Yvette M. Barksdale
Associate Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.987.2388
E-mail: 7barksda@jmls.edu

BA, Oberlin College
JD, Yale University

Before teaching at John Marshall, Professor Barksdale practiced with Carter, Ledyard and Milburn in New York City and taught legal writing at University of Bridgeport School of Law and IIT/ Chicago-Kent College of Law. Before law school, Professor Barksdale developed CAD-CAM software for General Motors.

Professor Barksdale's scholarship focus is governmental value selection. She has presented her scholarship nationally and served as a research consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a committee vice-chair of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. She also writes a quarterly Recent Articles of Interest column for that Section's Administrative and Regulatory Law News.

Professor Barksdale has been a board member of the Black Women Lawyer's Association of Greater Chicago, receiving their President's Award for Outstanding Service in 1993. She has served with the Chicago Scholars of Color, on committees of the Alliance of Justice, the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women, and on the planning committee for the American Association of Law Schools Midwest Region Equal Justice Colloquium. She chaired the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. 

Professor Barksdale joined the faculty in 1989. She teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and a Law and Diversity Seminar.