University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
University of Minnesota, J.D.
Harvard University, Ph.D.
Professor Barry C. Feld is a one of the nation's leading scholars of juvenile justice. He teaches criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts, and education and law. In 1990, Professor Feld was named the Law School's first Centennial Professor of Law. He was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law for 1981-82.
Professor Feld received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from Harvard University, where he was a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow in Law and the Social Sciences. In 1972, he joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty. In 1974 and 1978, he served as Assistant Hennepin County Attorney in the Criminal and Juvenile Divisions.
In 1987, Professor Feld was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Juvenile Justice sponsored by the United States Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He was a Reporter for the American Bar Association-Institute of Judicial Administration Juvenile Justice Standards Project and was a member of the Minnesota Department of Corrections Special Committee on Serious Juvenile Offenders. He also served on the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Task Force, the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Legal Representation of Juveniles, the Minnesota Juvenile Justice Task Force, and as Co-Reporter for the Minnesota Supreme Court's Juvenile Court Rules Advisory Committee. Professor Feld is a member of the American Law Institute.
Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration (West Group, 2000; Thomson/West, 2d ed., 2004; West, 3d ed., 2009) (Supps. 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell (Thomson/West Publishing, 1st ed., 2003; 2d ed., 2009)
Teacher's Manual to Accompany Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration (West Publishing, 1st ed., 2000; 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2009)
Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford University Press, 1999) (recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2002 Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology)
Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Oxford University Press, 1999) (editor)
Justice for Children: The Right to Counsel and the Juvenile Court (Northeastern University Press, 1993)
Law and Society: Sociological Perspectives on Criminal Law (Little, Brown & Company, 1983) (with James Inverarity & Pat Lauderdale)
Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, in The Delinquent Girl 225 (Margaret A. Zahn, ed., Temple University Press, 2009)
The Inherent Tension of Social Welfare and Criminal Social Control: Policy Lessons From the American Juvenile Court Experience, in Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems (Eric Jensen & Jørgen Jepsen, eds., Hart Publishing, 2006)
Race and the Changing Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice: A Tale in Two Parts, 1950-2000, in Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice (Darnell Hawkins & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Juveniles' Waiver of Legal Rights: Confessions, Miranda, and the Right to Counsel, in Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (Thomas Grisso & Robert Schwartz, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Legislative Exclusion of Offenses from Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: A History and Critique, in The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court 83 (Jeffrey Fagan & Franklin Zimring, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2000)
The Juvenile Court, in Handbook of Justice Research in Law (Joseph Sanders & V. Lee Hamilton, eds., Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 2000)
Rehabilitation, Retribution, and Restorative Justice: Alternative Conceptions of the Juvenile Court, in Restorative Juvenile Justice: Repairing the Harm of Youth Crime (Lode Walgrave & Gordon Bazemore, eds., Criminal Justice Press, 1999)
The Juvenile Court, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
The Social Context of Juvenile Justice Administration: Racial Disparities in an Urban Juvenile Court, in Minorities in Juvenile Justice (Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Carl Pope & William Feyerherm, eds., Sage Publications, 1995)
Criminalizing the Juvenile Court: A Juvenile Justice Research Agenda for the 1990's, in Juvenile Justice and Public Policy: Toward a National Agenda (Ira Schwartz, ed., Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992)
Journal Articles
Violent Girls or Relabeled Status Offenders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Data, 55 Crime & Delinquency 241 (2009)
A Slower Form of Death: Implications of Roper v. Simmons for Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole, 22 Notre Dame Journal Law, Ethics & Public Policy 9 (2008) (lead article, Symposium on Youth and Law)
Unmitigated Punishment: Adolescent Criminal Responsibility and LWOP Sentences, 10 Journal of Law & Family Studies 11 (2007) (Distinguished Lecture, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law)
The Constitutional Tension Between Apprendi and McKeiver: Sentence Enhancements Based on Delinquency Convictions and the Quality of Justice in Juvenile Courts, 38 Wake Forest Law Review 1111 (2003)
Race, Youth Violence, and the Changing Jurisprudence of Waiver, 19 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 3 (2001)
