David W. Barnes

Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


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Biography & Scholarship
Biography
Publications and Articles
Curriculum Vitae
Courses & Syllabi
Intellectual Property
Torts I
Antitrust
The Doctrine of Unconscionability
Biography
 

David Jake Barnes is the Seton Hall University Distinguished Research Professor Law. Professor Barnes began teaching at Seton Hall in 1999 after being the Charles W. Delaney Professor of Law at the University of Denver and teaching with the economics and the law faculties at Syracuse University. Professor Barnes’ educational background includes undergraduate study at Dartmouth College and Wellesley College, an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

His casebooks and treatises include THE LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; BASIC TORT LAW: CASES, PROBLEMS, STATUTES, AND MATERIALS; CASES AND MATERIALS ON LAW AND ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE IN LITIGATION: METHODOLOGY, PROCEDURE, AND PRACTICE; AND STATISTICS AS PROOF: FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE. He has written dozens of articles in various areas of law including torts, intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, environmental law, evidence, remedies, and the use of statistical and scientific methods in court.

 

Publications
 
Books
 

The Law of Intellectual Property, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (with C. Nard and M. Madison) (2006).

Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes, Problems, and Materials, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (with A. Best) (2003 and subsequent editions).

Cases and Materials on Law and Economics , West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual. The following adaptations have been published as separate books:

Economic Foundations of Regulation and Antitrust Law, West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual.

The Economics of Property Rights and Nuisance Law, West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual.

The Economic Analysis of Tort Law, West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual.

The Economics of Contract Law, West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual.

The Economics of Constitutional Law and Public Choice, West Publishing Co. (with L. Stout) (1992) with Teacher's Manual.

Statistical Evidence in Litigation:  Methodology, Procedure, and Practice, Little, Brown and Co. (with J. Conley) (1986 and updated supplements).

Statistics as Proof:  Fundamentals of Quantitative Evidence, Little, Brown and Co. (1983).

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Articles
 

Misappropriation of Trademark, 9 NORTH CAROLINA J. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (forthcoming 2008).

Trademark Externalities,
10 YALE J. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (forthcoming 2007)
 
A New Economics of Trademarks, 5 NORTHWESTERN J. TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 22 (2006).

An Alternative Torts Model of Secondary Copyright Liability, 55 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 867 (2005).

Imwinkleried’s Argument for Normative Ethical Testimony, 33 J. Law, Medicine & Ethics 234(2005).

A Unifying Theory of Contract Damages, 55 Syracuse L. Rev. 495 (2005) (w/ D. Zalesne).

Classic Fair Use in Trademark:  Confusion about Defenses, 20 Santa Clara Computer and High Tech L. J. 833 (2004) (w/ T. Laky)

The Shadow Code, 56 South Carolina L. Rev. 93 (2004) (w/ D. Zalesne).

General Acceptance versus Scientific Soundness: Mad Scientists in the Courtroom, 31 Florida State L. Rev. 303 (2004).

Comment on the Age Discrimination Example, 42 Jurimetrics J.301 (2002).

Too Many Probabilities: Statistical Evidence of Tort Causation, 64 Law and Contemporary Problems 191 (2001).

Remedies for Imperfect Transactions in Contracts and Torts, 38 San Diego L. Rev. 193 (2001).

The Net Expectation Interest in Contract Damages, 49 Emory L.J. 1137 (1999).

Antitrust, The Rule of Reason,and Democracy: A Letter from Justice William O. Douglas, 14 Rev. of Industrial Organization 115 (1999).

Gender, Risk Preferences, and Negotiation Performance, 5 Michigan J. on Gender and Law 299 (1999)(with C. Craver).

The Anatomy of Contract Damages and Efficient Breach Theory, 6 So. Calif. Interdisciplinary L. J. 397 (1998).

An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Certain Linguistic Practices Concerning Admission of Evidence, 91 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 637 (1997)(sub nom Jake Barnes).

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