David Waddilove

Professor D.P. Waddilove is a legal historian of early-modern England with special interest in equity and the Court of Chancery. His research considers the development of the law of property and finance in relation to social and economic realities in history. Before joining the faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2019, he was a fellow of St. Catharine’s College Cambridge, and a fellow in private law at Harvard Law School. He also clerked for the Hon. Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and practiced commercial litigation.

Waddilove earned his Ph.D. in English legal history from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, an M.A.R. with concentration in Theology from Yale University, and B.A. and M.A. in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Education

• JD University of Michigan
• MAR Yale University
• MA University of Cambridge

Companies

• Associate Professor of Law Notre Dame Law School (2019)
• Fellow of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law Harvard Law School (2017 — 2019)
• Newton Trust Research Fellow St Catharine's College, Cambridge (2014 — 2017)
• Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law University of Cambridge (2014 — 2017)
• Visiting Scholar University of Michigan Law School (2013 — 2014)
• PhD Student University of Cambridge (2010 — 2014)
• Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law University of Cambridge (2011 — 2013)
• Associate Attorney Stinson Morrison Hecker (2008 — 2010)
• Law Clerk to the Hon. Morris S. Arnold United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2007 — 2008)