Outrageous Invasions
Professor Robin Barnes' latest book, Outrageous Invasions, Celebrities' Private Lives, Media and the Law, is the subject of a feature story on UConn Today.
Professor Barnes teaches various courses in Advanced Constitutional Law. Professor Barnes graduated from the University of Buffalo Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence in the top 10% of her class. She received an LL.M. in Constitutional Theory from the University Of Wisconsin School Of Law, where she began her career as a William H. Hastie Fellow in the 1990s. Her most widely cited publications appear in the Yale, Columbia and Harvard Law Reviews. Her work has been cited and praised in over 250 legal journals. Barnes' casebook, The Nature and Scope of Individual Rights: Emerging Debates in Constitutional Law (2007), focuses upon individual rights in the areas of substantive due process, information privacy and political freedom. Her latest book Outrageous Invasions, Celebrities' Private Lives, Media and the Law, focuses upon the evolution of speech rights of public figures and how they both deflect and promote broader changes in the democratic order in the US and European Union.
Recent Homepage Highlights
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Professor Jessica Rubin will be teaching US law and legal writing for the Open Society Foundation at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Rubin teaches legal research and writing in the Lawyering Process program at the Law School.
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On June 18, Professor Sara Bronin will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association on "Legal Tools to Address Climate Change" at a panel discussion entitle "Following the Path of the Storm: Legal and Legislative Challenges in Addressing Rising Sea Levels on the Connecticut Coastline."
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On June 18, Professor Mark W. Janis will lecture on "Freedom of Religion and European Human Rights Law" at the University of Oxford, England.
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On June 17, Professor Alexandra Lahav will speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) where she will comment on the proposed changes to the Federal rules of civil procedure.
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On June 17, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the twenty-third annual Summer Tax Institute at University of California - Davis.
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