David R. Upham
Associate Professor of Law
Email: dupham@stu.edu
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.A., Middlebury College
M.A., Boston College
M.A., University of Dallas
Ph.D., University of Dallas
J.D., University of Texas School of Law
David R. Upham
Professor David R. Upham received his J.D. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas. Professor Upham has extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation, and has for over fifteen years, taught graduate and undergraduate courses in law, American politics, and political theory.
Professor Upham’s scholarly work has focused on American constitutional history, and in particular the original meaning and development of the Fourteenth Amendment. His book, Taking American Citizenship Seriously and the Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment, is scheduled for publication in early 2025.
Books:
Taking American Citizenship Seriously and the Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment (forthcoming 2025).
Book Chapters:
Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction, in CHALLENGES TO THE AMERICAN FOUNDING: SLAVERY, HISTORICISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 139–60. (Ronald J. Pestritto & Thomas G. West eds., 2004).
Articles:
An Essay on Substantive Due Process and the Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, 11 FAULKNER L. REV. 35 (2019).
A Coherent Measure. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE (August 2019).
The Understanding of “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist” Before the Thirteenth Amendment, 15 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 137 (2017).
The Founders and the Conditions of Popular Deliberation, in CONSTITUTIONALISM, EXECUTIVE POWER, AND POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT 281 (Giorgi Areshidze, Paul Carrese, and Suzanna Sherry eds.) (SUNY Press, 2016).
Corfield v. Coryell and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship, 83 TEXAS L. REV. 1483 (2005).
Book Reviews:
Book Review, 50 IDEAS ON LIBERTY 61–62 (September 2000) (reviewing GARY ROSEN, AMERICAN COMPACT: JAMES MADISON AND THE PROBLEM OF FOUNDING (1999)).
Book Review, 98 THE FREEMAN 709–710 (November 1998) (reviewing HAMILTON’S REPUBLIC: READINGS IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC NATIONALIST TRADITION (Michael Lind ed. 1997)).