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David Papke is a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. He previously served on the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis faculty for eighteen years and has held visiting positions at the University of Illinois and Indiana University-Bloomington. He was also Dean of Davenport College at Yale University and a Fulbright professor at Tamkang University in Taipei.
His research and teaching focus on Law and Popular Culture, Legal History, Family Law, Property, and Jurisprudence. He has a special interest in how law functions ideologically in American society, particularly in relation to the urban poor, racial hierarchy, and cultural representations in film and music.
His recent publications explore the criminalization of poverty, cinematic anti-legalism, transracial adoption, and the portrayal of legal institutions in media. These works reflect a consistent scholarly trend of analyzing law through cultural and critical lenses, emphasizing law's role in reinforcing social inequality.
- Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor (2019)
- Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions (2nd ed., 2012)
- Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation’s Legal Faith (1998)
- The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America (1999)
David Papke has advised students such as Elise Papke and has received research support enabling international lectures in countries including Uganda, Vietnam, and Australia. He has presented at numerous academic conferences globally, including the International Society for the Semiotics of Law and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
He is actively engaged in interdisciplinary legal scholarship and continues to contribute to debates on law, justice, and cultural representation.
