David Noll is the associate dean for faculty research and development and a professor of law at Rutgers University. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, the New York Law Journal, and many others. He clerked for Judges Pierre N. Leval and Raymond J. Lohier Jr. on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Richard J. Holwell on the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.