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Washington University in St. Louis News & Information > Faculty Experts at Washington University in St. Louis >

Katherine Barnes

Associate Professor of Law

Expertise: statistical evidence, forms of proof, racial profiling, discrimnation law, labor and employment law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, disability discrimination, death penalty

Bio: Barnes is an expert on statistical evidence and forms of proof. She is the co-author of "Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway." Barnes has also written on the relationship between crime rates and American attitudes towards the death penalty and deterence and the death penalty.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-6273
E-mail:kybarnes@wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130

Education:
  • B.A. at Swarthmore College
  • M.S. at University of Minnesota
  • J.D. at University of Michigan Law School
  • Ph.D. in Statistics at University of Minnesota

Additional Background: Before coming to Washington University, Barnes worked as a judicial clerk, focusing on cases related to disability discrimination and criminal procedure. Barnes is currently a Ph.D. candidate in statistics at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation is about "Bayesian Inference in Spatial Clustering Models of Crime Data."

Related Information
Media Assistance:

Jessica Martin
Director, News & Information for the School of Law and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work
jessica_martin@wustl.edu

(314) 935-5251
Related Links:
Barnes' Web page

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Wednesday, June 30, 2004


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