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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, joins the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in the 2012-13 academic year.
Barnett has published, or has forthcoming, articles concerning administrative law, consumer law and civil procedure in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, American University Law Review, Kentucky Law Journal and Banking Law Journal, among others. His research currently focuses on separation of powers in the federal administrative state and the new Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His forthcoming article in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Structural Improvements to Formal Executive Adjudication, was selected for presentation at the peer-reviewed 2012 Yale-Stanford-Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, held at Harvard Law School in June 2012. His scholarship has been cited by leading administrative-law case books and by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Before coming to UGA, he served as a 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, and his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky, where he was articles editor for the Kentucky Law Journal and inducted into the Order of the Coif.
ARTICLES:
Structural Improvements to Formal Executive Adjudication, 66 Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 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:
Structural Remediation of the Federal Administrative State.
Separation of Powers as Penumbra.
Federalism's Role in Consumer-Protection Law.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
SEALS Annual Meeting, Administrative Procedure: Enemy of the State?, Panelist, Palm Beach, Fla., July 2013 (forthcoming).
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.
Randall-Park Colloquium, Resolving the ALJ Quandary, Presenter, University of Kentucky College of Law, Sept. 2011.
Developing Ideas Conference, Resolving the ALJ Quandary, Presenter, University of Kentucky College of Law, May 2011.
Faculty Presentation Series, Avoiding Independent Agency Armageddon, Presenter, University of Kentucky College of Law, Apr. 2011.
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
234 Dean Rusk 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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