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Caitlin Barry is a Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, serving as Co-Director of the Community Interpreter Internship Program and Director of the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic since 2015. She joined the Villanova faculty in 2012 as a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow and has pioneered clinical programs focused on immigrant worker justice through civil litigation and community partnerships.
Her educational background includes:
- JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law (2007)
- BA from New College of Florida (2001)
Professor Barry's work centers on intersectional justice through movement lawyering, addressing systemic oppression at the crossroads of immigration enforcement, criminal justice, and labor exploitation. Her research emphasizes community-led resistance against carceral systems, with particular focus on farmworker rights, surveillance technologies, and driver's license access. She develops clinical frameworks that center subordinated communities' leadership in reimagining justice.
Her 2019-2025 publications reveal consistent thematic evolution from foundational diversity analysis in legal education toward urgent documentation of ICE operations and sanctuary movement strategies. The corpus demonstrates methodological integration of academic scholarship, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing, with increasing emphasis on technological surveillance impacts and economic justice frameworks.
Her professional recognition includes:
- Beth Cross Memorial Award for Public Interest Service
- Leonard Sigal Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Criminal Law
Through the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic, Barry mentors law students in direct representation of agricultural workers while collaborating with community organizations on systemic advocacy. Her leadership extends to national organizations as former co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association and board member of the Society of American Law Teachers, where she advances antiracist clinical pedagogy.
The Farmworker Clinic operates as a nexus for community lawyering, partnering with grassroots groups to challenge immigrant detention, develop counter-surveillance strategies, and combat exploitative labor conditions through integrated litigation-organizing approaches.
