Associate Professor David Schleicher is a 2004 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He also holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and graduated magna cum laude with an AB in Economics and Government from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

After law school Professor Schleicher was a clerk for the Honorable Carlos Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was associated with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where he worked on cases involving the Voting Rights Act and securities fraud. From 2006-2008 Professor Schleicher was Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught Election Law and Legal Research and Writing.

His research examines issues in election law and local government law. His election law research looks at how laws affect political party competition, particularly in the context of low salience local and state elections. This work has been described as "creative and provocative", "bubbling over with ideas" and praised for "fram[ing] a research agenda for the field" of election law. His work in local government law has been similarly praised. Schleicher has been recognized as an innovator in integrating local government law with modern economic work on cities and agglomeration economics.

His work has appeared in a number of law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Supreme Court Economic Review and the Election Law Journal, among others.