Academics

Professor Barker has written and lectured extensively, in English and Spanish, on constitutional topics throughout the Western Hemisphere. From 1984 to 1996 he served as Chairman of the Inter-American Bar Association’s Committee on Constitutional Law. In 1995, he became the first Fulbright Scholar in the history of Duquesne’s Law School, teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has also been awarded grants for international legal research from the Organization of American States, Duquesne University, and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is the General Reporter of the Inter-American Bar Association, and a member of the American Law Institute.

For more than fifteen years, Professor Barker was an Allocatur Consultant to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

In 1999, Professor Barker received the Duquesne University President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and in 2001, he became the first person in history of the University to receive the rank of Duquesne University Distinguished Professor of Law. His book, La Constitución de los Estados Unidos y su dinámica actual, is scheduled to be published in 2004.