Barry Friedman

Barry Friedman serves as the Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, where he is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics. He is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the federal courts, having taught, written about, and litigated in these areas for over thirty years. Friedman also is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s project to write best practices for policing agencies, Principles of the Law: Policing. He is the author of Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission (2017), and The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009), as well as many scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines. His work appears frequently in the popular media, including the New York Times, Slate, Huffington Post, Politico and the New Republic. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.