Mark Barenberg

Sen. Mark Barenberg is one of the country’s leading professors of labor law and a longtime teacher of constitutional law. He has been on the Columbia faculty since 1987, and is currently the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and the director of Columbia’s Program on Political Economy and Labor Law. He was chosen professor of the year for excellence in teaching by the law school’s Student Senate. He has served as a visiting professor at Yale; has taught at the Universities of Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Cologne, and Amsterdam; and co-directs and teaches in the Columbia Summer Program in U.S. Law, held each summer in the Netherlands. Since 2015, he has held the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Barenberg has degrees from Harvard College (summa cum laude), the London School of Economics (highest honors), and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where he served on the Harvard Law Review. Prior to teaching at Columbia, he taught international political economy and labor history in Harvard’s Social Studies program, and then practiced for four years in the fields of constitutional law, labor law, and international law at the firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Krinsky and Lieberman.