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Stephen R. Barnett
Title: Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, Emeritus
Office: 308 Boalt Hall
Tel: 510-642-5049
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: sbarnett@law.berkeley.edu
Professor Barnett went to law school at Harvard, where he was Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. He served as law clerk in New York to the late Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked as an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Washington, D.C., before joining the Boalt faculty in 1967.
From 1977 to 1979, Barnett served in the U.S. Justice Department as a deputy solicitor general, briefing and arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris and Fribourg, Switzerland, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and the University of Sydney. He has lectured in many countries.
Barnett's current fields of research and writing include intellectual property law and the legal institutions of California, principally the California Supreme Court. He is a contributing writer on that court for California Lawyer magazine and other publiscations. Recent articles include "From Anastasoff to Hart to West's Federal Appendix: The Ground Shifts Under No-Citation Rules" in the Journal of Appellate Practice & Process (2002), "'Unpublished' Judicial Opinions in the United States: Law Or Not?" in the European Business Organization Law Review (2001), "'The Right to One's Own Image': Publicity and Privacy Rights in the United States and Spain" in the American Journal of Comparative Law (1999), "Un-Rocket Docket" in California Lawyer (May 2002), and "Dear Justice Moreno" in California Lawyer (January 2002).
Barnett's recent litigation activities have included a suit that compelled California's Commission on Judicial Performance to disclose the way its individual members vote (Recorder v. Commission on Judicial Performance (1999); a suit that the California State Bar settled in 2001 by agreeing to let candidates in its board-of-governors elections make policy statements on the ballot; and an unsuccessful petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the "Three Stooges" right-of-publicity case, Saderup v. Comedy III Productions (2001).
Barnett's other activities include, since 2000, supervising the Law Department of the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia.
Education:
A.B, Harvard UniversityLL.B., Harvard University
