David Snyder
Professor of Law
Office: Room 352
Phone: 202-274-4238
E-mail: dsnyder@wcl.american.edu
David Snyder was appointed professor of law at the Washington College of Law in the fall of 2007. He graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University Law School in 1991, and he has been a law professor at Tulane, Indiana University in Bloomington, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at the law schools of Boston University and the College of William and Mary. After graduating from law school, Snyder served as clerk to Hon. John M. Duhé Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and subsequently joined the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson as an associate. Professor Snyder's teaching interests include contracts and commercial law, including their international and comparative aspects. He was chair of the Section on Contracts of the Association of American Law Schools (2005-2006) and is a member of the American Law Institute.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Tulane Law School 1991
- B.A., Yale University 1988
Selected Publications
- David Snyder, Go Out and Look: The Challenge and Promise of Empirical Scholarship in Contract Law, 80 Tul. L. Rev. 1009 (2006). SSRN Link
- David Snyder, Private Lawmaking, 64 Ohio St. L.J. 371 (2003) (reprinted in translated in part into Mandarin Chinese , 6 J. Shandong U. 1 (Jiang Shi-bo trans., 2006), and translated in full, 7 Folk Law ___ (Jiang Shi-bo trans., forthcoming 2007)). SSRN Link
- David Snyder & Randy Barnett, Chapter 13, Conditions, and Chapter 14, Breach, in Contracts: Cases & Doctrine, 839-75 (3d ed., Aspen L. & Bus. 2003).
- David Snyder, Language and Formalities in Commercial Contracts: A Defense of Custom and Conduct, 54 S.M.U. L. Rev. 617 (2001). SSRN Link
- David Snyder, The Law of Contract and the Concept of Change: Public and Private Attempts to Regulate Modification, Waiver, and Estoppel, 1999 Wis. L. Rev. 607 (1999). SSRN Link
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More Publications...
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- David Snyder, Closing the Deal in Contracts: Introducing Transactional Skills in the First Year, 34 U. Toledo L. Rev. 689 (2003).
- David Snyder, Roman Law After the Fall of Rome (Reviewing Roman Law in European History by Peter Stein), in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (H-Law 10-25-1999).
- David Snyder, Comparative Law in Action: Promissory Estoppel, the Civil Law, and the Mixed Jurisdiction, 15 Ariz. J. Intl. & Comp. L. 695 (1998) (reprinted in Louisiana: Microcosm of a Mixed Jurisdiction (Vernon V. Palmer ed., Carolina Academic Press 1999)). SSRN Link
- David Snyder, The Case of Natural Obligations, 56 La. L. Rev. 423 (1995).
- David Snyder, Ancient Law and Modern Eyes, 69 Tul. L. Rev. 1631 (1995).
- David Snyder, Possession: A Brief for Louisiana’s Rights of Succession to the Legacy of Roman Law, 66 Tul. L. Rev. 1853 (1992).
- David Snyder, Comment, Disclosure of Medical Information Under Louisiana and Federal Law, 65 Tul. L. Rev. 169 (1990).
- David Snyder, Recent Development, Coliseum Square Association v. City of New Orleans: Streets for Rent, or Public Things and the Doctrine of Inalienability, 64 Tul. L. Rev. 1280 (1990).
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Selected Works in Progress
- David Snyder, Toward a Unified Transnational Theory of Specific Performance, ().
- David Snyder, Molecular Federalism and the Structures of Private Lawmaking, 14 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. __ (forthcoming 2007). SSRN Link
- David Snyder, Contract Regulation, With and Without the State, 55 Am. J. Comp. L. __ (forthcoming 2008) (reprinted in Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law, ch.__, Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2008).
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Selected Presentations
- David Snyder, Presentation, Contract Regulation, With and Without the State (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Ger., July 13, 2007).
- David Snyder, Presentation, A Consideration of Detrimental Reliance and Personal Bar in Two Mixed Jurisdictions (University of Edinburgh Law School, Edinburgh, Scot., June 26, 2007).
- David Snyder, Presentation, Molecular Federalisms and the Structure of Private Lawmaking (Second International Workshop on Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Can., Nov. 2006).
