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Robin D. Barnes

Robin D. Barnes teaches various courses in Advanced Constitutional Law and coordinates the public legal education program featuring curriculums designed by Street Law Incorporated. 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 forthcoming book Outrageous Invasions, Defamation, Privacy and Celebrity Citizens, 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. Barnes is a member of the International Association of Law Schools, European Society of International Law, Law & Society, and Association Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel. Barnes is a national and international speaker on issues related to democracy, free speech, privacy and human rights.

Recent Courses

• Race in American Law (Fall 2006)
• Street Law in the Community (Fall 2006)
• Const Law, Adv: Indiv Rights (Spring 2006)
• Freedom of Speech (Fall 2005)
• Street Law in the Community (Fall 2005)
• Trusts & Estates (Fall 2005)