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David S. Han

Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Professor of Law
Caruso School of Law
310.506.6274
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Professor Han’s scholarship focuses on First Amendment law and tort law. His work has been published in journals such as the New York University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Emory Law Journal, William and Mary Law Review, and Wisconsin Law Review.

At Pepperdine, Professor Han teaches in the areas of First Amendment law, tort law, and criminal procedure. Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, he was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law. He also practiced as a litigation associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson in San Francisco, where he worked on a broad range of trial and appellate matters.

Professor Han is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He received a B.A. with distinction, magna cum laude, in English Language and Literature from Yale University. Before entering law school, he worked as a strategic planning analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as the notes chair of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable David H. Souter on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Education

  • J.D., Harvard University, 2005, magna cum laude
  • B.A., Yale University, 2000, magna cum laude

 

Forthcoming Articles

  • David S. Han, Compelled Speech, Speaker Perception, and Plausibility, 77 FLA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2025) 
  • David S. Han, Free Speech and Public Self-Definition, 51 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (forthcoming 2024) SSRN

Articles

  • David S. Han, Compelled Speech and Doctrinal Fluidity, 97 IND. L.J. 841 (2022) (symposium) SSRN HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Constitutional Rights and Technological Change, 54 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 71 (2020) SSRN HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Managing Constitutional Boundaries in Speech-Tort Jurisprudence, 69 DEPAUL L. REV. 495 (2020) (symposium) HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Brandenburg and Terrorism in the Digital Age, 85 BROOK. L. REV. 85 (2019)
    (symposium) SSRN HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Categorizing Lies, 89 U. COLO. L. REV. 613 (2018) (symposium) HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Conspiracy Theories and the Marketplace of Facts, 16 FIRST AMEND. L. REV. 178 (2018) (symposium) HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Terrorist Advocacy and Exceptional Circumstances, 86 FORDHAM L. REV. 487 (2017) (symposium) SSRN HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Middle-Value Speech, 91 S. CAL. L. REV. 65 (2017) SSRN HeinOnline
  • David S. Han, The Value of First Amendment Theory, 2015 U. ILL. L. REV. SLIP OPINIONS 87 (invited response) SSRN
  • David S. Han, Transparency in First Amendment Doctrine, 65 EMORY L.J. 359 (2015) (symposium) SSRNHeinOnline
  • David S. Han, The Mechanics of First Amendment Audience Analysis, 55 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1647 (2014), reprinted in THE FIRST AMENDMENT LAW HANDBOOK (Rodney A. Smolla, ed., West 2014-15) SSRNHeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Rethinking Speech-Tort Remedies, 2014 WIS. L. REV. 1135 (2014) SSRNHeinOnline
  • David S. Han, Autobiographical Lies and the First Amendment's Protection of Self-Defining Speech, 87 N.Y.U. L. REV. 70 (2012), reprinted in THE FIRST AMENDMENT LAW HANDBOOK (Rodney A. Smolla, ed., West 2012-13) SSRNHeinOnline

Book Chapters

  • David S. Han, Disentangling “Cancel Culture”, in MINORITIES, FREE SPEECH, AND THE INTERNET (Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Alexander Tsesis, Jędrzej Skrzypczak eds., Routledge 2023) Worldcat 

Topics

  • First Amendment Law
  • Torts

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