Jerome A. Barron
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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.
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 - 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.
Professor Barron teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and communications law and on First Amendment issues.
On October 12, 2007, a symposium was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Professor Jerome Barron’s seminal article in the Harvard Law Review
calling for an affirmative First Amendment
right to access the press. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was one of the speakers at the event.
. He also was acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Obama Administration.
Harold H. Greene
Harold Herman Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia...
Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and a former dean of the law school.
Career at The George Washington University 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 - 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.
Professor Barron teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and communications law and on First Amendment issues.
On October 12, 2007, a symposium was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Professor Jerome Barron’s seminal article in the Harvard Law Review
Harvard Law Review
The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.-Overview:According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, the Review is the most cited law review and has the second-highest impact factor in the category "law" after the...
calling for an affirmative First Amendment
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...
right to access the press. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer was one of the speakers at the event.
Notable Accomplishments
- Argued and participated in First Amendment cases in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Served as a consultant to the Senate-convened Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (WatergateWatergate scandalThe Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...
) - 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. TornilloMiami Herald Publishing Co. v. TornilloMiami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 , was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned a Florida state law requiring newspapers to allow equal space in their newspapers to political candidates in the case of a political editorial or endorsement content...
, 418 U.S. 241 (1974).
Family
Professor Barron's son, David Barron, is a professor of law at the Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
. He also was acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Obama Administration.
Books Written
- Freedom of the Press for Whom? (1973)
- Constitutional Law: Principles and Policy (6th ed. 2002) (with Dienes, McCormack, and Redish)
- Constitutional Law: Principles and Policy (7th ed. 2006) (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)