David Sklansky, professor of law

David Alan Sklansky, professor of law, teaches and writes about criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he also serves as faculty chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 2005, after a decade at UCLA School of Law, where he won the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award and was twice voted the law school's professor of the year.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1984, Sklansky clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He briefly practiced labor law at the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. From 1987 to 1994, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he specialized in white-collar fraud prosecutions. While at UCLA, he served as special counsel to the independent review panel appointed to investigate the L.A. Police Department's Rampart Division scandal. Sklansky's publications include Democracy and the Police; Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems; and a range of articles on policing, criminal procedure, and evidence law.