David Bowker

David W. Bowker serves as Managing Partner of the firm's Washington Office and Chair of the firm’s International Litigation practice. He has a wealth of commercial litigation and arbitration experience, representing US and foreign companies, multi-nationals, foreign states, international organizations, and nonprofit organizations before international arbitration tribunals, state and federal trial courts, courts of appeal, and the US Supreme Court. He is also an active member of the firm’s International Arbitration Group; Trial Group; and Government and Regulatory Litigation Group. Mr. Bowker has litigated high-stakes cases in US federal and state courts for nearly 20 years. In Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., 570 U.S. 205, Mr. Bowker argued and won a landmark First Amendment decision in the US Supreme Court on behalf of dozens of public health organizations in the successful challenge of an unconstitutional “pledge” requirement that the US government sought to impose as a condition of federal funding to fight HIV/AIDS overseas. Mr. Bowker teaches international law and dispute resolution as an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and previously taught as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School. He serves on the US Department of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Society of International Law, the American Bar Association, and the International Bar Association. He is a board member of the non-profit Hostage US. Before joining the firm, Mr. Bowker served as the Attorney-Adviser for the Law of Armed Conflict in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State. Prior to that, he served on the National Security Council staff.