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Kent Barnett
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Centre College
J.D., University of Kentucky
Courses
Contracts and Sales
Consumer Law
Biographical Information
Kent Barnett, who specializes in administrative law, contracts and consumer law, joined the Georgia faculty in 2012.
Barnett’s most recent scholarship has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review and the North Carolina Law Review. His research currently focuses on the separation of powers in the federal administrative state and the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His scholarship has been cited by leading administrative law casebooks and by the U.S. Court of Appeals. His scholarship has been selected for presentation at, among other places, the 2012 Yale-Stanford-Harvard Junior Faculty Forum at Harvard Law School, the 2012 Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop at the William & Mary Law School and programs at Association of American Law Schools Annual Meetings.
Before coming to UGA, he served as the Inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he taught administrative law, professional responsibility and contracts. He also served as a judicial clerk for Judge John M. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and practiced law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in its complex commercial litigation and appellate groups.
He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Centre College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was selected as a John C. Young Scholar and received The Art Prize, The E. Wilbur Cook Music Prize and The Franklin-Bennett Music Prize. He received his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif. At the University of Kentucky, he was articles editor of the Kentucky Law Journal and received, among other awards, the Colvin P. Rouse Award for best overall legal scholarship and the Kentucky Commercial Law Foundation Award for best commercial law scholarship.
ARTICLES:
To the Victor Goes the Toil—Remedies for Regulated Parties in Separation-of-Powers Litigation, 92 N.C. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014).
Resolving the ALJ Quandary, 66 Vand. L. Rev. 797 (2013).
Avoiding Independent Agency Armageddon, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1349 (2012).
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Appointment with Trouble, 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 1459 (2011).
Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Should a Court Certify a Class of Residential Consumers Seeking a Declaration that the Consumers—if They Later Choose—Are Entitled to Rescind for a TILA Violation?, 125 Banking L.J. 160 (2008) (with Angela C. Zambrano).
Lending a Helping Hand?—A Guide to Kentucky’s New Predatory Lending Law, 93 Ky. L.J. 473 (2005).
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
Codifying Chevmore
Expertise, Agency Preemption, and Chevmore Codification
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
AALS Annual Meeting, “New Voices in Public Remedies,” Presenter, New York, NY, Jan. 2014 (forthcoming).
SEALS Annual Meeting, Administrative Procedure: Enemy of the State?, Panelist, Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 2013.
Emory/UGA Law Faculty Workshop, Codifying Chevmore, Presenter, Athens, Ga., July 2013.
AALS Annual Meeting, “New Voices in Administrative Law,” Structural Remediation of the Federal Administrative State, Presenter, New Orleans, La., Jan. 2013.
Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, Structural Improvements to Formal Executive Adjudication, Presenter, William and Mary College of Law, Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 2012.
Southeastern Law Schools Senior/Junior Legal Scholars Workshop, Remedying Structural Defects, Presenter, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, La., Oct. 2012.
Junior Faculty Forum, Formal Administrative Adjudication’s Separation-of-Powers Quandary, Presenter, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., June 2012.
Symposium, American University Law Review, Is Financial Reform Too Big to Fail?, Presenter, Am. U. Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2011.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Forgetting Appointments? —Considering the CFPB and the Overlooked Appointments Clause, Bloomberg L. Rep. -- Banking & Fin., Mar. 5, 2012, at 3–7.
The Twombly/Iqbal Revolution’s Effect on Affirmative Defenses, SIDEBAR (2010).
Wavering Over Consumer Class Actions, 27 Banking & Fin. Servs. 4 (2008) (co-authored).
Ten Things You Should Know About Privilege Under Texas Law, 71 Tex. Bar J. 690 (2008) (co-authored).
Contact Information
University of Georgia
School of Law
204 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-5169
Fax: (706) 542-5556
Email: khbarn@uga.edu
Administrative Support
Tina Whitehair
Phone: (706) 542-5185
Email: tinaw@uga.edu
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