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Professor Barron holds one of the prestigious endowed professorships at The George Washington University as the ''Harold H. Greene Professor of Law''. This professorship was established in 2000. Professor Barron has also held the endowed professorship of ''Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law''.<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~newsctr/newscenter/guide/3_schools/endowed.html GWU Endowed Professorships]</ref> |
Professor Barron holds one of the prestigious endowed professorships at [[The George Washington University]] as the ''Harold H. Greene Professor of Law''. This professorship was established in 2000. Professor Barron has also held the endowed professorship of ''Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law''.<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~newsctr/newscenter/guide/3_schools/endowed.html GWU Endowed Professorships]</ref> |
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Revision as of 20:44, 16 April 2007
Jerome A. Barron is the Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and a former dean of the law school.
Career at The George Washington Law School
Professor Barron joined the faculty in 1965.
He served as dean of the Law School from 1979 to 1988.
Professor Barron holds one of the prestigious endowed professorships at The George Washington University as the Harold H. Greene Professor of Law. This professorship was established in 2000. Professor Barron has also held the endowed professorship of Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law.[1]
Profess Professor Barron teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and communications law and on First Amendment issues.
Notable Accomplishments
- Argued and participated in First Amendment cases in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Served as a consultant to the Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate)
- Chair of the ABA Committee on Graduate Legal Education
- Chair, Mass Communication Law, AALS
- Chair, Graduate Legal Education Committee, ABA
- In 2004, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in Italy.
- Author of dozens of Law Review articles, chapters in books, and book reviews.
Cases argued
- Jerome A. Barron argued the cause for appellee in Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974)[2]
Family
Professor Barron's son, David Barron, is a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. [3]
Education
- B.A., Tufts University
- J.D., Yale University
- LL.M., George Washington University
Books Written
- Freedom of the Press for Whom? (1973)
- Constitutional Law: Principles and Policy (6th ed. 2002) (with Dienes, McCormack, and Redish)
- Mass Communication Law (6th ed. 1998) (with Gillmor and Simon)
- Constitutional Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2003) (with Dienes)
- Constitutional Law, Black Letter Series (7th ed. 2005)
In The News
- Professor Barron was mentioned in a 1974 Time Magazine article. [4]