David Zaring
Visiting Professor of Law - Fall 2007
254 Faculty Suite
Voice: 615-322-2758
Email: david.zaring@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interests
International law and administrative law
Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
B.A. Swarthmore College
Biography
David Zaring’s scholarship addresses administrative and regulatory law from an international perspective. Professor Zaring comes to the law school en route to the faculty of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and from the Washington & Lee University School of Law. At Washington & Lee, he was an assistant professor and Alumni Faculty Fellow from 2005 to 2007. He had previously served as Acting Assistant Professor in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law from 2002 to 2005. Immediately after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, Professor Zaring clerked for Chief Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and then for Judge Judith Rogers on the US. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division and as a special assistant to the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before entering the academy.
Representative Publications
"Young Associates in Trouble," 105 Michigan Law Review 1087 (2007) (with William Henderson)
"Sending the Bureaucracy to War," 92 Iowa Law Review 1359 (2007) (with Elena Baylis)
"The Use of Foreign Decisions by Federal Courts: An Empirical Analysis," 3 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 297 (2006) (peer-reviewed)
"Networking Goes International: An Update," 2 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 211 (2006) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter) (invited contribution)
"Best Practices," 81 New York University Law Review 294 (2006)
"Informal Procedure, Hard and Soft, in International Administration," 5 Chicago International Law Journal 547 (2005)
"National Rulemaking Through Trial Courts: The Big Case and Institutional Reform," 51 UCLA Law Review 1015 (2004)
