David A. Martin papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Extent:
42 Cubic Feet 96 archival boxes
Creator:
Martin, David A., 1948-
Language:
English

Background

Biographical / historical:

David A. Martin, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, was born in 1948. He received his BA from DePauw University in 1970 and his JD from Yale University in 1975. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright, at the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1975-1976, and the next year for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. at the US Supreme Court. From 1977-1978 he worked as an associate with Rogovin, Stern & Huge in the District of Columbia. He left the firm to become Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Department of State, a position he held from 1978-1980. Later in 1980, he came to the University of Virginia Law School as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1985.

In 1984-1985, he was a German Marshall Fund and Ford Foundation Research Fellow in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, Martin took a leave of absence from the Law School to work as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC, until December 1997 when he returned to Charlottesville. Martin teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, and International Law.

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