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Barbara is Counsel in the Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group. She is a tenured professor of human resource management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses in higher education law, employment law, and human resource management. Barbara has held several leadership positions at Rutgers, including Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations, associate provost for the social sciences, department chair, and graduate director. She also directed the University's Center for Women and Work for five years.

Barbara has served as an expert witness on behalf of several colleges and universities in tenure and promotion cases, sexual harassment, and faculty discipline grievances.

• "Paradigm Shifts: The Legalization of the Institution-Student Relationship" (with Nancy Tribbensee). Presented at the Annual Conference of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, Washington, DC, June 29, 2010.
  
  
• "Recent Court Rulings on Employer Review of Employees' Electronic Messages - Adjustment to Employer Policies Needed," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Client Advisory, June 2010.
  
  
• "Company and its Outside Counsel are Barred from Reading Personal E-Mail Messages Between Employee and Her Attorney," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Client Advisory, April 2010.
  
  
• "Non-Employees Gain Important Protections in New Jersey," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Labor & Employment Bulletin, Winter 2009.
  
  
• "Americans With Disabilities Act Update." Presented at the Conference on Legal Issues in Higher Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 19, 2009.
  
  
• "Diversity on Campus: New Directions and Developments in Law and Policy" (with Jon Alger). Presented at the Conference on Legal Issues in Higher Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 19, 2009.
  
  
• Speaker, "American with Disabilities Act Updates," The University of Vermont's 19th Annual Legal Issues In Higher Education Conference, Burlington, Vermont, October 18 - 19, 2009.
  
  
• Speaker, Preparing for the Employee Free Choice Act, a webinar presented by Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, July 14, 2009.
  
  
• "The Legal Implications of Student Use of Social Networking Sites in the UK and US " (with M.R. Davies). Presentation to the US/UK Roundtable, New College, Oxford University, July, 2009.
  
  
• "New Theories of Institutional Liability for Student Misconduct under Title IX," NACUA 49th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 24 - 27, 2009.
  
  
• "Institutional Liability for Sexual Assault by College Athletes." Annual Conference of the National Association of College & University Attorneys, Toronto, June 2009.
  
  
• "Higher Education Discrimination Law:  ADA, FMLA, EEOC, OCR and More - Essential Updates for College and University Counsel," moderator, NACUA 2009 March CLE Workshop, Tempe, Arizona, March 18 - 20, 2009.
  
  
• "New Liabilities and Policies for Incidental Private Use of Company Electronic Systems and PDAs," co-author, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Labor & Employment Bulletin, Winter 2009.
  
  
• "Higher Education Law and Difficult Faculty Member," presenter, The Anker Department Chair Conference, January 29, 2009.
• "New Liabilities and Policies for Incidental Private Use of Company Electronic Systems and PDAs," co-author, Boston Bar Journal, November/December 2008.
  
  
• "Legal Guide for Student Affairs Professionals," co-author, 2d ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, publication expected December 2008.
  
  
• "Religion in the Classroom: Legal Issues," author, in Miriam R. Diamond, ed., Encountering Faith in the College Classroom. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing LLC, 2008, pp. 105-115.
  
  
• "Student Disability Claims in the U.K. and the U.S.: Does the Jurisprudence Converge?" co-author, Education and the Law (U.K), in press.
  
  
• "College Students with Mental Disabilities: Legal and Policy Issues," co-author, Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 34, 2008, pp. 349-391.
  
  
• "New Liabilities and Policies for Incidental Private Use of Company Electronic Systems and PDA's," co-author, Boston Bar Journal, in press.
  
  
• "Liability for Sexual Assault by College Athletes Under Title IX," author, NACUANote, September, 2008.
  
  
• "Legal Issues in Dealing with Challenging Colleagues," Presenter, Conference on Legal Issues in Higher Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 13, 2008.
  
  
• "Liability for Sexual Assault by Student Athletes," Presenter, Conference on Legal Issues in Higher Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 12, 2008.
  
  
• "Tenure, Faculty Discipline, Academic Freedom, and Litigation by Faculty," Presenter, Spring Continuing Legal Education Conference, National Association of College & University Attorneys, Seattle, WA, March 6, 2008.
  
