David S. Tanenhaus
Biography
David S. Tanenhaus is an internationally recognized authority on the history and practice of juvenile justice.
He is a professor in the UNLV history department and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law. From 2004 to 2012, Tanenhaus served as editor of .
Since coming to UNLV in 1997, he has taught courses on American legal and constitutional history, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, children and society, juvenile law, and introductory surveys of U.S. History. He also teaches a course on the history and theory of jurisprudence for the Judicial Studies program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
He has written extensively about legal and constitutional history. His books include (Oxford University Press, 2004) and (University Press of Kansas, 2011). He has co-edited many books including (University of Chicago, 2002) with Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, and Bernardine Dohrn; and (NYU Press, 2014) with Franklin E. Zimring. He also served as the editor-in-chief of (MacMillan Reference USA, 2008).
A passionate believer in connecting universities to communities, he has served as a Trustee of Nevada Humanities, participated in teacher institutes sponsored by the Center for Civic Education and the American Institute for History Education, and helped found and coordinate both the Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History at the Boyd School of Law and the UNLV Constitution Day Public Lectureship.
Education
- Ph.D., American history, University of Chicago
- MA, History, University of Chicago
- BA, Grinnell College
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