David H. Taylor
Director of Skills Training & Presidential Teaching Professor
B.A., Duke University
J.D., Washington University
Email: dtaylor@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-0560
Room: 192A
Biography
David Taylor teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Evidence, Trial Advocacy and Lawyering Skills; and coaches students in Client Counseling, National Moot Court and Mock Trial Competitions. Additionally, Professor Taylor is Director of Skills Training. In 2006, Professor Taylor was named a Presidential Teaching Professor, the highest teaching honor bestowed by NIU. Prior to joining the faculty, he practiced for 10 years with Prairie State Legal Services, where he was a staff attorney and most recently held the position of deputy director of litigation. While practicing with legal services, Professor Taylor litigated several significant public housing and welfare class actions.
Articles
- ExParte Domestic Violence Orders of Protection: How Easing Access to Judicial Process Has Eased the Possibility for Abuse of the Process, 23 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 83 (2008).
- Defending the Indefensible to Further a Later Case: Sanctioning Respondents in Illinois Domestic Violence Cases, 23 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 403 (2003).
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- Should It Take A Thief?: Rethinking the Admission of Illegally Obtained Evidence in Civil Cases, 22 Rev. Litig. 625 (2003).
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- Surveying Gender Bias at One Midwestern Law School, 9 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 251 (2002)(with Lisa A. Wilson).
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- Civil Procedure by Contract: A Convoluted Confluence of Private Contract and Public Procedure in Need of Congressional Control, 35 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1085 (2002) (with Sara Cliffe).
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- Filing With Your Fingers Crossed: Should a Party Be Sanctioned for Filing a Claim to Which There is a Dispositive, Yet Waivable, Affirmative Defense?, 47 Syracuse L. Rev. 1037 (1997).
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- Rambo as Potted Plant: Local Rulemaking's Preemptive Strike Against Witness-Coaching During Depositions, 40 Vill. L. Rev. 1057 (1995).
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- Conflicts of Interest and the Indigent Client: Barring the Door to the Last Lawyer in Town, 37 Ariz. L. Rev. 577 (1995).
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- The Forum Selection Clause: A Tale of Two Concepts, 66 Temp. L. Rev. 785 (1993).
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- Defendant Class Actions Under Rule 23(b)(2): Resolving the Language Dilemma, 40 U. Kan. L. Rev. 77 (1991).
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Areas of Expertise:
Civil Procedure, Evidence, Poverty Law, Litigation and Trial Practice
