{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1943)}} '''David Kairys''' (born April 16, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.martindale.com/Search_Tools/Law_Schools/schl0831.aspx |title=Temple University Beasley School of Law |publisher=Martindale.com |accessdate=August 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616193800/http://www.martindale.com/Search_Tools/Law_Schools/schl0831.aspx |archive-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> is Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law.<ref name="philly1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100220_Spying_on_L__Merion_students_sparks_probes_by_FBI__Montco_detectives.html|title=Spying on L. Merion students sparks probes by FBI, Montco detectives|date=20 February 2010 }}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost1">{{Cite news |title=Title of the Article |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062904052_2.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=29 June 2010 |access-date=10 September 2025}} {{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}} {{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He is the first James E. Beasley Chair (2001–07).

Kairys is a civil rights lawyer. He authored ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KgFSpn0O5gUC&q=david+Kairys Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer]'' and ''[https://archive.org/details/withlib_kai_1993_00_9723 <!-- quote=david Kairys. --> With Liberty and Justice for Some]''. He is a gun control proponent.<ref name="washingtonpost1"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Weekend Edition |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=92008363 |title=NRA Eyes More Targets After D.C. Gun-Ban Win |publisher=NPR |date=June 29, 2008 |accessdate=August 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=James Dao |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/us/under-legal-siege-gun-maker-agrees-to-accept-curbs.html?scp=983&sq=By%20JAMES%20DAO&st=nyt&pagewanted=2 |title=Under Legal Siege, Gun Maker Agrees To Accept Curbs |work=The New York Times |date=March 18, 2000 |accessdate=August 22, 2010}}</ref> He is also a strong advocate for removing money corruption from politics.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Kairys |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/01/the-misguided-theories-behind-citizens-united-v-fec.html |title=Money Isn't Speech and Corporations Aren't People |work=slate.com |date=January 22, 2010}}</ref>

Kairys earned a B.S. from Cornell University (1965), an LL.B. from Columbia Law School (1968), and an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1971).<ref>[http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/gwlr52&section=18 "Law and Politics"], David Kairys, 52 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 243 (1983-84)</ref> He specializes in constitutional law and civil rights law.<ref name="philly1"/> He was a founding partner and is of counsel to Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein, Messing & Rau.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/politic_xxx_1998_00_4923 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/politic_xxx_1998_00_4923/page/721 721] |quote=david Kairys Rudovsky. |title=The politics of law: a progressive critique|publisher=Basic Books| isbn=978-0-465-05959-1 |year=1998 |accessdate=August 22, 2010}}</ref>

Among his awards are the Alliance for Justice honor list for 2008, the Association of American Law Schools 2007 Deborah Rhode Award for extraordinary contribution to public interest by a law professor, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania's Civil Liberties Award, the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia Pro Bono Award, the Freil-Scanlan Award (best Temple law faculty scholarship), and the First James E. Beasley Chair (Temple Law School).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.law.temple.edu/pdfs/Faculty/Resume/KairysResume.pdf |title=Kairys resume |access-date=2010-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626021232/http://www.law.temple.edu/pdfs/Faculty/Resume/KairysResume.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.law.temple.edu/servlet/com.rnci.products.DataModules.RetrievePage?site=TempleLaw&page=N_Faculty_Kairys_Main Temple Law bio] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100626021232/http://www.law.temple.edu/pdfs/Faculty/Resume/KairysResume.pdf Resume] *{{IMDb name}}

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