David Rudovsky

David Rudovsky is a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing and Feinberg, and a Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he teaches evidence and constitutional criminal procedure. In 1986 he was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Rudovsky has twice appeared before the United States Supreme Court, losing both times. He represented the plaintiffs in both Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511 (1985), which dealt with the authority of the government to execute warrantless wiretaps, and City of Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378 (1989), which addressed the liability of a municipality for failure to adequately train its police officers.

External links

• University of Pennsylvania Faculty Page
• David Rudovsky speaks about 9/11

Works

• Michael Avery, Karen Blum and David Rudovsky, Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation (Clark Boardman Co., 2006, 3rd ed.).
• David Rudovsky, Alan Bronstein and Ed. Koren, The Rights of Prisoners (1990).
• David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov, Criminal Law in Pennsylvania (West Publ. Co. 2006, 2nd ed.).
• Human Rights in Northern Ireland (Helsinki Watch, 1991, with Norman Dorsen and Lois Whitman).
• The Law of Arrest, Search and Seizure in Pennsylvania (PBR Press, 2005, 3rd ed.).
• “Running in Place: The Paradox of Expanding Rights and Restricted Remedies, “ 2005 Ill. L. Rev. 1199 (2005).
• “Law Enforcement By Stereotypes and Serendipity: Racial Profiling and Searches
• Without Cause,” 3 U.Pa.J. of Constitutional Law, 296 (2001).
• The Impact of the War on Drugs on Procedural Fairness and Racial Equality, 1994 Univ. of Chicago L. Forum 237 (1994).
• Police Abuse: Can The Violence Be Contained?, 27 Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties L. Rev. 465 (1992).
• Crime, Law Enforcement, and Constitutional Rights, in A Less Than Perfect Union, Jules Lobel, ed. (1988).
• Criminal Justice: The Accused, in Our Endangered Rights, Norman Dorsen, ed. (1984).
• The Criminal Justice System and the Role of the Supreme court, The Politics of Law, David Kairys, ed. (Pantheon, 1990).
• John Gray and David Rudovsky, The Court Acknowledges the Illegitimate, 118 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1969).
• The Right to Counsel Under Attack, 136 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1965 (1988).
• The Qualified Immunity Doctrine in the Supreme Court: Judicial Activism and the Restriction of Constitutional Rights, 138 U. Pa. L. Rev. 23 (1989).
• Norman Dorsen and David Rudovsky, Some Thoughts on Dissent, Personal Liberty and War, 54 ABA Journal 752 (1968).
• Book Review, Judicial First Aid, The Nation, August 17, 1977, p. 153.
• Litigating Prison Conditions in Philadelphia, 65 Prison Journal 64 (1985).