Barbara Glesner Fines

Barbara Glesner Fines is a professor of law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law in Kansas City, where she teaches courses on professional responsibility, ethical issues in the representation of families, family law, family violence, poverty law, entrepreneurial lawyering, solo and small firm practice, legal aid externship and family court clerkship. She is also associate dean for Faculty Development and co-director of the university's Family Law Program. Prior to arriving at UMKC, Prof. Fines taught courses at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and she has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign College of Law, University of Iowa College of Law, University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Law and the Council for Legal Educational Opportunity. She has authored or co-authored several publications, including Ethical Issues in Family Representation and Professional Responsibility: A Collaborative Approach, and has published articles in several law reviews. Prof. Fines received her undergraduate degree in 1980 from Grand Valley State University, her J.D. cum laude in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin  - Madison School of Law, where she was assistant managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review, and her LL.M. in 1986 from Yale University Law School, where she was senior editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.