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Barry P. McDonald, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: barry.mcdonald@pepperdine.edu

  • J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1988, cum laude
  • B.B.A., Loyola University of Chicago, 1981
Professor McDonald teaches courses in Constitutional Law, First Amendment Law, Intellectual Property, Contracts, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also a recognized scholar in the area of First Amendment law. Since joining the Pepperdine faculty in 2000, he has published several articles on the law governing freedom of expression in such prominent journals as the Emory Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review and Ohio State Law Journal. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor McDonald worked for the U.S. Department of State, the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and as general counsel to various established and start-up technology companies. In law school, Professor McDonald received the Order of the Coif, the Arlyn Miner Legal Writing Award, and was an associate editor of the Northwestern Law Review. Upon graduation he clerked for the Honorable James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and then served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist during the 1989-90 term of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a member of the State Bar of California, and also serves as the current chair of the Mass Communications Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

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Selected Works:
  • Campaign Finance Regulation and the Marketplace of Emotions, 36 PEPP. L. REV. 395 (2009) (symposium issue).
  • Getting Beyond Religion as Science: "Unstifling" Worldview Formation in American Public Education, 66 WASHINGTON & LEE L. REV. 587 (2009).
  • If Obscenity Were to Discriminate, 103 NW. U.L. REV. COLLOQUY 72 (2008); 103 NW. U. L. REV. 475 (2009).
  • Speech and Distrust: Rethinking the Content Approach to Protecting the Freedom of Expression, 81 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1347 (2006).
  • Government Regulation or Other "Abridgements" of Scientific Research: The Proper Scope of Judicial Review Under the First Amendment, 54 EMORY L.J. 979 (2005).
  • The First Amendment and the Free Flow of Information: Towards a Realistic Right to Gather Information in the Information Age, 65 OHIO ST. L.J. 249 (2004).
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