Biography

Professor David Mills teaches classes in Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime at Stanford Law School. Mills founded and served as the first director of the school's renowned Clinical Education program that prepares students for the real-world challenges and responsibilities of a legal career. Prior to joining the the faculty of Stanford Law School in 2000, Mills was a lecturer at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the Santa Clara University School of Law. Mills serves on a number of non-profit boards and is co-chair of the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. A lifelong advocate for social justice, Professor Mills has combined a career in the law with an extensive business career and his charitable endeavors. He is the author of numerous articles most recently focusing on white collar crime.

In the News

• George Soros Gives $500,000 To Effort To Narrow Three-Strikes Law
  Los Angeles Times PolitiCal, February 13, 2012

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