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David K. Linnan is an Associate Professor of Law at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law, University of South Carolina, holding tenure since 1993. He is also affiliated with the University of South Carolina School of the Environment and multiple international institutions including the University of Melbourne’s Asian Law Centre and Gadjah Mada University’s International Undergraduate Program. His expertise spans Asian Law, Legal Development, and International Economic Law.
Education includes a J.D. from the University of Chicago (1979) and a B.A. from Emory University (1976). He has conducted extensive research across Indonesia, Australia, and Germany, including a Fulbright fellowship in Jakarta and research at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. His teaching focuses on comparative law, international environmental law, and financial sector regulation.
Research interests include legal legitimacy, interfaith relations, and instructional technology integration in legal education. He has pioneered international collaborative courses using videoconferencing, linking students across USC, Indonesian universities, and Australian institutions. Major grants include a $1.2M USAID award (2000–2004) for the Law and Finance Institutional Partnership (LFIP) in Jakarta.
Linnan has held visiting professorships at Gadjah Mada University (2015) and University of Washington (2004). His recent work emphasizes Southeast Asian legal infrastructure, judicial recruitment analysis, and transnational economic frameworks like ASEAN Economic Community and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
