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Faculty ProfileKatherine Barnes
Academic Title: Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Economics (courtesy); Director of the Rogers Program on Law and Society Criminal Procedure (Law 602)
Evidence (Law 608)
Litigating with Experts (Law 611C)
Racial Profiling (Law 696Q)
Public Employment Law (611D)
Bayesian Statistical Theory and Methods (Econ 574B/Stat 574B)
Law, Statistics, and Economics (Econ 439)
Curriculum Vitae SSRN Published Papers |
Education |
University of Minnesota, School of Statistics, Ph.D. (2003) | University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (2000) Executive Editor, Journal of Law Reform; Clarence Darrow Scholar | University of Minnesota, M.S. (1999) | Swarthmore College, B.A. (1993) |
Personal Work Experience |
Professor of Law and Director of the Rogers Program on Law and Society (previously Associate Professor), James E. Rogers College of Law, 2007 - present | Professor of Economics (courtesy appointment) (previously Associate Professor), Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, 2007 - present | Visiting Associate Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Spring 2007 | Assistant and Associate Professor, Washington University Law School, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2003 - 2007 | Law Clerk, Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York, New York, 2002 - 2003 | Law Clerk, Honorable Vaughn R. Walker, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, California, 2001 - 2002 |
Representative Publications |
| Is It Fair? Law Professors Perceptions of Tenure, 61 J. Legal Educ. 511 (2012) (co-author, with Elizabeth Mertz). |
| Rulemaking in the Shade: An Empirical Study of EPAs Air Toxic Emission Standards, 63 Admin. L. Rev. 99 (2011) (co-author, with Wendy Wagner & Lisa Peters). |
| Place Matters (Most): An Empirical Study of Prosecutorial Decision Making in Death-Eligible Cases, 51 Ariz. L. Rev. 305 (2009). |
| Against Judgment (reviewing Bernard E. Harcourt, Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2007)), 93 Cornell L. Rev. 689 (2008). |
| Is Affirmative Action Responsible for the Achievement Gap Between Black and White Law Students?, 101 Northwestern L. Rev. 1759 (2007). |
| Assessing the Counterfactual: The Efficacy of Drug Interdiction Absent Racial Profiling, 54 Duke L. J. 1089 (2005). |
| Complete List of Publications |
Presentations |
| Speaker, Measuring Racial Profiling (Univ. Va., Jan. 2011). |
| Speaker, Measuring Severity (Am. Society Criminology Annual Conf., Nov. 2010). |
| Speaker, Presidential Politics meets Regulatory Complexity: An Empirical Study of EPA's Hazardous Air Pollutant Rules under Clinton and Bush II (Am. Law & Economics Assn. Mtg., May 2010). |
| Speaker, "Industry Dominance" in Publicly Important Rulemakings: An Empirical Study of EPA's Hazardous Air Pollutant Rules (Conf. Empirical Legal Studies, Nov. 2009). |
| Complete List of Presentations |
Organizations |
Society for Empirical Legal Studies |
| American Bar Association |
| American Association of Law Schools |
| American Mathematical Association |
| American Statistical Association |
| Law & Society Association |
Updated: 09/29/2011

Evidence (Law 608)