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Danton Berube

  • Danton BerubeB.A. University of Tennessee '88
  • J.D. Vanderbilt University School of Law '91
  • M.A. Yale University '02
  • M.Phil. Yale University '04

Assistant Professor Danton Berube received a B.A. degree with honors from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt Law School.

After graduation, Professor Berube served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Emmett R. Cox of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.  He then joined the litigation department of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York, and his areas of practice included securities regulation, employment discrimination, and accountants’ liability.  He subsequently moved to Memphis and began working at Bateman Gibson & Childers, where he specialized in tort defense litigation for several major railroads and other Fortune 500 clients.  Four years later he was made a partner in the firm.

Seeking a career in higher education, Professor Berube enrolled in the Graduate School at Yale University to earn a Ph.D. in Political Science.  While there he was named a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School and worked closely with Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayers in the area of campaign finance reform.  Professor Berube is now completing his dissertation “Measuring the Effect of Judicial Discretion in the Criminal Context: The Relationship between Sentencing and Recidivism”.

Professor Berube joined the faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 2006.  He teaches Applied Legal Theory & Analysis in the legal writing program.  He is also designing a newly required first-year course entitled “Core Concepts”, which he will teach beginning spring 2008.  He is actively engaged on the Law Review and Curriculum committees and chairs the Dean’s Honor Society.

Recent Publications

  • “A Model Campaign Finance Statute” in Bruce Ackerman & Ian Ayers, Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance (Yale University Press 2002)
  • Robert M. Hayden’s Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts, 25 YALE J. INT’L L. 560 (2000) (book review)
  • Third Party Recipients of PACA Trust Assets: Are They Strictly Liable or Bona Fide Purchasers?, 45 ARK. L. REV. 377 (1992);
  • Drug Proceeds Forfeiture and the Right to Counsel of Choice, 43 VAND. L. REV. 1377 (1990). 
  • Professor Berube has also written multiple entries for the Encyclopedia of American Law and Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties.