Marcella David
Professor of Law & International Studies and Special Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity & Diversity, and Associate Provost for Diversity
marcella-david@uiowa.edu
319-335-9133
451 Boyd Law Building

BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986
JD, University of Michigan School of Law, 1989

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In the 2004-2006 academic years, Professor David served as Interim Associate Provost for Diversity of the university. She is currently serving as Special Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity and Diversity and Associate Provost for Diversity.

Professor David joined the law faculty in 1995. From 1991-92, she studied Human Rights and Comparative Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at the Harvard Law School. In that capacity, she participated in an investigatory mission to Iraq, traveled through South Africa, and researched the impact of economic sanctions in both countries. Her research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations.

In addition to serving as a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, before coming to Iowa Professor David clerked for Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and visited at the University of Chicago School of Law where she taught Contracts and Equal Protection. She has also visited at The University of Pennsylvania.

At Iowa, Professor David teaches, among other subjects, Introduction to Public International Law, International Organizations, US Foreign Relations Law, and Human Rights. She is a member and past chair of the Governing Board of the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-governmental organization that assists in ensuring that university-logoed goods are manufactured under conditions that respect the rights of workers. Her publications include a chapter on "The US Government and Women" in a multi-volume sourcebook on The International Rights of Women (Transnational Press), and articles published in Harvard International Law Journal, Michigan Journal of International Law and Human Rights Quarterly. She recently served as guest editor to a symposium edition of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems addressing economic sanctions on Iraq.

Professor David is a member of the New York Bar. Her international destinations include Iraq, South Africa, Europe, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia and Cuba.