Ben Barnett
Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: January 26, 2024
Ben Barnett is an appellate court attorney with the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District.
Before taking on this role, Barnett represented tenants facing eviction actions as a senior staff attorney at Inner City Law Center, a nonprofit law firm in Los Angeles. He also previously practiced civil litigation at a law firm in Chicago, and served as a judicial law clerk at the Idaho Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Barnett received a JD and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago, and a BA in psychology and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law, Barnett teaches a course introducing the structure and operations of, as well as the methodologies employed within, the U.S. legal system.
