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David Bruck

Email: bruckd@wlu.edu
Office: 220 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8188
Fax: 540-458-8580

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David I. Bruck

Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse

B.A. 1971, Harvard College, magna cum laude; J.D. 1975, University of South Carolina, cum laude


Publications

Books, including monographs and treatises

Death Watch: Change, Redemption Do Exist, The Champion, June 27, 2003, at 33. (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Does the Death Penalty Matter? Reflections of a Death Row Lawyer, 1 Reconstruction, No. 3 (1991), at 35 (1990 Ralph E. Shikes Lecture, Harvard Law School).

Book Chapters

Simmons v. South Carolina (1994) in Death Penalty Stories (Foundation Press 2009)

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

A Rarefied Kind of Dread, 5 J. App. Prac. & Process 75 (2003). (First Arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States.) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Capital Punishment in the Age of Terrorism, 41 Cath. Law. 187 (2002) (Panel Discussion with Norman L. Greene, Norman Redlich, Paul Saunders, Richard Weisberg, and Kenneth Roth). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

A Tribute to William S. Geimer, 58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 412 (2001). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Keynote Address: Political and Social Misconception Fueling the Death Penalty, 13 T.M. Cooley L. Rev. 863 (1996) (Death Penalty Symposium). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Can You Stop Client Interrogation Behind Your Back?, S.C. Law., Nov./Dec. 1991, at 31. (Available at: Westlaw)

Sentencing the Mentally Retarded to Death: A Eighth Amendment Analysis, 41 Ark. L. Rev. 725 (1988) (The Mentally Retarded in the Criminal Justice System Symposium). (with David A. Bruck and John Blume) (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Book Reviews

Book Review, The New Republic, Jan. 20, 1986, at 27 (reviewing James Q. Wilson et al., Crime and Human Nature (1985)). (Available at: ExpAcad)

Book Review, 238 The Nation 266 (1984) (reviewing Alan Dershowitz, The Best Defense (1982) and James S. Kunen, How Can You Defend Those People?: The Making of a Criminal Lawyer (1983)).

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

Habeas Corpse: The Right Appeal Under Fire, The New Republic, July 15, 1991, at 10. (with David A. Bruck and Leslie Harris) (Available at: ProQuest; Westlaw)

On Death Row in Pretoria Central: Capital Punishment in South Africa. It's Not All That Different, The New Republic, July 13, 1987, at 18. (Available at: Westlaw)

Is the Death Penalty Only for Killers of Whites?, Wash. Post, Oct. 12, 1986, at D1. (Available at: Lexis; ProQuest; Westlaw)

The Death Penalty: An Exchange, The New Republic, May 20, 1985, at 20. (with David A. Bruck and Edward I. Koch) (Available at: Westlaw)

Executing Teen Killers Again, Wash. Post, Sept. 15, 1985, at D01. (Available at: ProQuest; Westlaw)

Executing Juveniles for Crime, N.Y. Times, June 16, 1984, at 23. (Available at: ProQuest)

Decisions of Death, The New Republic, Dec. 12, 1983, at 18.

Strom Thurmond's Roots, The New Republic, March 3, 1982, at 15.

The Four Men Strom Thurmond Sent to the Chair, Wash. Post, April 26, 1981, at C1. (Available at: Lexis; ProQuest)


For the Media

Professor Bruck is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Death Penalty 

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