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Justice
Barry R. Schaller
Justice Barry R. Schaller was
born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 23, 1938. He
received his B.A. degree from Yale College in 1960 and his
J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1963. He was engaged in the
private practice of law with Bronson & Rice, Attorneys, in
New Haven, CT from 1963 to 1974. During that period, he
served on the Connecticut Board of Pardons from 1971-74
(Chair 1973-74) and on the Connecticut Planning Committee
for Criminal Administration. He also served as Co-Counsel to
the House Minority Leader during the 1969 session of the
General Assembly. He was appointed to the Connecticut trial
bench in 1974. After serving for more than eighteen years on
the trial bench, he was appointed to the Appellate Court in
1992. Justice Schaller was appointed to the Supreme Court in
August 2007.
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Justice Schaller, who has taught and lectured widely, regularly teaches
courses on law, literature, and jurisprudence to state court judges. He
also teaches on the adjunct clinical faculty of the Yale Law School and
is an Associate Fellow at Branford College, Yale University. He is a
Visiting Lecturer at Wesleyan University and Trinity College, where he
teaches courses in Bioethics, Public Health law and ethics,
bioterrorism, human research ethics, and the law. He has been a Visiting
Lecturer at Yale University and a Guggenheim Fellow at the Yale Law
School and an Adjunct Professor at Quinnipiac Law School.
Justice Schaller is the author of numerous scholarly
articles on a wide variety of legal topics including the law of
bioethics, public health law and ethics law and the humanities,
constitutional law, complex case management, and the problem of violence
in American society. His first book, A Vision of American Law: Judging
Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell, published in 1997, was
selected to receive the 1997 Quinnipiac Law School Book Award for
excellence. His second book, Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The
Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology, was
published in 2007. He serves as Co-Chairperson of the Advisory
Committee on Appellate Rules. Justice Schaller has been elected a
Charter Life Fellow of the
Connecticut Bar Foundation, and a member of the American
Law Institute. In May, 2008, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws
degree from the Quinnipiac University School of Law.
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