David I. Thomson
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
David I.C. Thomson, Esq., is Professor of Practice and the John C. Dwan Professor for Online Learning at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, where he has taught for 20 years. Professor Thomson has written and presented extensively on the intersections of technology, assessment, and legal education. Since 2008, David has served on the University of Denver’s Distance Learning Council and was a member of the Strategic Issues Panel on the Future of Higher Education in 2015. He is the author of Law School 2.0: Legal Education for a Digital Age (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2009), and is the Series Editor of the Skills & Values hybrid law school textbooks published by Carolina Academic Press. He has published two textbooks in that Series, Skills & Values: Discovery Practice (3rd Ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017) and Skills & Values: Lawyering Process (2nd Ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017). David is also sought out internationally as an expert on law teaching. In the fall of 2008, he was the keynote speaker for two days at a conference at Peking University Law School for Deans and Associate Deans of law schools in China. More recently, he worked with law professors at Moscow State University on teaching and assessment, having visited with them in Russia several times since 2014, and having hosted them in Denver in March of 2015 and September of 2016. In addition, he led a workshop for Moscow-based law professors on Law School Assessment Methods in October of 2017. He has also worked with two professors at Université du Québec à Montréal on a book about Digital Transformations across business sectors, having presented at a conference on the same subject in Montreal in October of 2014. In recent years he has given invited presentations at international legal education conferences in Tokyo, Japan, Prague, Czech Republic, and Moscow, Russia. David was the recipient of the University of Denver’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. His thoughts about the future of the educational enterprise can be found on TheChalkboard.Life and Twitter @dicthomson.
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