David D. Meyer
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor
Phone: 217-333-3232
Email: dmeyer@illinois.edu
B.A., J.D. University of Michigan
Courses
Constitutional Law
Family Law
Parent, Child & State
TortsA leading scholar at the intersection of constitutional law and family law, Dean David Meyer serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. His articles have appeared in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and other journals. Dean Meyer has served as U.S. national reporter on family law at the past three congresses of the International Academy of Comparative Law, in Washington, D.C. (2009), Utrecht (2006), and Brisbane (2002). In 2006, Dean Meyer delivered the Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture at Hofstra University School of Law and the inaugural Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law at the University of Florida.
Dean Meyer (dmeyer@illinois.edu) received his B.A. in History with Highest Honors and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court. He also served as a Legal Advisor to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague and practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Chicago before joining the Illinois faculty in 1996.
Dean Meyer has been a visiting professor at George Washington University Law School and Brooklyn Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