  
• "Twenty Years of Students' Rights and Campus Discipline: What's Constant, What's Changed, What's Emerging?" Presenter, Annual Conference of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs, Clearwater, FL, February 9, 2008.
  
  
• "Legal Risks Related to the Recruitment and Supervision of College Athletes," speaker, 18th Annual Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference, Burlington, Vermont, October 12 - 14, 2008.
  
  
• "FMLA and New Jersey Paid Family Leave Update: New Responsibilities for Employers," speaker, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Labor & Employment Webinar, September 25, 2008.
  
  
• "Dealing With Religion in the Classroom," Brown Bag Lunch online discussion presented by Chronicle of Higher Education, August 21, 2008.
  
  
• "Legal Issues in Managing the Aging Workforce," presenter, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 6. 2008.
  
  
• "New Jersey Becomes Third State to Enact a Paid Family Leave Act," Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Client Advisory, May 2008.
  
  
• "Student Affairs Overseas," moderator, NACUA's CLE Workshop on "Legal Issues in Organizing and Operating Overseas Programs," April 11, 2008.
  
  
• "Who Are Your Faculty and Staff? Background Checks in Academe," co-author, NACUA, 2008.
  
  
• "Tenure, Faculty Discipline, Academic Freedom and Litigation by Faculty," speaker, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) Spring 2008 CLE Workshop, Seattle, Washington, March 5-7, 2008.
  
  
• "No Confidence Votes," "Professional Ethics Issues for Faculty and Administrators" and "Performance Reviews, Tenure and Promotion for Faculty," speaker, 17th Annual Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference, Burlington, Vermont, October 14 - 16, 2007.
  
  
• "Do You Yahoo®" on the Company's Computer?  E-mail Privacy and the Attorney-Client Privilege," Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Labor & Employment Bulletin, Summer/Fall 2007.
  
  
• Dealing with Faculty with Psychiatric Disorders, speaker at NACUA Annual Conference, June 29, 2007.
  
  
• Academic Freedom and Tenure, speaker at NACUA Annual Conference, June 27, 2007.
  
  
• Big Brother in the Workplace:  Balancing Business Necessity with Employee Privacy, moderator, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 3, 2007.
  
  
• Affirmative Action in Higher Education & Employment, New Jersey Law Center, April 24, 2007.
  
  
• Faculty Issues and the Law in Higher Education, Virtual "Brown Bag" Discussion sponsored by The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2007.
  
  
• "Principles and Practices of Effective Faculty Discipline," co-presenter, Virtual Seminar sponsored by National Association of College and University Attorneys, January 25, 2007.
  
  
• "Who Are You? Fraudulent Credentials and Background Checks in Academe," The Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 32, No. 3, November 2006.
  
  
• "Faculty Discipline: Legal and Policy Issues in Dealing with Faculty Misconduct," co-author, The Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, August 2006.
  
  
• Barbara is a frequent presenter about sexual harassment, academic employment issues, and lawful human resource management practices.
  
  
• Barbara provided sexual harassment training for all New Jersey state court judges in 1996, and provides similar training every year to newly-appointed state and municipal judges.
  
  
• Barbara has published numerous books and articles on the subject of academic employment, discrimination, and labor-management relations.
  
  
• The Law of Higher Education, 3rd Edition, co-author, 1995 and 4th Edition, co-author, 2006.
  
  
• "Employers Should Show Renewed Attention to Background Checks," Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Labor & Employment Bulletin, Fall 2005.
  
  
• "Sexual Harassment," chapter author, New Jersey Labor & Employment Law, published by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2000 & 2001.
  
  
• Academics in Court: The Consequences of Academic Discrimination Litigation, co-author, Michigan Press, 1987.
  
  
• Barbara has chaired the editorial board of the Journal of College and University Law, and is a frequent contributor to that journal. She also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education.

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Barbara recently completed a term as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Outside Activities of Judiciary Employees. Barbara is an avid gardener and is President of the Board of the Princeton Adult School. She has also served as the treasurer of the Princeton Little League.