Barry C. Feld

Centennial Professor of Law

Barry Feld

340 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-9389

feldx001@umn.edu

University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
University of Minnesota, J.D.
Harvard University, Ph.D.

Professor Barry C. Feld is a one of the nation's leading scholars of juvenile justice. He teaches criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts, and education and law. In 1990, Professor Feld was named the Law School's first Centennial Professor of Law. He was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law for 1981-82.

Professor Feld received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from Harvard University, where he was a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow in Law and the Social Sciences. In 1972, he joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty. In 1974 and 1978, he served as Assistant Hennepin County Attorney in the Criminal and Juvenile Divisions.

 

In 1987, Professor Feld was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Juvenile Justice sponsored by the United States Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He was a Reporter for the American Bar Association-Institute of Judicial Administration Juvenile Justice Standards Project and was a member of the Minnesota Department of Corrections Special Committee on Serious Juvenile Offenders. He also served on the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Task Force, the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Legal Representation of Juveniles, the Minnesota Juvenile Justice Task Force, and as Co-Reporter for the Minnesota Supreme Court's Juvenile Court Rules Advisory Committee. Professor Feld is a member of the American Law Institute.