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Barry Sullivan
A.B., J.D.
Professor of Law

A.B. 1970, Middlebury College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D. 1974, University of Chicago Law School; Associate Editor, University of Chicago Law Review; admitted to practice in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Virginia; law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom, U. S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1974-75; associate, Jenner & Block, Chicago, 1975-80; Adjunct Lecturer, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, spring 1979; Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1980-81; partner, Jenner & Block, Chicago, 1981-94; Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Illinois, 1989-90; Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern, 1992-93; Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern University, Fall 1990 - Spring 1992 and 1993-94; Dean, Washington and Lee University School of Law, 1994-1999; Vice-President, Washington and Lee University, 1998-1999; Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1994-.

Courses

American Public Law Process; Civil Procedure; Employment Practices; Pretrial Litigation; Remedies-Equity; Supreme Court; Local Government Law.

Publications

On the Borderlands of Chevron's Empire: An Essay on Title VII, Agency Procedures and Priorities, and the Power of Judicial Review, 62 La. L. Rev. 317 (2002).

Respect, Responsibility, and the Virtue of Introspection: An Essay on Professionalism in the Law School Environment, 15 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 117 (2001) (with Ellen S. Podgor).

John Wisdom, Watchman of the Republic, Forester of the Soul, 69 Miss. L.J. 1 (1999) (Tribute to John Minor Wisdom).

The Problem and Possibilities of Professionalism, 21 Dublin U. L.J. 108 (1999).

A Tribute to Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 56 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 16 (1999).

Book Review, 25 Hum. Rts., Winter 1998, at 5 (reviewing Brian K. Landsberg, Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice (1997)).

Book Review, 1998 Christian Century 556 (reviewing John C. Tucker, May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment (1997)).

A Tribute to Alexander M. Harman, Jr., 54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 871 (1997).

A Tribute to Walter E. Hoffman, 54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1346 (1997).

Professions of Law, 9 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1235 (1996).

To See Life Steadily and to See It Whole: For Judge Wisdom in His Ninety-First Year, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 3 (1996) (Dedication to Judge John Minor Widsom).

A Tribute to Edmund Douglas Campbell, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1212 (1996).

Foreword: Civil Rights in 1995, 1 Race & Ethnic Ancestry L. Dig. iv (1995).

"Not Unmindful of the Future": Some Reflections on Stability and Change, 52 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 323 (1995).

Is the Legal Profession on the Trash Heap? (Dissatisfaction and the Legal Profession), 94 Bus. & Soc'y Rev. 19 (1995).

AIDS: Law, Public Policy, and the Continuing Work of the American Bar Association, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 273 (1994) (AIDS Law Symposium: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues).

Among Schoolchildren: AIDS, the Law, and the Public Schools, in Child, Parent, and State: Law and Policy Reader 523 (S. Randall Humm et al. eds., Temple University Press 1994).

Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Science: Making the Trains Run on Time, 89 Nw. U. L. Rev. 166 (1994) (reviewing Stephen Breyer, Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (1993)).

A Tribute to J. Timothy Philipps, 51 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1146 (1994).

When the Environment Is Other People: An Essay on Science, Culture, and the Authoritative Allocation of Values, 69 Notre Dame L. Rev. 597 (1994).

Dedication: For Judge Wisdom on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday, 64 Tul. L. Rev. 1341 (1990).

Historical Reconstruction, Reconstruction History, and the Proper Scope of Section 1981, 98 Yale L.J. 541 (1989).

Preserving Error in Civil Cases: Some Fundamental Principles, 32 Trial Law. Guide 1 (1988) (with Barry Levenstam & David von Ebers).

Legal Change and Legal Autonomy: Charitable Trusts in New York, 1777-1893, 3 Law & Hist. Rev. 51 (1985) (with Stanley N. Katz & C. Paul Beach).

The Honest Muse: Judge Wisdom and the Uses of History, 60 Tul. L. Rev. 314 (1985).

Some Thoughts on the Constitutionality of Good Samaritan Statutes, 8 Am. J.L. & Med. 27 (1982).

           

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