Professor of Law
B.A. 1986, University of California at Los Angeles; J.D. 1990, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Professor David McGowan teaches and writes in the areas of securities regulation, contracts, corporations, professional responsibility and the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property. His current research includes theories of collective behavior, such as network economic theory, the role of organizational analysis in assessing legal problems, the changing nature of the legal profession, and legal history.
McGowan received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986 and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, in 1990. At Boalt he was a member of the Order of the Coif, recipient of the prize for best student publication, and an associate editor of the California Law Review. McGowan served as a law clerk to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 1990 Term. After clerking, he practiced in the fields of securities and antitrust litigation and counseling for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1991 to 1994; he practiced as an associate and later a director of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin from 1994 to 1998. From 1995 to 1998, McGowan was a lecturer at Boalt Hall, teaching corporations and corporate control transactions. He joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1998.
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