
Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy
David D. Cole
B.A., Yale; J.D., Yale
Areas of Expertise:
- Constitutional Law
- Courts and Judges
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- National Security, Military, War and Peace
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Scholarship
David D. Cole, Trump’s Inquisitor, N.Y. Rev. Books, Apr. 19, 2018, at 16, 18.
David D. Cole, The Truth About Our Prison Crisis, N.Y. Rev. Books, June 22, 2017, at 29-31 (reviewing John F. Pfaff, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform (2017) & James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017)).
Book Chapters & Collected Works
David D. Cole, Foreword, in Richard L. Abel, Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US "War on Terror" vii-vii (New York: Cambridge University Press 2018).
[BOOK]David D. Cole, The Changing Politics of Crime and the Future of Mass Incarceration, in 1 Reforming Criminal Justice 13-23 (Erik Luna ed., Phoenix, Ariz.: Academy for Justice 2017). [WWW]
David D. Cole & Federico Fabbrini, Transatlantic Negotiations for Transatlantic Rights: Why an EU-US Agreement Is the Best Option for Protecting Privacy Against Cross-Border Surveillance, in Surveillance, Privacy and Transatlantic Relations 197-213 (David D. Cole, Federico Fabbrini & Stephen Schulhofer eds., Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing 2017). [BOOK]
In The News
"The Alito opinion would be like Plessy overturning Brown v. Board of Education," an opinion piece by Professor David Cole, coverage in The Washington Post, May 5, 2022.
"Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People," coverage in the Washingtonian, May 3, 2022, featuring Professor Rosa Brooks, Professor Paul Butler, Professor Sheryll Cashin, Professor David Cole, Professor Lawrence Gostin, and Visiting Professor Elisa Massimino.
"The Supreme Court teaches students an important lesson on free speech," an opinion piece by Professor David D. Cole in The Washington Post, June 23, 2021,
"Armed with Arguments," coverage in The New York Review of Books, April 3, 2021, featuring Professor David Cole.