David A. Martin papers, 1973/2015

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Extent:
42 Cubic Feet 96 archival boxes
Creator:
Martin, David A., 1948-
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The David A. Martin papers include professional and academic material on international law and immigration. The collections includes material from his work as an attorney in immigration and refugee matters, conference material, speeches, testimony; and material from his work as a professor including lecture notes, research, and administrative files.

Biographical / historical:

David A. Martin, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, was born in 1948. He received his BA from DePauw University in 1970 and his JD from Yale University in 1975. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright, at the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1975-1976, and the next year for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. at the US Supreme Court. From 1977-1978 he worked as an associate with Rogovin, Stern & Huge in the District of Columbia. He left the firm to become Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Department of State, a position he held from 1978-1980. Later in 1980, he came to the University of Virginia Law School as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1985.

In 1984-1985, he was a German Marshall Fund and Ford Foundation Research Fellow in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, Martin took a leave of absence from the Law School to work as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC, until December 1997 when he returned to Charlottesville. Martin teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, and International Law.

Acquisition information:
David A. Martin gifted these papers to the Law Library in 1998, 2001, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Kent Olsen also provided some files in 2017.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard