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Barbara Berenson is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School. She previously served as a Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2004 to 2019, where she worked on a diverse range of legal policy issues and staffed numerous court committees. Her areas of expertise include judicial ethics, legal ethics, court rules and procedures, and appellate practice. Before her role at the court, she served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Community-Based Justice Bureau from 1999 to 2003 and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County Appeals Training Bureau from 1989 to 1999. Barbara began her legal career as a law clerk for Hon. Norma Shapiro in the E.D. PA and subsequently worked as an associate at the law firm Hill & Barlow. Barbara retired from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 2019 to devote time to her long-standing interests in American legal, political, and social history. She is the author of several works, including 'The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers' (2018) and 'Boston Civil War: Hub of the Revolution' (2014). She has also co-edited 'Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts' (2012). Barbara is currently engaged in research on the battle for equal rights and child labor amendments in the 1920s.
Applied for under 'Department of Law', 'Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law', 'Department of Constitutional Law', 'Department of Japanese Legal Studies', and 'Department of Human Rights'.