Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG) Special Event: 'The Council of Censors, Constitutionality, and Fixing the U.S. Constitution'

Speaker: David H. Moskowitz (D.Phil. Oxford)

David H. Moskowitz will be presenting his paper “The Council of Censors, Constitutionality, and Fixing the U.S. Constitution”. The link to the paper can be found below for those interested – the lecture will not require any pre-reading.

Biography of David H. Moskowitz: David H. Moskowitz practiced law as an attorney for 50 years and retired from practicing law in 2013. He is still involved in real estate development and construction and in biopharmaceutical ventures. When he practiced law, his practice concentrated on real estate and municipal law (serving as counsel to municipalities, municipal authorities, and civic associations), zoning and condemnation law, civil litigation, corporate law (as counsel to public companies and private companies), and international law (working on commercial and/or real estate projects and representing clients in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, and several nations in Europe).

David graduated from Penn State with a degree in accounting and finished law school at Villanova University. Before Dave started practicing law, he decided that he should obtain a broad education in many subjects. He applied to Wadham College (Oxford University). His tutor was H.L.A. Hart for his first year at Oxford (1960-61). He asked Hart to tutor him for a second year, and Hart explained that he would have to be a graduate student to continue. Hart gave him a test of a critique of The Concept of Law (he gave David the galley proofs of the book to read in the summer of 1961). Following a long discussion about the book in September 1961, David became a D.Phil. candidate, and he received the degree after his second year at Oxford.

David served as a law clerk for a Court of Common Pleas judge in Philadelphia for one year writing all of his judicial opinions. After that year, he spent a post-doc year at the Universidad Nacional Autonomic de Mexico studying with Professor Luis Recasens Siches. He then served a second clerkship with eight judges in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County writing memoranda of law for the judges.

David taught political science at Rider College (1967-1972) and jurisprudence as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School (1972-1975).

David wrote his first book Exclusionary Zoning Litigation in 1976. In 2017, he authored a second book entitled Finding the Genetic Cause and Therapy for ADJD, Autism, and 22Q. Huge Jam published his first book in the Creative Positivist series, The Judge and the Umpire, in 2022. The 2nd book in the series, The Judge and the Philosopher, followed in 2023 and the third book in that series, The Judge and the President was published in 2024. He also wrote and published The Fake elector Playbook in 2024. He is now writing the fourth book in the series entitled The Judge and the Constitution.

You can find the links to the paper and the meeting below.

The paper: https://bit.ly/3LYMKfL

The meeting link: https://bit.ly/48khaRc

The Paper: https://bit.ly/cltdg-romero-paper

The Zoom link: https://bit.ly/cltdg-lent24-3

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