David Schimmel

David Schimmel (J.D., Yale University) is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is author or coauthor of over 75 articles and 7 books about law and education, including Principals Teaching the Law: 10 Legal Lessons Your Teachers Must Know (2010) and Teachers and the Law, 9th Edition (2015). He is the recipient of the Education Press Association of America’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism, the Education Law Association’s McGhehey (lifetime achievement) Award, and the University of Massachusetts’s Distinguished Academic Outreach Award. His current teaching, research, and writing focuses on promoting legal literacy for teachers.