Biography

As former senior tax partner and current managing partner for Harbourton Enterprises, a private investment firm, David Mills has extensive experience in investment and finance, including the defense of those charged with business crimes. Though Professor Mills has taught a variety of tax courses at Stanford Law School, he now focuses exclusively on teaching first-year Criminal Law as well as White-Collar Crime. He is the author of numerous articles in the white collar arena. A passionate advocate of social justice, he founded and was the first Director of Clinical Education at Stanford Law School. He serves on a number of not for profit boards and is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2000, he was a senior tax partner in the northeastern law firm of Lowenstein, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, and a lecturer at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• White Collar Crime

Programs

• Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC), Senior Lecturer in Law

Publications & Cases

• David W. Mills and Robert Weisberg, "Corrupting the Harm Requirement in White Collar Crime, 60 Stanford Law Review 1371 (2008).
• David W. Mills. A Very Strange Indictment, WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 12, 2005, p. A16. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David W. Mills. The Case Against John Ashcroft, SLATE, October 27, 2004. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David Mills and Robert Weisberg, Flunking the Martha Test, The Wall Street Journal, p. A10 (January 16, 2004).
• Robert Weisberg and David Mills, Violence Silence: Why No One Really Cares About Prison Rape, MSN Slate, 4 pages, (October 1, 2003).

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Managing Partner, Harbourton Enterprises
• Chairman, American Bar Association Committee on Partnership Taxation
• Chairman, New Jersey Bar Association Section of Taxation