 | Adjunct Professor david.mg.katz@gmail.com |
David Katz joined the College of Law in January 2024 as an adjunct professor of law. He teaches the Legal Applications residency for the JDi program alongside Professors Brown, Gidi, and Risman.
Katz has spent his career in civil litigation and currently works as a civil defensive litigator across the federal court litigation spectrum. His prior practice included both defensive and affirmative civil litigation and commercial litigation across New York State at the trial and appellate levels.
He has authored the Torts article for the Syracuse Law Review’s “Survey of New York Law” since 2020. His student note, “Assessing the Federal Rules’ Proportionality Amendment: Why Proportionality is Philosophically Proper, Yet Practically Problematic,” was published in Syracuse Law Review in 2017.
Since 2018, he has been active in the Syracuse Law’s National Moot Court Competition and American Bar Association National Advocacy Competition teams.
Katz received a B.A. in the College Scholar program of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. He also received a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.