David F. Partlett

Biography

From 1974 to 1975, Partlett served as a senior legal officer for the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in Canberra, Australia, where he was responsible for policy advice on the Racial Discrimination Act and other related human rights legislation. Partlett then served as principal law reform officer for the Australian Law Reform Commission before joining the faculty of the Australian National University in 1978. Partlett was a member of the faculty there through 1987 and served as associate dean from 1982 to 1985. Partlett was a visiting professor of law at Vanderbilt during the 1987-88 academic year and then joined the faculty full-time. At Vanderbilt, Partlett served as a senior fellow in the Institute for Public Policy Studies, and as acting dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School, during 1996-97. On July 1, 2000 Partlett became Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law.

1972-1973	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, School of Law
1974-1975	Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, Senior Legal Officer
1975	Part-time Lecturer in Torts, Australian National University
1975-1977	Australian Law Reform Commission, Principal Law Reform Officer
1982	Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia, School of Law
1978-1987	Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader (elect), Faculty of Law, Australian National University
1982-1985	Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Australian National University
1986-1987	John Sparkman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Alabama, School of Law
1987-1988	Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law
1988-2000	Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; Senior Fellow, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies
1996-1997	Acting Dean, Vanderbilt University Law School
2000-2006	Dean and Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law