Steven M. Barkan
Professor of Law
E-mail: smbarkan@wisc.edu
Telephone: 262-1151
Office: Room 6358, Law School
Education:
J.D., Cleveland State University
A.M.L.S., University of Michigan
Teaching Areas:
Torts
Research Interests:
Legal Research
Legal Education
Torts
Products Liability
Biography
Steve Barkan came to the UW Law School as the Director of the Law Library in 1995. In addition to administering the Law Library and the Law School's Information Technology services, Professor Barkan teaches tort law to first year students. He is the director of the Law School's summer study abroad program in Giessen, Germany, and he directs the Law School's exchange programs with law schools in Chile, Peru, and Brazil.
Prior to coming to the Law School, Professor Barkan was on the faculty of the Marquette University Law School, where he served as Director of the Law Library, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean, and taught legal ethics and workers' compensation law, among other subjects. In 1993, he was the recipient of the first Excellence in Academic Law Librarianship Award sponsored by the West Publishing Company. Professor Barkan also has served as the Associate Law Librarian at the University of Texas School of Law, a research librarian for the Supreme Court of the United States, and a reference librarian at the University of Southern California Law Library. He practiced personal injury and workers' compensation law in Ohio for six years and is a member of the Wisconsin and Ohio bars.
Professor Barkan is the primary author (with the late Roy M. Mersky and the late Donald J. Dunn) of Fundamentals of Legal Research. In 1992, he was the founding editor of Perspectives, a journal devoted to teaching legal research and writing in law schools.
Professor Barkan has two children: Davida, age 20, and Daniel, age 18. Davida graduated from the Milwaukee High School of the Arts and is a junior at Harvard University. Daniel is a senior at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee. Professor Barkan's interests include reading all sorts of things, movies, music, baseball, and travel.
