David researches, teaches and practises in litigious private and public law. He is the Foundation Director of the Litigation Law Unit (LLU) and formerly the Director of the Advocacy and Justice Unit (AJU) of the University of Adelaide. He has presented and published in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States, on litigation systems, evidence and procedure reforms, and international trade. He has given expert evidence in Australian legal proceedings on foreign and international law, and is the convening author of South Australian Criminal Law: Review and Critique(Butterworths, 2014) and a co-convening author and editor of Essays in Advocacy (Barr Smith Press, 2012).
David lectures in the laws of evidence, crime, trial and appellate procedure, ethics and advocacy. He supervises PhD and Masters by Research candidates and undergraduate research dissertations. He co-convenes specialist courses on Australian Federal expert evidence and trial advocacy for the international evidence and forensic science program of the China University of Political Science and Law. He is a Consultant with the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, a Reference Group Member of the South Australian Law Reform Institute and an Academic Course Advisor in the Adelaide Law School.
David is Special Counsel to Fisher Jeffries | Gadens. He has conducted matters in the Magistrates, District, Supreme and Full Supreme Courts of South Australia. He is the President-Elect of the Law Society of South Australia, a Director of the Law Council of Australia, the Foundation Chair of the Reconciliation Action Committee and the Chair of the Limited Liability Scheme Committee of the Law Society of South Australia. His service on interdisciplinary bodies includes as Associate Executive Director of the International Association of Evidence Science and an Executive Member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry and Law.