Professor David Vladeck teaches civil procedure, federal courts, and an advanced seminar in administrative law. Before joining the law school faculty, he spent over 25 years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally recognized public interest law firm, serving in the last ten years as the Group’s director. He has briefed and argued several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and has argued more than sixty cases before federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort.

In 2020, David served as a visiting professor at the law school, teaching civil procedure, and a seminar in first amendment litigation. He joined the full-time faculty in 2002, supervising Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights Clinic.

From 2009 to 2013, David took leave from Georgetown to serve as the Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. At the FTC, he supervised the Bureau’s 450 lawyers, investigators, paralegals and support staff carrying out the Bureaus’ work to protect consumers from unfair, deception or fraudulent practices.

After returning to Georgetown, David founded Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology along with Alvaro Bedoya to continue the privacy work he spearheaded at the FTC. He remains the Center’s Faculty Director.

David is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is also on the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council and chairs its Litigation Committee. He also served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology and Law, and its Forum on Cyber Resilience.

As for David’s scholarship, his more recent writings focus on privacy and the impact of technology in ways that harm consumers.