David D. Cole
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Nationality | American |
Spouse | Nina Pillard |
Education | Yale University (BA, JD) |
David D. Cole is the National Legal Director of the
Legal career
Cole graduated
After leaving the Center for Constitutional Rights, David Cole began teaching at Georgetown University Law Center. While teaching at Georgetown Law, Cole continued to litigate constitutional law and civil liberties, both at home and abroad. During the 1990s, Cole argued over a dozen cases in various U.S. District and Circuit Courts, and appeared before the Supreme Court three times (Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, 513 U.S. 374 (1995), National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), and Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 525 U.S. 471 (1999)).[4] Internationally, Cole successfully challenged Ireland's constitutional prohibition on counseling about abortion before the European Court of Human Rights in Open Door Counselling, Ltd. v. Republic of Ireland, ECHR Judgment of October 19, 1992, Ser. A, No. 246.[4] He returned to Europe in Fall 2007 to teach at the University College London School of Public Policy and serve as Co-Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London from 2008 to 2009.[4]
Cole was named Co-Chair of the Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Committee in 2001[5] and joined the Advisory Committee for the Free Expression Policy Project in 2003.[4] He has served on boards for a number of public interest organizations including Human Rights Watch Advisory Committee, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security. His most recent appearance before the Supreme Court was in 2010, challenging the First and Fifth Amendment implications of the USA PATRIOT Act's prohibition on providing "material support" to terrorist groups in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 561 U.S. 1 (2010). From 2013 to 2014, Cole was a Fellow with the Open Society Foundations, an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros that dispenses financial contributions to various liberal and progressive political causes in the United States.
Academic career
David Cole was a member of the
Cole has written eight books for which he has received numerous awards, including the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties, the American Book Award (2004), and Boston Book Review's Best Non-Fiction Book (1999).
Media commentary
Cole has been the Legal Affairs Correspondent for
Honors and awards
David Cole has received awards from professional bodies and campaigning groups for his civil rights and civil liberties work, including from the American Bar Association's Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, the National Lawyers Guild, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the American Muslim Council.[5] In 2004 he received the William J. Brennan Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, which cited Cole as "one of the nation's most accomplished advocates for freedom of expression and an outstanding scholar of the First Amendment".[10]
In 2013 David Cole also was the first recipient of the ACLU's Norman Dorsen Presidential Prize for academic contributions to civil liberties.[11][12]
Publications
- Cole, David (November 1994). "Playing by Pornography's Rules: The Regulation of Sexual Expression". JSTOR 3312517.
- Cole, David (2000). No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. OCLC 40678592.
- Cole, David; James X. Dempsey (2002). Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. OCLC 50558833.
- Cole, David (2003). Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. OCLC 52001716.
- Cole, David (January–February 2009). "Closing Guantánamo: The problem of preventive detention". Boston Review. 34 (1).
- Cole, David (2009). The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable. ISBN 978-1-59558-492-2.
- Cole, David (March 29, 2016). Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law. Basic Books. OCLC 1005838743.
Personal life
Cole is married to former Georgetown Law professor and current D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge
References
- ^ a b Zeesman, Marsha (2016-07-21). "Welcoming Constitutional Expert David Cole as Our New National Legal Director". aclu.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ^ "Georgetown Law Faculty: David D. Cole biography and selected publications". Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
- ^ "Mitchell Professorship Awarded". 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Profile David Cole — Georgetown Law". www.law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ ISBN 9781598844078.
- ^ "ACLU Taps Constitutional Expert David Cole as National Legal Director". American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ISBN 9780465060900.
- ^ "David Cole". The Nation. 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
- ^ "David Cole | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
- ^ The William J. Brennan, Jr. Award Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Accessed December 7, 2014
- ^ "Professor David Cole to Receive ACLU Foundation Award for Lifetime Commitment to Civil Liberties — Georgetown Law". Law.georgetown.edu. 2013-01-31. Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
- ACLUnews release, May 31, 2013. Accessed December 7, 2014
- ^ "Georgetown Law goes international | The Georgetown VoiceThe Georgetown Voice". Georgetownvoice.com. 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
External links
- Georgetown Law Faculty: David D. Cole biography and selected publications
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- The Nation: articles by David D. Cole
- SSRN: articles by David D. Cole
- Video: David Cole - Enemy Aliens & Constitutional Freedoms (February 27, 2007)
- Cole article archive from The New York Review of Books
- Appearances on C-SPAN