Rachel Barkow

Rachel Elise Barkow (née Selinfreund; born 1971)[1] is an American professor of law at the New York University School of Law. She is also faculty director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.[2] Her scholarship focuses on administrative and criminal law, and she is especially interested in applying the lessons and theory of administrative law to the administration of criminal justice. In 2007, Barkow won the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU.[3] In the fall of 2008, she served as the Beneficial Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[3]

Rachel Barkow
Born	1971 (age 48–49)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard Law School (J.D., 1996) Northwestern University (A.B., 1993)
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Sub-discipline	Administrative law, criminal law
Institutions	New York University School of Law

Education and clerkships

In 1993, Barkow graduated from Northwestern University, and was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1996, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, Barkow won the Sears Prize (awarded to the top two grade point averages in the first year of law school), and served on the Harvard Law Review.[3]

She clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia at the U.S. Supreme Court, according to one report serving as the "counter-clerk"—the nickname given to the Democrat he hires to sniff out political biases in his arguments.[4]

Legal career

Barkow was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C., from 1998–2002, where she focused on telecommunications and administrative law issues in proceedings before the FCC, state regulatory agencies, and federal and state courts. She took a leave from the firm in 2001 to serve as the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Georgetown University Law Center.[3]

Barkow is occasionally mentioned as a potential future United States Supreme Court nominee.[4][5]

She has published more than 20 articles and book chapters, and her work has appeared in the country's top law reviews.[3] She has contributed editorials to publications such as the Huffington Post.[6] and the Boston Herald.[7]

Public service

She is a member of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel, which advises the office on best practices and issues in the area of wrongful convictions.[8] She has testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection regarding the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency,[9] before the United States Sentencing Commission making recommendations for reforming the federal sentencing system,[10] and before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the future of the federal sentencing guidelines in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Blakely v. Washington.[11]

On April 15, 2013, President Obama nominated Barkow to serve as a Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission.[12]

Honors and awards

She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. [13]

Selected publications

• ———; Osler, Mark (2015). "Restructuring Clemency: The Cost of Ignoring Clemency and a Plan for Renewal". University of Chicago Law Review. 82 (1): 1–26. JSTOR 43234686.
• ——— (2013). "Prosecutorial Administration: Prosecutor Bias and the Department of Justice". Virginia Law Review. 99 (2): 271–342. JSTOR 23528857.
• ——— (2006). "Separation of Powers and the Criminal Law". Stanford Law Review. 58 (4): 989–1054. JSTOR 40040287.
• ——— (2005). "Federalism and the Politics of Sentencing". Columbia Law Review. 105 (4): 1276–1314. JSTOR 4099434.
• ——— (2002). "More Supreme than Court? The Fall of the Political Question Doctrine and the Rise of Judicial Supremacy". Columbia Law Review. 102 (2): 237–336. doi:10.2307/1123824. JSTOR 1123824.

References

1. "Weddings; Rachel Selinfreund, Anthony Barkow". The New York Times. October 3, 1999. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
2. "Faculty Director | NYU School of Law". Law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
3. "Faculty, Rachel E. Barkow: Overview". Its.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
4. Schneider-Mayerson, Anna (2005-11-03). "The Little Supremes". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
5. Filipovic, Jill (2016-02-15). "13 Women Who Should Be Considered to Replace Justice Scalia". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
6. "Rachel Barkow". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
7. Barkow, Rachel E.; Libling, Joshua J. (December 6, 2008). "Sentencing laws needn't drain us". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
8. "DISTRICT ATTORNEY VANCE ANNOUNCES CONVICTION INTEGRITY PROGRAM". March 4, 2010. Archived from the original on April 19, 2011. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
9. "Statement of Rachel E. Barkow : The Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Implications for Consumers and the FTC Before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection" (PDF). 2009-07-08. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
10. "Statement of Rachel E. Barkow : Before the United States Sentencing Commission Regional Hearings" (PDF). 2009-12-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-29. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
11. "Testimony of Professor Rachel Barkow". July 13, 2004. Archived from the original on September 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
12. "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts | The White House". Whitehouse.gov. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
13. "2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election". members.amacad.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.

External links

• Profile at New York University