Benjamin H. Barton
Professor of Law
BA, 1991, Haverford College
JD, 1996, University of Michigan
Ben Barton
Courses Taught
- Advocacy Clinic
- Torts
About
Ben Barton has taught at the University of Tennessee College of Law since 2001. He teaches torts, evidence, advocacy clinic, comparative law, and images of the law. He served as the Director of Clinical Programs from 2007-11. His book "The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Courts" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. His law review articles have been published in the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, and Empirical Law Reviews and discussed in Time Magazine, The New York Times, the ABA Journal, and The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, among others. Professor Barton has been named the Outstanding Faculty Advisor for UT Pro Bono twice and has received the Marilyn V. Yarbrough and Carden Awards for his scholarship. He is the winner of the 2010 LSAC Philip D. Shelton Award for outstanding research in legal education for the article "Is There a Correlation Between Law Professor Publication Counts, Law Review Citation Counts, and Teaching Evaluations? An Empirical Study."