 (William V. Luneburg & Thomas M. Susman eds., Chicago: American Bar Association 3d ed. 2005). [BOOK]
- David C. Vladeck, Sistema judicial abierto, in La Transparencia en imparticon de justicia: Restos y oportunadades (Universidad Nacional Autonama de Mexico 2004).
- David C. Vladeck & Alan B. Morrison, The Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of the Executive Branch, in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right 169-181 (Herman Schwartz ed., New York: Hill & Wang 2002).
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
- Brief of Amici Curiae Former FDA Commissioners Dr. Donald Kennedy and Dr. David A. Kessler in Support of Respondent, Wyeth v. Levine, No. 06-1249 (U.S. Aug. 14, 2008). [Gtown Law]
- Brief of Amici Curiae Members of Congress in Support of Respondents, Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Nos. 07-984, 07-990 (U.S. Nov. 14, 2008). [Gtown Law]
- Brief of Amici Curiae Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, AARP, and Public Justice in Support of Respondents, Altria Group, Inc. v. Good, No. 07-562 (U.S. June 17, 2008). [Gtown Law]
- Brief of Amicus Curiae AARP in Support of Respondents, Warner-Lambert Company LLC v. Kent, No. 06-1498 (U.S. Jan. 18, 2008). [Gtown Law]
- Brief of Respondents, Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy, No. 05-18 (U.S. Mar 28, 2006). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Scott v. Johanns, No. 05-356 (U.S. Sept. 15, 2005). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Brief of Amici Curiae Paralyzed Veterans of America, American Occupational Theraphy Association, et al., Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., No. 03-1388 (U.S. Jul. 5, 2004). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Reply to Brief in Opposition, Chris v. Tenet, No. 00-829 (U.S. Feb. 12, 2001). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Arons v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of DE, No. 00-509 (U.S. Oct 02, 2000). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Chris v. Tenet, No. 00-829 (U.S. Nov 16, 2000). [W] [Gtown Law]
- Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Calhoun v. Yamaha Motor Corp., No. 00-681 (U.S. Oct 30, 2000). [W] [Gtown Law]
Congressional Testimony
- Food Marketing: Can "Voluntary" Government Restrictions Improve Children's Health?: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Commerce, Mfg. & Trade and the Subcomm. on Health of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, 112th Cong., Oct. 12, 2011 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS No.: Pending). [WWW]
- "Do-Not-Track" Legislation — Is Now the Right Time?: Hearing Before the H. Subcomm. on Commerce, Trade, & Consumer Prot. of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, 111th Cong., Dec. 2, 2010 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: Pending).
- Best Practices Act and Personal Information Disclosure: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Commerce, Trade, & Consumer Prot. of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, 111th Cong., July 22, 2010 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: Pending).
- Keeping Score on Credit Scores: An Overview of Credit Scores, Credit Reports, and Their Impact on Consumers: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Fin. Inst. & Consumer Credit of the H. Comm. on Fin. Servs., 111th Cong., Mar. 24, 2010 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: 2011-H371-11).
- Medical Device Safety Act: Hearing Before the H. Subcomm. on Health of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, 111th Cong., May 12, 2009 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: Pending). [Gtown Law]
- Advertising Trends and Consumer Protection: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Commerce, Sci. & Transp., 111th Cong., July 22, 2009 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: 2011-S261-1). [Gtown Law]
- Should FDA Drug and Medical Device Regulation Bar State Liability Claims?: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on Oversight & Gov't Reform, 110th Cong., May 14, 2008 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: 2010-H601-80). [Gtown Law]
- Amending Executive Order 12866: Good Governance or Regulatory Usurpation?: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on Sci. & Tech., 110th Cong., Feb. 13, 2007 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: 2007-H701-41). [Gtown Law]
- Regulatory Preemption: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 110th Cong., Sept. 12, 2007 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No. 2008-S521-10). [Gtown Law]
- Interim Report on the Admin. Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong., Sept. 11, 2006 (Statement of David C. Vladeck) (CIS-No.: 2007-H522-1).
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