David Seipp

David John Seipp (born October 19, 1955) is an American legal scholar. He is the Law Alumni Scholar Professor of Law at Boston University, where he has taught since 1986. Seipp previously served as director of the American Society for Legal History and the Ames Foundation.

Early life and education
Seipp was born on October 19, 1955, in Dubuque, Iowa. Seipp is the son of Norbert H. Seipp, a native of Dubuque. He entered Harvard College in 1973, graduating in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in history, summa cum laude, with membership in Phi Beta Kappa as a Presidential Scholar. In 1979, he received a second B.A. from Merton College, Oxford, in jurisprudence, then a Bachelor of Laws from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1980. He returned to the United States in 1980 to attend Harvard Law School, where he entered with advanced standing as a second-year student. He graduated magna cum laude in 1982 and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Career
From 1982 to 1983, Seipp was a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was in private practice afterward at Foley Hoag as an associate attorney, practicing appellate litigation, contracts, accounting, and administrative law. He left in 1986 to become a professor at the Boston University School of Law.

Seipp is a life member of the American Law Institute.

Personal life
Seipp married Carol Frances Lee, general counsel of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, on September 10, 1994. Judge Patricia Wald officiated the marriage.