Open Book: The Inside Track to Law School Success, Second Edition

Barry Friedman is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the federal courts. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009), and is currently writing a book on policing and the Constitution, tentatively titled Policing with Permission, under contract with Farrar, Straus Giroux. He is the reporter for the American Law Institute's new Principles of Law: Police Investigations. Friedman is the founding director of NYU Law’s new Policing Project and teaches an externship course called Governing Policing. He publishes regularly in the nation’s leading academic journals, in the fields of law, politics, and history; his work also appears frequently in the popular press, including The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, and The New Republic.

Friedman serves as a litigator or litigation consultant on a variety of matters in the federal and state courts and has had a long involvement with social change issues. He has taught Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Criminal Procedure for 30 years, and has recently developed a new course entitled Judicial Decisionmaking that marries social science about judging with normative and institutional legal questions. He and a set of co-authors from law and the social sciences are writing a course book on the subject. Friedman graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.