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Mario Barnes
Faculty
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Joint appointment in Law & Criminology, Law & Society
Faculty Affiliate, Center in Law, Society & Culture
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Joint appointment in Law & Criminology, Law & Society
Faculty Affiliate, Center in Law, Society & Culture
Professor Barnes writes and teaches in the areas of criminal law, constitutional law, national security law, and race and the law.
Expertise: Constitutional law, criminal law, discrimination law, national security
Current Courses: Statutory Analysis
Prior Courses Taught: Evidence, Statutory Analysis,Substantive Criminal Law, National Security Law Seminar, Identity, Crime & Justice, Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization, Critical Identity Theory, Constitutional Analysis I, Statutory Analysis, Critical Identity Theory & Law Identifying Reading Group, National Security Law, Constitutional Analysis II
Recent Publications
- The Story of U.S. v. Rahman: Religious Advocacy at the Intersection of Crime and Free Speech, in CRIMINAL LAW STORIES (D. Coker and R. Weisberg, eds. forthcoming 2012)
- The Obama Effect: Specialized Meaning in Anti-Discrimination Law, 87 IND. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2012) (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig).
- Racial Paradox in a Law and Society Odyssey, 44 LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 469 (2010)
- A Post-Racial Equal Protection?, 98 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 967 (2010) (with Trina Jones and Erwin Chemerinsky)
- Daily Journal column: "America Is Not Yet Post-Racial" (PDF) with Trina Jones
- The Disparate Treatment of Race and Class in Constitutional Jurisprudence, with Erwin Chemerinsky
- Prof. Barnes' Scholarly Papers on SSRN
Recent Honors
- November 2012: Prof. Mario Barnes named Treasurer of The Law and Society Association for 2013
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> Recent & Upcoming Events
- April 26-27, 2013: Participant, Roundtable discussion of Race and the Law casebook, Stanford Law School
- April 6, 2013: Speaker, "Looking to the Bottom" panel, UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal Symposium, Only We Can Free Ourselves: Reflections on the Work of Prof. Mari Matsuda, UCLA Law School
- Feb. 21, 2013: Featured Speaker, "The Meaning of Obama for Antidiscrimination Law," Critical Race Theory Colloquium, University of Colorado Law School
- April 20, 2012: Speaker, Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Symposium
- March 17, 2012: Breaking In: How to Become a Law Professor or Work in Legal Education, panelist on "Hiring Law Professors: Perspectives from Law School Deans and Hiring Chairs," Chapman University School of Law
- February 16-17, 2012: Seattle University Law Review Symposium – Race and the Criminal Justice System, Panel Presenter: Analyzing Stops, Citations, and Searches in Washington and Beyond (with Prof. Robert Chang)
- February 14, 2012: PERSPECTIVES Law Student Reading Group
- January 18, 2012: Moderator of 9/11: Civil Liberties and Legal Implications featuring a panel of scholars, including Dean Chemerinsky
- March 17, 2011: PERSPECTIVES Law Student Reading Group
- Oct. 15, 2010: Connecticut Law Review Symposium, Panel Presenter: The Once and Future Equal Protection Clause? (paper co-authored with Dean Chemerinsky)
- Oct. 9, 2010: LATCRIT XV, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Panel Presenter: The Disparate Treatment of Race and Class in Constitutional Jurisprudence
- Oct. 4, 2010: Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS), University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Invited Speaker, Jurisprudence and Social Policy CSLS Speaker Series: Singlism: Do the Rights of Unmarried Workers Need Protection? (in-progress paper co-authored with Prof. Trina Jones)
- Sept. 12, 2010: Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall Law School, Panel Presenter: For the Sake of Appearances: Post-Race Employment Discrimination
- July 27, 2010: LATCRIT International and Comparative Law Colloquium, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Panel Presenter: A Comparative Look at Responses to Emergency and National Security Regimes
- March 26, 2010: "Post-racialism in American Law and Lawyering," The Georgetown Law Journal 2010 Symposium