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APRIL M. BARTON
April Mara Barton is Dean and Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University where she
has recently been appointed to a third term and named as the inaugural recipient of the Dean John J. Sciullo Award for
Distinguished Academic Leadership. Barton currently teaches in the areas of AI Law & Policy and Law & Leadership.
She has previously taught courses in administrative law, computer law, and the First Amendment. In addition to her book,
Best Practices for Building a High-Tech Law School, published by the American Bar Association, Dean Barton’s work has
been published in law reviews including the Washington University Law Review, Baylor Law Review, and the Minnesota
Journal of Law, Science and Technology. She is a frequent speaker and has presented and moderated discussions on
artificial intelligence, teaching leadership in law school, innovations in law school teaching, distance learning, technology,
and classrooms of the future. Barton has testified before the U.S. Congressional Commission on Online Child Protection in
Washington D.C. and the European Commission for Democracy through Law, Venice Commission, in Brussels.
She previously held various positions, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at Villanova University Charles Widger
School of Law. Barton served as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in the
Division of Marketing Practices, where she worked on policy and law enforcement issues related to internet fraud and
deception.
She received her B.S. in Physics, with honors, from Moravian University in 1993, and her J.D. from Villanova University School
of Law in 1996, where she received the Herman Mitchell Schwartz Award for advancement of women in the legal profession.
