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Amy Coney Barrett

Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame
J.D., Notre Dame, 1997
B.A., Rhodes College, 1994

Amy Coney Barrett is an associate professor at the Notre Dame Law School. She teaches and researches in the areas of federal courts, civil procedure, and statutory interpretation.

She earned her B.A. in English literature, magna cum laude, from Rhodes College in 1994, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and, among other honors, was chosen by the faculty as the most outstanding graduate in the college’s English department. She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Notre Dame in 1997, where she was a Kiley Fellow, earned the Hoynes Prize, the Law School’s highest honor, and served as executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

After graduating from Notre Dame, she clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an associate for Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C., where she litigated white collar crime and religious liberty cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty, Professor Barrett served as a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at the George Washington University Law School. In 2006, the graduating class of the Notre Dame Law School named Professor Barrett the Professor of the Year.

She will teach a seminar in statutory interpretation at the Law School in October.

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