Areas
of Concentration: Constitutional Law, Legal Process,
Comparative Law, Civil Procedure, International
Law
Professor Barker earned
his undergraduate degree at Duquesne University,
where he majored in History and Political Science
and was captain of the debate team.
He graduated in 1966 from Duquesne University
School of Law, where he was Case Editor of the
Duquesne University Law Review. Following his
admission to the Pennsylvania bar, he served for
two years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama.
Upon his return to Western Pennsylvania, he worked
as an attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services,
an official of the City of Pittsburgh’s
Model Cities Program, an associate of the law
firm of Rose, Schmidt and Dixon, and Assistant
Dean and Assistant Professor at Duquesne University
School of Law.
In 1974, he earned a Master’s
degree in American History at Duquesne. Thereafter,
as Assistant Allegheny County Solicitor, he was
Legal Counsel to Pittsburgh International Airport
for six years, and served as Vice Chairman and,
later, Chairman of the American Bar Association
Committee on Airport Law. He returned to the full-time
Duquesne Law faculty in 1982.
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Robert
S. Barker