G. KRISTEN BARNES, J.D., Ph.D.
University of Akron School of Law
C. Blake McDowell Law Center
150 University Avenue
Akron, Ohio 44325
(312) 636-8222 (cell)
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Duke University, Durham, NC
Ph.D., 2003
Concentration: Literature
Dissertation: Contemporary Cinematic Constructions of French and Francophone
African Immigrant Identities (1950 - the Present)
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
J.D., 1990
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
A.B. Political Science, 1987
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH
Associate Professor (2014 – present)
Assistant Professor (2010 – 2013)
Courses: Property Law, Real Estate Law, Land Use Law,
Comparative Constitutional Law, and Comparative Law
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Radio/TV/Film Department
Adjunct Professor (2009 – 2010)
Courses: French cinema, Postcolonial film, and African cinema
Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Department of Humanities, History and Social Sciences
Adjunct Professor (2009 – 2010)
Courses: Politics and Civil Rights
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois
Commercial Transactions Associate (2006 – 2008)
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Visiting Associate Professor of Law (2005 – 2006)
Courses taught: Immigration Law and Policy, Race and Law
Fox, Hefter, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, LLP, Chicago, IL
Corporate and Real Estate Transactions Associate (2002 – 2005)
Earl L. Neal & Associates, L.L.C., Chicago, IL
Associate (1999 – 2001 and summers 1995-1997)
SCOR (Société Commerçiale de Reassurance), Paris, France
In-House Reinsurance Legal Consultant (1998)
Duke University, Durham, NC
Instructor, Undergraduate Program in Literature, and Writing Program (1996-1997)
Courses: African Diaspora Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Writing and Rhetoric
Katten Muchin and Zavis, Chicago, IL
Litigation Associate (1992 – 1993)
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Brian Barnett Duff (1991 – 1992, Summer 1994)
ACADEMIC HONORS
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2002-2003)
Foreign Languages Area Studies Fellowship (1998-1999)
Duke International Dissertation Fellowship (1998-1999)
International Law and Institutions Fellowship (1998)
Duke University Canadian Studies Research Fellowship (1997)
Duke Teaching Fellowship (1996-1997)
Duke Endowment Fellowship (1996-1998)
PUBLICATIONS
Recognition and Reflection, _____ TEXAS A&M JOURNAL OF REAL PROPERTY LAW 301
(forthcoming Spring 2015)
“Pennies on the Dollar”: Reallocating Risk and Deficiency Judgment Liability,
66 S.C.L.REV. 243 (2014).
Riding into the Sunset in a “Post-Racial” World: Lessons in Equal Educational Opportunity and
College Admissions Schemes in France and the United States, 22.1 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L.
REV. 95 (2012)
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SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS
“Minorities, the Right to Education, and Indirect Discrimination”
Fourth Annual Global Conference
Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law
Florida State University College of Law
Tallahassee, Florida, April 16 – 17, 2015
“Reigning in Lenders and Building Stronger Consumers: Policy Recommendations
for Residential Mortgage Loans”
The Future of Housing – Equity, Stability and Sustainability
Symposium Presented by the Business and Transactional Law Center
in partnership with the Washburn Law Journal
Washburn University School of Law
Topeka, Kansas, February 25-26, 2015
“The Right to Education and Indirect Discrimination Claims: An Analysis of
the European Court of Human Rights Cases and the EU Race Equality Directive”
Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
West Virginia University College of Law
Morgantown, WV, January 29-31, 2015
“Perspectives on Deficiency Judgments”
Webinar Panel for ABA Real Property Law Section Professors’ Corner
January 14, 2015
Participant in the Economics, Law, and the Environment Workshop
Henry G. Manne Program in Law and Economics Studies
George Mason University School of Law - Law and Economics Center
December 6 – 10, 2014, Duck Key, Florida
“The European Court of Human Rights, the Roma, and the Right to Education”
Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law Workshop
Virtual presentation
University of California -Berkeley School of Law
December 5, 2014
“Minority Representation and Race-Conscious College Admissions”
Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Constitutional Law Colloquium
November 7 – 8, 2014
“Recognition and Reflection”
Symposium on Peter M. Gerhart’s book, Property Law and Social Morality
Texas A & M University School of Law
Fort Worth, TX, October 23 – 25, 2014
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“Minorities, the Right to Education, and Indirect Discrimination Claims”
University of Massachusetts –
Dartmouth School of Law’s Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange
Boston, MA, October 16 -17, 2014
“Minorities, the Right to Education, and Indirect Discrimination Claims”
Central States Law Schools Association Conference
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, October 10 – 11, 2014
“Minority Rights and Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the
European Union and the United States”
AALS 2014 Workshop on Transnational Perspectives on Equality Law
Washington, DC, June 22 – 24, 2014
“Race-conscious College Admissions in the European Union and the United States”
Developing Ideas Conference
University of Kentucky College of Law
Lexington, KY, May 20 – 21, 2014
Moderated a panel on Peter M. Gerhart’s book, Property Law and Social Morality
Association of Law Property and Society Conference
University of British Columbia
Vancouver Canada, May 1 – 3, 2014
Participant in the Public Choice Economics and the Law Workshop
Henry G. Manne Program in Law and Economics Studies
George Mason University School of Law - Law and Economics Center
Stanford University, CA, March 20 – March 23, 2014
“Race-conscious College Admissions in the European Union and the United States”
Legal Scholarship 4.0: Looking Toward the Future
Northeastern University School of Law
