Naked Fitzies and Iron Cages:
Individual Values, Professional Virtues,
and the Struggle for Public Space
Meet the Author
Barry Sullivan,
J.D.
Barry Sullivan
is a litigation partner in the Chicago office
of Jenner & Block and co-chair of the firm's
appellate practice group. A Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Middlebury College and the University
of Chicago Law School, Mr. Sullivan first
joined the firm in 1975, following a clerkship
with Judge John Minor Wisdom, one of the nation's
most renowned federal judges. In 1980-81,
he also served as Assistant to the Solicitor
General of the United States.
Mr. Sullivan has briefed
and argued cases in the United States Supreme
Court and in state and federal appellate
courts throughout the United States. In
addition to his litigation practice, he
also has been extensively involved in counseling
educational, governmental and not-for-profit
organizations. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Sullivan
was chair of the American Bar Association's
Coordinating Committee on AIDS and the Law.
More recently, he served as leader of the
team that prepared the U.S. Supreme Court
brief filed by the American Bar Association
in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, one of the "enemy
combatant" cases.
Mr. Sullivan has also
been involved in legal education. From 1994
to 1999, he was dean and professor of law
at the Washington and Lee University School
of Law. In 1998-99, he also served as vice
president of the university. Mr. Sullivan
has been a visiting professor at Northwestern
University Law School, a Fulbright professor
at the University of Warsaw and a visiting
fellow of Queen Mary College, University
of London. Most recently, he has taught
part-time at the University of Warsaw and
at the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Sullivan is also a member of the editorial
board of the Dublin University Law Journal,
the visiting committee of the Irving B.
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
Studies of the University of Chicago, and
the advisory board of the Human Rights Institute
of DePaul University.
Mr. Sullivan's professional
publications, primarily in the areas of
legal ethics and the legal profession, administrative
and constitutional law, employment law,
and appellate practice, have appeared in
Yale Law Journal, Dublin University
Law Journal, Law and Contemporary
Problems, Legal Ethics, Northwestern
Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review,
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics,
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics
and Public Policy, Tulane Law Review,
and Warsaw University Law Review,
among others.
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