Associate Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1475
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: david.horton@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, cum laude, Carleton College
JD, Order of the Coif, UCLA School of Law
David Horton joined the Loyola faculty in 2009. He graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA Law School in 2004, where he served as Chief Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review. He then practiced at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster and clerked for the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Lecturer in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law. His scholarly interests include contract procedure and wills and trusts. His recent work is available at http://ssrn.com/author=1058639.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member, California Bar, Trusts and Estates Section
The Federal Arbitration Act and Testamentary Instruments, 90 N.C. L.Rev. -- (forthcoming 2012).
Unconscionability Wars, 106 Nw. U.L. Rev. Colloquy 13 (2011).
Arbitration as Delegation, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 437 (2011).
The Mandatory Core of Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act, 96 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 1 (2010).
The Shadow Terms: Contract Procedure and Unilateral Amendments, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 605 (2010).
Unconscionability in the Law of Trusts, 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1675 (2009).
Flipping the Script: Contra Proferentem and Standard Form Contracts, 80 U. Colo. L. Rev. 431 (2009).
The Uneasy Case for California’s Care Custodian Statute, 12 Chap. U. L. Rev. 47 (2008) (solicited submission).
Extreme Sports and Assumption of Risk: A Blueprint, 38 U.S.F. L. Rev. 599 (2004).
Comment, Rethinking Assumption of Risk and Sports Spectators, 51 UCLA L. Rev. 339 (2003).Contracts; Contracts of Adhesion Seminar; Trusts and Estates