David G. Yosifon will begin teaching law at Santa Clara University in August 2006. Before joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, Yosifon served as a visiting professor at Rutgers Law School-Camden, and at New York Law School. Prior to joining the academic ranks he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and as a litigation associate at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, LLP.
Professor Yosifon received his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1995. After Rutgers he attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where in 1997 he received a Masters Degree in American Social History. He received his J.D. from Harvard University in 2002 (Magna Cum Laude).
According to Dean Donald Polden, “Santa Clara University Law School is very pleased that we have attracted a scholar and teacher of David’s talent and stature, and we look forward to the contributions he will make to the academic and educational environment at the law school.”
Professor Yosifon teaches in the areas of corporate law and transaction and professional responsibility. His scholarship, which has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Emory Law Journal and the Georgetown Law Journal is focused on the application of social psychology, and allied social sciences, to law and legal theory. His recent work advances this approach to legal theory through a critique of the conception of human agency that informs conventional legal theoretic and social policy assessments of the public health problems in the United States.