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Widener Law professor takes on leadership role

 with national legal education group

 

Widener University School of Law Associate Professor D. Benjamin Barros was recently elected to the chairmanship of the Association of American Law Schools� Property Law Section.

 

The section is made up of about 1,200 people and is one of the association�s largest. Barros, 38, of East Pennsboro, Pa., was elected to the post during the association�s annual conference and meeting, held in early January in New York City.

 

AALS is the principal representative of legal education to the federal government and other national higher education organizations. It is a resource for the improvement in the quality of legal education.

 

According to the AALS, organization sections are interest groups composed of members of the faculty and professional staff of AALS-member schools. They present programs at the AALS annual meeting, provide newsletters for their membership and conduct other activities of interest to their members, such as mentoring programs, exam exchanges, directories and listservs.

 

�I congratulate Ben on this achievement. He is a respected expert in the field of property law and the section members made a wise choice when they elected him chairman,� Law Dean Linda L. Ammons said.

 

Barros joined the faculty of Widener Law�s Harrisburg campus in 2004 from the New York office of Latham & Watkins LLP, where his practice focused on international litigation and arbitration. While in practice, he taught international arbitration as an adjunct at Fordham University School of Law. He also practiced in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and was a law clerk to Judge Milton Pollack of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

At Widener, Barros teaches property, a seminar on property theory and business organizations. His research focuses on property law and theory, property law reform and takings. He is spending the current academic year as a visiting associate professor at The Catholic University of America�s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C.

 

 

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