DAVID LEWIS LLEWELLYN, JR.

David Llewellyn is a legal advocate, civil rights lawyer and law professor now practicing in Sacramento, California. He has a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of California at Los Angeles, the diplome from the International Institute for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of Tennessee, a B.A. from William Jennings Bryan College and has done graduate study at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is a member of the faculty of the Chapman University School of Law, where he has taught Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and currently serves as a law professor and legal counsel with the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.  He was formerly Dean and Professor of Law at Trinity Law School, Trinity International University, teaching constitutional law, international human rights, jurisprudence and legal advocacy. Previous to that he was a founder, President and senior legal counsel for the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom, a public interest law firm.  He has presented papers and lectured in universities throughout the United States and in France, Switzerland, Indonesia and China (PRC). His work has been reported in various media, including such outlets as National Public Radio, C-SPAN, the New York Times, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Journal, Christianity Today, and Focus on the Family.  His publications include "Freedom of Religion or Belief under International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law," in Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Netherlands, 2004) and other legal papers. He has been featured on the cover of California Lawyer, the official magazine of the California State Bar Association as "God’s Lawyer."

 

David Llewellyn has engaged in public interest law and litigation for most of his career, including appellate advocacy involving appeals and amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court and other state and federal appellate courts.  He was counsel for the California Family Bioethics Council in the litigation challenging Proposition 71, embryonic stem cell research funding in California.

His law firm is Llewellyn † Spann, Attorneys at Law, 5530 Birdcage Street, Suite 210, Citrus Heights, California 95610; 916.966-9036; DLlewellyn@LS4law.com.