David B. Owens

Assistant Professor of Law and Partner

University of Washington School of Law and Loevy & Loevy

David B. Owens is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington and directs the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic (CRJC). The CRJC represents plaintiffs in civil rights lawsuits in federal courts in Illinois, Washington, California, Hawaii, Ohio, and beyond. David is also a partner at Loevy & Loevy, a national civil rights firm originally based in Chicago. As a litigator, David has litigated dozens of civil rights suits in state and federal courts throughout the country. These suits most frequently involve constitutional violations that have caused wrongful convictions, claims of police violence and excessive force, race discrimination, and some First Amendment issues. David taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Lecturer in Law with the Exoneration Project, a post-conviction innocence clinic between 2012 and 2017. David also taught at Stanford Law School as an adjunct lecturer in the Spring of 2021.

Before begining practice at Loevy and the Exoneration Project in 2012, David clerked for Diane P. Wood of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and Myron H. Thompson for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery.