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David Schultz

David Schultz is professor in the Hamline University School of Business where he teaches doctoral and masters-level students in public, non-profit, and business administration. David teaches classes including professional ethics, legislative process, research methods, housing and economic policy, and public policy. Professor Schultz also holds appointments in the Hamline University Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, and at the University of Minnesota law school where he teaches election law, state constitutional law, and professional responsibility (legal ethics).  He also is a senior fellow at the Institute of Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Professor

Star Tribune Op-ed:  The Constitutionality of Instant Runoff Voting
Star Tribune Op-ed: The Constitutionality of Instant Runoff Voting
Schultz has a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. (law degree) from the University of Minnesota, an LLM from the University of London, M.A.s in political science and philosophy from Rutgers University and SUNY Binghamton respectively, a Masters of Astronomy from James Cook University (history of astronomy) and a B.A. in political science and philosophy from SUNY Binghamton. Previously he has taught classes in American politics, political participation, campaigns and elections, urban politics, state and local government, and constitutional law, and at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas), and Gustavus Adolphus College.  He has also
Judicial Selection in Minnesota:  Options After Republican Party v. White
Judicial Selection in Minnesota: Options After Republican Party v. White
taught at the University of St. Thomas and Hamline University law schools.

Professor Schultz is the author of  over 20 books, 12 legal treatises, and over 50 articles on topics ranging from civil service reform, campaign finance reform, eminent domain law, constitutional law, and the media and politics. His most recent publications include The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties (M.E. Sharpe, 2005), the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (Facts on File, Inc., 2005), and Lights, Camera, Campaign!  Media, Politics, and Political Advertising (Peter Lang, 2004).

In addition to teaching, Professor Schultz was president of Common Cause Minnesota from 1994-1999,

The Corporate University in American Society
The Corporate University in American Society
served as their lobbyist, and twice as the interim executive director. He has served as vice-president of the Minnesota and Texas chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, and he has also been on the board of directors for numerous non-profit organizations. Previously he served on the National Civic League's model cities charter revision committee (helping to write the new 8th edition of the Model Cities Charter), the Urban Coalition Board of Directors, and  the Ramsey County Home Rule Charter Commission (2000 - 2004).

Prior to teaching, David was a city administrator and director of code enforcement in New York State, where he enforced city and state housing codes as well as authored housing

Litigating State Constitutional Claims
Litigating State Constitutional Claims
codes. He also was a housing and economic planner and a community organizer for a community action agency.

David is a nationally-recognized expert on political ethics, money and politics, political participation, and eminent domain law and has been a frequent commentator on television, radio, and in over 100 domestic and international newspapers and periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Today Show (NBC), ABC News, CBS News, Cox News Service,, Time, Newsweek, Radio Free Europe, La Nouvelle Observateur, L'Express, National Public Radio Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post,

David Schultz
Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express News, Channel One, People Magazine, Money, Dallas Morning News, Boston Herald,, Idaho Falls Post Register, Charleston Daily News, San Diego Union-Tribune, Arlington Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Manhattan South, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, St. Paul Legal Ledger, Chicago Tribune, St. Cloud Times, Minnesota Public Radio, CNET Radio (San Francisco), Wisconsin Public Radio, WCCO Television, WCCO radio, KSTP radio, KFAN radio, KARE-TV, KSTP television, WWOR radio, ESPN radio, Almanac (public television), and the Hartford Courier.

Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties  
The Corporate University in American Society  What's wrong with American higher education? See my new article on what happens when colleges discover the marketplace
Judicial Selection in Minnesota: Options After Republican Party v. White  What will Minnesota judicial elections look like in the future? More competitive, nasty, and expensive? Read on.
How to argue with Ann Coulter and win!  Why are progressives losing the war of words?
David Schultz's photo tour of Armenia.  


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Infrastructure on Borrowed Time

How to argue with Ann Coulter and win!

Professor Schultz, Fulbright Senior Specialist, taught election law in Armenia

Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court

David Schultz


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