BiographyDavid L. Chambers is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He practiced in Washington and served on the staff of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Professor Chambers is the author of Making Fathers Pay, an empirical inquiry into the enforcement of child support. He is noted for work on the differing experiences of men and women in the law profession as well as for work on AIDS and on child custody, same-sex marriage and other issues in family law. He has served as president of the Society of American Law Teachers and as co-chair of the Task Force on Diversity in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools. He began his academic career at Michigan in 1969. He retired in 2002 to write fiction. His novel, The Old Whitaker Place, is the co-winner of the 2009 Miami University Press Novella Contest. It will be published in June 2010.
If you would like to contact Professor Chambers please do so through Trudy Feldkamp, 734.936.0776, University of Michigan Law School, 307 Hutchins Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1215.
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Board of Regents Memoir
"David L. Chambers: Memoir" Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1954-1957), 155-156.
Law Quadrangle Notes Articles
"Chambers: 'This place has been my home'," 45 L. Quadrangle Notes 30-31 (Summer, 2002).
"Chairs honor professors," 35 L. Quadrangle Notes 6-7 (1992).
"Chambers, Vining Join Law Faculty" 14 L. Quadrangle Notes 4-5 (Fall, 1969).