Boston, MA, March 14, 2014
“Inequities in the Mortgage Loan and Foreclosure Process: Making the Case
for Anti-Deficiency Legislation”
Poverty Law: Cases, Teaching, and Scholarship
American University Washington College of Law
Washington, DC, October 25 – 26, 2013
“Foreclosure in the United States: The Transformative
Possibilities of Social Unrest”
LatCrit Conference 2013
Chicago, IL, October 3- 6, 2013
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Panelist for Workshop on Constitutional Law Discussion Group:
Affirmative Action in the Wake of Fisher
Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2013 Conference
Palm Beach, FL, August 4, 2013
Participant in the Twenty-Ninth Economics Institute for Law Professors
Henry G. Manne Program in Law and Economics Studies
George Mason University School of Law - Law and Economics Center
Avon, CO, July 7 – July 19, 2013
Work-in-progress entitled, “Balancing Acts: Minimal Impact
and Critical Mass in a Post-Fisher World”
Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop 2013
University of Dayton Law School
Dayton, OH, June 21, 2013
“Substituting Race: A Comparative Analysis of French and U.S. Strategies
for Attaining Equality in Education”
New Directions in Global Thought 2013 Conference
Harvard Law School – Institute for Global Law and Policy
Cambridge, MA, June 3, 2013
“Inequities in the Mortgage Loan and Foreclosure Process: Making the Case
for Anti-Deficiency Legislation”
Law and Society 2013
Boston, MA, June 2, 2013
Work-in-progress entitled, “Reflections on Fisher and Affirmative Action”
Developing Ideas Conference
University of Kentucky College of Law
Lexington, KY, May 9 – 11, 2013
“Inequities in the Mortgage Loan Process”
Loyola University Law School, MWPOC 2013
Chicago, IL, April 19 - 21, 2013
“Foreclosure and Anti-Deficiency Legislation”
University of Pennsylvania Law School, MAPOC 2013
Philadelphia, PA, January 26, 2013
Panelist for “Avoiding Narrative Distance: Engendering Identification and Empathy
in the Classroom” session
SALT Teaching Conference Program 2012
Baltimore, Maryland October 6, 2012
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“Access and Equality of Educational Opportunity in Higher Education in France and the U.S.”
Law and Society Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii, June 7, 2012
“Deficiency Judgments and Anti-Deficiency Legislation”
Foreclosure Symposium
Northern Illinois University College of Law
Dekalb, Illinois, 2012
“Social Media and Ethics”
Ohio State Bar Association Annual Convention 2012
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2-4, 2012
“Foreclosure: Deficiency Judgments and Anti-Deficiency Legislation”
Ohio Legal Scholars Workshop
Capital University Law School
Columbus, Ohio, February 25, 2012
“Access and Equality of Educational Opportunity in Higher Education in France and the U.S.”
Albany Building Teachers and Scholars Conference
Albany Law School
Albany, New York, February 3- 5, 2012
"Re-articulating Frenchness: Framing African France"
The Idea of France Conference,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, November 10-12, 2012
“Access and Equality of Educational Opportunity in Higher Education
in France and the U.S.”
Central States Law Scholarship Conference
University of Toledo Law School
Toledo, OH, October 28 -30, 2011
"Institutional and Organizational Dimensions of Environmental Law"
Panel Chair
Law and Society Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2011
“Access and Equality of Educational Opportunity in Higher Education in France and the U.S.”
Developing Ideas Conference
University of Kentucky College of Law
Lexington, KY, May 12, 2011
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“Ethno-Racial Minorities and Equality of Educational Opportunity in France and the U.S.”
Midwest People of Color Law Conference
John Marshall Law School
Chicago, Illinois, 2010
“Examination of Black France through the Intersecting Prisms of the Arts and Politics:
Med Hondo’s Soleil O”
Constructing Black France –“A Transatlantic Dialogue”
International Symposium - Barnard College and Maison Française
Columbia University,
New York, New York, 17 April 2009
“Francophone African Immigrant Identities in Documentary Form.”
AFECCAV Colloque International, Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences
Humaines de Lyon,
Lyon, France 6 -8 July 2004
“Feminism and Film/Media Scholarship: Building a Community of the Question Workshop”
Workshop Participant
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Atlanta, GA 4-7 March 2004
“Mothers’ Memories: North African Female Subjectivities in Yamina Benguigui’s
Mémoires d’Immigrés”
Panel: New Aesthetics in Recent International Cinema
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Minneapolis, MN 6-9 March 2003
“African Immigrant Identities in Vivre au paradis”
Panel: African Cinema and Representation
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Denver, CO, May 25, 2002
Cinematic Constructions of Francophone African Immigrant Identities”
Panel: Colonialism and Beyond
African Literature Association Conference, University of San Diego
San Diego, CA 7 April 2002
“Francophone African Immigrant Identities”
Panel: French II Contemporary Issues in French Studies
M/MLA - Midwest Modern Language Association
Cleveland, OH 2 November 2001
“French Cinema and the European Union: The Struggle to Preserve French
Culture Through Regulation.”
European Union Conference, Institut d’Etudes Politiques
Paris, France 24 July 1998
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LAW SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
* Chair, AALS Section on Real Property, 2015 (Chair-Elect, 2014) (Secretary, 2013)
* Secretary for AALS Section on Real Estate Transactions, 2015 (Treasurer, 2014)
* Executive Committee Member of the AALS Section on Comparative Law (2013, 2014)
* AALS Faculty Senate Representative, 2012 -2014
* Law School Representative for University Task Force on Student Learning and Assessment
* Co-Chair of University of Akron Law School’s Committee on Assessment
* Admissions Committee
* Faculty Hiring Committee
* ABA Real Property Section Member
* Law and Society Member
* Society of American Law Teachers Member
BAR MEMBERSHIP
Illinois
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