Speaker Biographies

John Q. Barrett is Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches constitutional law and legal history, and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and a board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York.

Barrett, a prominent teacher, scholar, public lecturer and commentator, is writing the biography of Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954). Jackson was a leading New York State and American lawyer, including in Buffalo; a senior New Deal official; Solicitor General of the United States; Attorney General of the United States; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; and, during 1945-1946, the architect of and then the chief U.S. prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Allied-occupied former Germany, which adjudicated the guilt of the principal surviving Nazi leaders.

Professor Barrett discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson's previously unknown, now acclaimed memoir That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Professor Barrett also sends periodic "Jackson List" email to tens of thousands of readers around the world who are interested in Justice Jackson, Nuremberg, constitutional law and related topics.

Barrett is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. Before he joined the St. John's law faculty, he was a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh (Iran/Contra); and Counselor to U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael R. Bromwich.

After earning his Phi Beta Kappa key from Brown and serving as current topics editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review while at Yale, Eric L. Muller clerked for United States District Judge H. Lee Sarokin in Newark, New Jersey from 1987 to 1988. He then practiced in the litigation department of a private law firm in Manhattan from 1988 to 1990, before joining the United States Attorney's Office in Newark, where he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Appeals Division from 1990 to 1994.

Muller moved to the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1994 to begin full-time teaching, specializing in criminal justice and constitutional issues. In 1997, he was named the outstanding teacher at Wyoming College of Law.

Muller joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law in the fall of 1998. He has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review, among many other academic journals. His book Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters of World War II, was published in August of 2001 by the University of Chicago Press, and was named one of the Washington Post Book World's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001. His second book, American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in October of 2007.

In 2008, Muller became Associate Dean for Faculty Development. In 2010 and 2011, he was conferred the Fredrick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence.

Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California. In fall 2011 she is the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor at Duke Law School. She is the author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000, 2nd ed. 2011), Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (Oxford University Press, 2008), and War • Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (forthcoming Oxford University Press, Feb. 2012). She is editor of September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Duke University Press, 2003), and co-editor with Leti Volpp of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders, American Quarterly (Special Issue, September 2005) (reissued by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Her next book, under contract with Oxford University Press, is How War Made America: A 20th Century History.

Dudziak's fellowships and honors include: Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science, 2007-08; American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 2006; Law and Public Affairs Program, Princeton University, fall 2002; Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, and others. In 2005-06 she was the William Nelson Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and in fall 2008 she was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Maryland Law School. Her teaching career began at the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986. Her degrees include: Ph.D. American Studies, Yale 1992; J.D. Yale Law School 1984; A.B. University of California, Berkeley 1978. She created the Legal History Blog, a leading blog in law and the humanities. She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History and the Law and Society Association.