J.D., Yale Law School, 1978
M.A., Yale University, 1976
B.A., Knox College, 1974
David A. Schulz is director of the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, where he serves as the Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer and a senior research scholar. Over the past four decades, he has represented leading national and international media organizations in their First Amendment, defamation, privacy, intellectual property, and related media law litigation. He has appeared in federal and state courts throughout the United States, before U.S. military commissions, and international tribunals, winning precedent-setting cases on the public’s right of access to government proceedings and information, the constitutional protection for newsgathering, and the right of privacy.
Schulz is a co-author of the leading treatise on newsgathering, "Newsgathering and the Law," 5th ed. (Lexis/Nexis, 2019), and the author of numerous scholarly articles. He currently serves as a general trustee of Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. He is a graduate of Knox College, Yale University, and Yale Law School.
