David Ray Papke

David Ray Papke is a professor of law, law in American culture and legal history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Papke worked earlier as dean of Yale University’s Davenport College. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois and Indiana University-Bloomington. In 1986-87, he was a Fulbright professor at Tamkang University, Taipei, and he has lectured in Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, St. Kitts, Uganda and Vietnam. He is the author of “Framing the Criminal: Crime, Cultural Work, and the Loss of Critical Perspective” (1987), “Narrative and the Legal Discourse: Storytelling and the Law” (1991), “Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation’s Legal Faith” (1998), “The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America” (1999), “Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions” (2007; 2nd Edition, 2012), and “Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives” (2014). His most recent book is “Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor” (2019).