Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
cbarzun@virginia.edu
(434) 924-6454
Room WB305

ASSISTANT
Valerie Listorti

SUBJECTS
evidence, torts, legal history, jurisprudence

Charles Barzun

Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2005
M.A., University of Virginia, 2005
A.B., Harvard University

Charles Barzun joined the faculty in 2008. His areas of interest include evidence, torts, legal history and jurisprudence.

After receiving his A.B. in government from Harvard in 1997, Barzun worked in corporate and product development at CNET Networks, an Internet media company in San Francisco. In 2005, he received a J.D./M.A. degree from Virginia. During law school, he served as notes development editor of the Virginia Law Review and won the Best Note Award for his student note, "Common Sense and Legal Science." After graduating, he clerked for for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty, Charles was a Climenko Fellow and lecturer at Harvard Law School.

Publications

"The Forgotten Foundations of Hart and Sacks," 99 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2013). PDF
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"Legal Rights and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis," 26 Ratio Juris. 215 (2013).
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Book Review, Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller (by Kristen Rundle) (forthcoming, Modern Law Review).

"Impeaching Precedent," (forthcoming, University of Chicago Law Review).
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"Jerome Frank and the Modern Mind," 58 Buffalo L. Rev. 1127 (2010).
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"Rules of Weight," 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1957 (2008).
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"Politics or Principle? Zechariah Chafee and the Social Interest in Free Speech," B.Y.U. L. Rev. 259 (2007).
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"Common Sense and Legal Science," 90 Va. L. Rev. 1051 (2004).
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Current Courses

All Courses

Evidence
Jurisprudence
Torts
Seminar in Ethical Values