David Kairys is Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law. He is the first James E. Beasley Chair. Kairys is a civil rights lawyer. He authored Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer and With Liberty and Justice for Some. He is a gun control proponent. Kairys earned a B.S. from Cornell University, an LL.B. from Columbia Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He specializes in constitutional law and civil rights law. He was a founding partner and is of counsel to Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein, Messing & Rau. Among his awards are the Alliance for Justice honor list for 2008, the Association of American Law Schools 2007 Deborah Rhode Award for extraordinary contribution to public interest by a law professor, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania's Civil Liberties Award, the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia Pro Bono Award, the Freil-Scanlan Award, and the First James E. Beasley Chair. 

April 16th, 1943 in (Age 81)