David G. Carlson
David Gray Carlson is an American scholar of law and of Hegelian philosophy. He is a professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City, where he teaches in the areas of admiralty, bankruptcy, commercial law, and property.
Life and works
Carlson was born in 1952 to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Carlson of Irvine, California. He received his B.A. from the University of [California, Santa Barbara] in 1974 and his Juris Doctor in 1977 from University of [California College of the Law, San Francisco]. He married to Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder in 1980. Carlson and Schroeder were associates with the New York law firm of Cravath, [Swaine & Moore], where he served from 1977 to 1981 before joining Cardozo.He has been the winner of American Bankruptcy Institute's "ABI Law Review Writing Prize" for the article "The Role of Valuation in Federal Bankruptcy Exemption Process" in 2011.