Esther S. Barron

Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center

Biography

Esther Barron is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center. She is an expert in the fields of venture capital, early-stage financing and entrepreneurship.

In the clinical program, she works with students to represent start-ups, more mature companies and social entrepreneurs in a variety of transactional matters. In addition to her clinical work, her other courses include Entrepreneurship Law,  Venture Capital and Early Stage Financing, Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital and The Real Deal in the San Francisco Immersion Program. 

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Areas of Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business Associations
  • Clinical Teaching

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Accidental Founders: The Race from Class Project to Start-Up, 25 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 86 (2020) (Co-authored by: Darren Green).
  • A Closer Look at Distance Learning: The Law and the Entrepreneur MOOC, 19 Lewis & Clark Law Review 395 (2015) (Co-authored by: Stephen F. Reed).
  • Experiencing Business Associations in the Classroom, 59 Saint Louis University Law Journal 787 (2015).
  • Entrepreneurship Law: Cases and Materials (2013) (Co-authored by: Stephen F. Reed).

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Education

  • BA, Brandeis University
  • JD, Northwestern University

Prior Appointments

  • Harry B. Reese Teaching Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Hochberg Family Director, Small Business Opportunity Center, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Associate, Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz
  • Associate, Peterson & Ross

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