Benjamin H. Barton

Ben Barton is the author of the books Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, Rebooting Justice: More Technology, Fewer Lawyers and the Future of Law, and The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Courts. He has been a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee since 2001. He has worked as an associate at a large law firm, clerked for a federal judge, represented the indigent for 12 years as a clinical law professor, and now teaches torts, contracts, and advocacy evidence. Rebooting Justice was positively reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and his scholarship has been discussed in USA Today, The ABA Journal, and TIME magazine. His law review articles have been published in the International Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the law reviews of the Universities of Toronto, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California. Professor Barton won the student selected Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award in 2013. In 2014-15 he received a Fulbright Award to teach Comparative Law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He has been named the Outstanding Faculty Advisor for UT Pro Bono three times 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.”