David A. Logan became Dean of Roger Williams School of Law in 2003, after two decades on the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Law, where he won awards for his teaching of Torts, Media Law, and Professional Responsibility. At the end of his deanship in 2014, he was one of the nation's longest-serving deans. He has also been a visiting professor at UNC, UT-Austin, Florida State, and the University of Arizona law schools.

A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Logan clerked for a federal judge and practiced with a major Washington, D.C., law firm, representing Native American tribes. He served as co-counsel in Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman, 455 U.S. 363 (1982), a major Supreme Court decision interpreting the Fair Housing Act.

Professor Logan's publications, primarily focusing on the intersection of tort law and the First Amendment, have appeared in major journals, including the Michigan Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review. His most recent piece, “Rescuing our Democracy by Revisiting New York Times v. Sullivan,” published in the Ohio State Law Journal in late 2020, was cited sixteen times by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in his 2021 opinion in Berisha v. Lawson.

Professor Logan has served as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts, most recently on the ALI’s Defamation and Privacy Law Project; he has also served the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools in various leadership capacities. He has won awards for his “dedication and commitment to equal justice in the law” (Rhode Island Legal Services), his leadership in achieving diversity and inclusiveness in legal education (Rhode Island NAACP), and the Deborah L. Rhode Award for making “an outstanding contribution to increasing pro bono and public service opportunities in law school through scholarship, leadership, or service” (Association of American Law Schools).