Faculty News

  • Commencement
    Commencement 2012
    Renowned jurist Judge Jack B. Weinstein and R.I. Supreme Court Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg will be awarded honorary degrees on Friday, May 18.
  • Margulies on Weapons in Stuffed Toy
    Professor Peter Margulies discusses the issues facing airport security officials when they found a gun and ammunition hidden in stuffed animals at T.F. Green Airport.
  • Woonsocket monument
    Goldstein on Church & State
    Professor Jared Goldstein was a guest on WPRO's Buddy Cianci Show, discussing constitutional challenges to a 90-year-old World War I memorial in Woonsocket.


Barbara Hurst

Barbara Hurst
Adjunct Professor of Law
Attorney at Law

Barbara Hurst is the Deputy Public Defender for the Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender.  Before her appointment to that position, she was the Chief Appellate Attorney in that office, arguing hundreds of cases before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.