Dr. Jeb Barnes

Biography

Joining the faculty in 2001, Jeb Barnes graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. He worked as a lawyer, clerked at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago and practiced as a commercial litigator in Boston and San Francisco. After leaving law, he attended graduate school at UC Berkeley, where he studied public law, public administration, and American politics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. His studies focus on the intersection of law, politics, and public policy through mixed-method research strategies. His primary research examines the law and courts from an 'interbranch perspective,' contending that American politics and policy-making arise from the interactions between branches and levels of government. This perspective illustrates that the U.S. Constitution disperses power across overlapping and diverse representative policy-making forums, resulting in institutional redundancy, direct confrontations, strategic alliances, and political dynamics. He publishes in the field of mixed-method research design, which explores the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex phenomena.

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