Biography

As former senior tax partner and current managing partner for Harbourton Enterprises, a private investment firm, David W. Mills has extensive experience in investment and finance, including the defense of those charged with business crimes. Though Professor Mills has taught several tax courses at Stanford Law School, he now focuses exclusively on teaching first-year Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime. He is the author of numerous articles on white collar crime. An advocate of social justice, he founded and was the first director of clinical education at Stanford Law School. He serves on a number of not for profit boards and is co-chair of the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2000, he was a senior tax partner in the northeastern law firm of Lowenstein, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan and a lecturer at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• White Collar Crime

Publications & Cases

• David W. Mills and Robert Weisberg, "Corrupting the Harm Requirement in White Collar Crime, 60 Stanford Law Review 1371 (2008).
• David W. Mills. A Very Strange Indictment, WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 12, 2005, p. A16. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David W. Mills. The Case Against John Ashcroft, SLATE, October 27, 2004. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David Mills and Robert Weisberg, Flunking the Martha Test, The Wall Street Journal, p. A10 (January 16, 2004).
• Robert Weisberg and David Mills, Violence Silence: Why No One Really Cares About Prison Rape, MSN Slate, 4 pages, (October 1, 2003).

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Managing Partner, Harbourton Enterprises
• Chairman, American Bar Association Committee on Partnership Taxation
• Chairman, New Jersey Bar Association Section of Taxation