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Tel: 215.898.3087
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: drudovsk@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Evidence
- Public Interest
- Civil Rights Law
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
Bio
David Rudovsky is considered one of the nation’s most renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorneys.
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David Rudovsky is considered one of the nation’s most renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorneys. He has litigated major civil rights and police misconduct cases for over three decades. Rudovsky has been a Senior Fellow at the Law School since 1987, teaching courses in Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure and Evidence. At the same time he has continued his unique public interest law practice with the firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing. He has also written widely in the civil liberties/civil rights area, and has contributed both scholarly articles and litigation related books for practicing lawyers and judges. Rudovsky takes his litigation experience into the classroom where he integrates doctrine and practice to give his students a comprehensive understanding of legal principles and their role and application in the courts. Rudovsky has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and Award for Accomplishments in Civil Rights Law and Criminal Justice, the ACLU Civil Liberties Award, and most recently his fourth Harvey Levin Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Senior Fellow (1988 -); Visiting Associate Professor of Law (1987); Instructor (1972-86)
Defender Association of Philadelphia - First Assistant Defender (1983-86)
Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing - Founding Partner, practice focused on civil rights and civil liberties litigation (1971 -)
Staff Attorney and Chief, Motions Division, Defender Association of Philadelphia (1967-71)
Representative Publications
Running in Place: The Paradox of Expanding Rights and Restricted Remedies, 2005 U. ILL. L. REV. 1199.
THE LAW OF ARREST, SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN PENNSYLVANIA (PBI Press, 2d edition, 2003).
Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with Seth Kreimer) (2002).
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CRIMINAL LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA (West Publ. Co. 2007) (with LEONARD SOSNOV).
POLICE MISCONDUCT: LAW AND LITIGATION (3d ed., Clark Boardman Co. 2007) (with MICHAEL AVERY and KAREN BLUM).
HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND (Helsinki Watch, 1991, with NORMAN DORSEN and LOIS WHITMAN).
THE RIGHTS OF PRISONERS (1990) (with ALAN BRONSTEIN and ED KOREN).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Philadelphia Bar Association, Cesare Beccaria Award for Criminal Justice Accomplishments (2005).
Member, Board of Directors, Defender Association of Philadelphia (1979-83, 1996-present)
National Vice-President, National Lawyers Guild (1979-80)
President, Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (1994-2006)
Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union; General Counsel to Pennsylvania ACLU (1991-1993)
Judge Gerald F. Flood Memorial Award (For Public Interest Accomplishments), Philadelphia Bar Foundation (1985)
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and Award for Accomplishments in Civil Rights Law and Criminal Justice (1986)
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