The Back-Door to Prison: Waiver Reform, "Blended Sentencing," and the Law of Unintended Consequences, 91 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 997 (2001) (with Marcy Podkopacz)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Centennary: Social Structure, Race, and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court, 1 Punishment & Society 187 (1999)
The Honest Politician's Guide to Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 564 Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 10 (1999)
The End of the Line: An Empirical Study of Judicial Waiver, 86 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 449 (1996), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) (with Marcy Rasmussen Podkopacz)
Criminalizing the American Juvenile Court, 17 Crime & Justice: A Review of Research 197 (1993), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
Juvenile (In) Justice and the Criminal Court Alternative, 39 Crime & Delinquency 403 (1993), reprinted in The Juvenile Court: Dynamic, Dysfunctional, or Dead? (Center for the Study of Youth Policy, 1993), in Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective (Ralph Weisheit & Robert Culbertson, eds., Waveland, 4th ed., 2000), in Criminal Courts for the 21st Century (Lisa Stolzenberg & Stewart D'Alessio, eds., Prentice Hall, 1st ed., 1999; 2d ed., 2002), and in Essential Readings in Juvenile Justice (David Parry, ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005)
Justice by Geography: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Variations in Juvenile Justice Administration, 82 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 156 (1991), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) and in Essential Readings in Juvenile Justice (David Parry, ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005)
The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: An Empirical Study of When Lawyers Appear and the Difference They Make, 79 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1185 (1989), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
In re: Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court, 34 Crime & Delinquency 393 (1988), reprinted in Exploring Delinquency: Causes and Control (Dean Rojek & Gary Jensen, eds., Roxbury Publishing Company, 1995) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
The Juvenile Court Meets the Principle of Offense: Punishment, Treatment, and the Difference It Makes, 68 Boston University Law Review 821 (1988), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
The Juvenile Court Meets the Principle of the Offense: Legislative Changes in Juvenile Waiver Statutes, 78 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 471 (1987)
Criminalizing Juvenile Justice: Rules of Procedure for the Juvenile Court, 69 Minnesota Law Review 141 (1984), reprinted in Criminal Justice Policy Making: Federal Roles and Processes (Barbara Ann Stolz, ed., Praeger, 2002)
A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure and Inmate Subcultures in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders, 27 Crime & Delinquency 336 (1981), reprinted in The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency (Ronald J. Berger, ed., Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1991) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
Juvenile Court Legislative Reform and the Serious Young Offender: Dismantling the "Rehabilitative Ideal", 65 Minnesota Law Review 167 (1981)
Legislative Policies Toward the Serious Juvenile Offender: On the Virtues of Automatic Adulthood, 27 Crime & Delinquency 497 (1981)
Reference of Juvenile Offenders for Adult Prosecution: The Legislative Alternative to Asking Unanswerable Questions, 62 Minnesota Law Review 515 (1978)
Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2008) (with Margaret Zahn & others)
The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court:
Fulfilling Gault's Promise (Center for the Study of Youth Policy, University of Michigan, School of Social Work; Center for the Study of Youth Policy, Florida Atlantic University, 1989)
Standards Relating to Rights of Minors (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1980)(standards recommended by the IJA-ABA Joint Commission on Juvenile Justice Standards; approved by the House of Delegates, American Bar Association, 1979) (reporter) (with Robert Levy)
Book Reviews & Review Essays
Book Review, 23 Contemporary Sociology 710 (1994) (reviewing Barry Krisberg & James S. Austin, Reinventing Juvenile Justice (Sage Publications, 1993))
Book Review, 26 Sociology 91 (1988) (reviewing Victor L. Streib, Death Penalty for Juveniles (Indiana University Press, 1987))
Entries in Reference Works
Juvenile Justice, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David Tannehaus, editor in chief, MacMillan Reference USA, 2008)
Juveniles in the Adult System, in Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (Joshua Dressler, editor in chief, Macmillan Reference USA, 2d ed., 2002)
The Juvenile Court: History and Philosophy, in Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (Joshua Dressler, editor in chief, Macmillan Reference USA, 2d ed., 2002)
Other Publications
Abolish the Juvenile Court: Affirming Personal Responsibility, 2 Juvenile Justice Update 1 (1996)
Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice Policy, Minnesota Law Alumni News 16 (1996)
Violent Youth and Public Policy: Minnesota Juvenile Justice Task Force and 1994 Legislative Reform, 64 Hennepin Lawyer 20 (1994)
The Legal Responses to the "Hard-core" Juvenile--The Offender or the Offense?, in The Serious Juvenile Offender: Proceedings of a National Symposium Held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 19 and 20, 1977 (National Office of Social Responsibility, ed., Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1978)
