Robin D. Barnes
Visiting Professor of Law
Robin D. Barnes is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches several courses in advanced constitutional law. Professor Barnes graduated with honors from the University of Buffalo faculty of law and jurisprudence in the top 10 percent of her class. She received an LL.M. in constitutional theory from the University of Wisconsin, where she began her career as a William H. Hastie Fellow in the 1990s. Her most widely cited publications appear in the Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law reviews. Her work has been cited, criticized and praised in over 250 legal journals. Barnes's 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 the role of lawyers in emerging constitutional debates. Her forthcoming book Outrageous Invasions, Defamation, Privacy and Celebrity Citizens, focuses upon the evolution of press rights, the legal and social consequences of characterizing celebrities as public figures, and how “entertainment news” deflects attention away from rights of privacy, and broader issues of democratic order in the United States 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.
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