Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Bayern graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in May 2006. He was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review and received the Thelen Marrin Prize for Academic Achievement, given annually at graduation to the student with the strongest academic record. In Spring 2006 he co-taught a seminar on contract-law theory with Professor Melvin A. Eisenberg. He received his BS in Computer Science from Yale University in 1999.
Prior to arriving at Duke as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he was a law clerk for Judge Harris L Hartz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. From June to August 2006, he worked at the Office of the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice. He has also served at the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division in United States Department of Justice, as a summer associate to a Washington law firm, and as an extern for Judge Saundra B. Armstrong, United States District Court for the Northen District of California in Oakland.
Before his legal career, Professor Bayern worked in computing research at Yale University. There, he developed the Central Authentication Service (CAS), a software framework for computer security which has been adopted worldwide by many universities (including some parts of Duke). He also served the Java Community Process on “expert groups” responsible for developing programming languages like JSP, and he wrote several books and articles related to computer programming.
Professor Bayern’s research focuses on common-law issues and the workings of courts. His student comment on American litigation was published in the California Law Review in 2005, and he currently has manuscripts in progress on contract law, applied jurisprudence, and moral theory.