David E. Bernstein

Foundation Professor of Law

B.S., Brandeis University; J.D., Yale University

Professional Information

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Subjects Taught: Constitutional Law, Evidence, Expert and Scientific Evidence, Products Liability, Torts
Curriculum Vitae: CV in PDF format
Area(s) of Expertise: Constitutional Law, Evidence (expert and scientific, Product Liability, Torts, Tort Reform

Contact Information

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Phone: 703-993-8089
Office: Room 416, Arlington Campus
Address: 3301 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22201
Home Page: http://mason.gmu.edu/~dbernste/

Biographical Sketch

DAVID BERNSTEIN is a Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center for Spring 2003 semester and a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law for the 2005-06 academic year.

Professor Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. He is the author of over sixty frequently-cited scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies, including recent or forthcoming articles and review essays in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review (2), Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review (2), Georgetown Law Journal (2), Vanderbilt Law Review, and California Law Review

Professor Bernstein is the author of You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (Cato Institute 2003). He is also the co-author of The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 2003), author of Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke 2001), and co-editor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT 1993). He is currently the chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Evidence section.

Professor Bernstein teaches Torts II, Products Liability, Evidence, American Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Scientific and Expert Evidence, and Environmental Regulation. Professor Bernstein is a contributor to the popular weblog, The Volokh Conspiracy.