Benjamin Barton
Benjamin H. Barton is the Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. An expert in Supreme Court Justice backgrounds and access to justice issues, Barton has won the student-selected Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award and has been named the outstanding faculty advisor for UT Pro Bono three times.
He also won the 2010 LSAC Philip D. Shelton Award for outstanding research in legal education. In 2014-15 he received a Fulbright Award to teach comparative law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Barton graduated with honors from Haverford College in 1991 and received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996.
Benjamin Barton
Sep 20, 2011
First, thanks to TOTM for organizing this symposium on a most timely and important topic. As computers and technology have revolutionized every aspect of human endeavor it is a particularly critical time to ask ourselves why 21st century law schools closely resemble the law schools of the late-19th century and why in court litigation would ... Benjamin Barton on The Lawyer-Judge Bias
