Robin Barnes

Professor of Law

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Biography

Robin D. 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 forthcoming 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. 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.

Teaching Interests

  • Advanced Constitutional Law