University of Dallas

David R. Upham, Ph.D.

Expertise
  Constitutional Law and History, Political and Legal Theory

Education
  J.D., University of Texas School of Law (2005)
  Ph.D., University of Dallas (2002)
  M.A., University of Dallas (2000)
  M.A., Boston College (1995)
  B.A., Middlebury College (1993)

Recent Courses
  POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
  POL 3323/5302 Constitutional Law
  POL 3360/5308 Lincoln and His Times
  POL 3327 Civil Rights
  POL 4352 Public Law and Administration 

Recent and Representative Publications
"In 'Candy Cane Case,' Conservatives Should Root for the Principals," National Review Online, June 16, 2011

• "Is Texas Messing With History?"  The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2010
• Note, Corfield v. Coryell and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship, 83 TEXAS L. REV. 1483 (2005).
• Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction, in Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century, 139-60 (Ronald J. Pestritto & Thomas G. West eds. 2004)
• The Primacy of Property Rights and the American Founding, 98 THE FREEMAN 79-83 (February 1998) (first-place entry in Garvey Fellowship Essay Contest)
• Texas Law Review, Manual on Usage & Style (10th ed. 2005) (coeditor)