University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Mark Berger Oliver H. Dean Peer Professor of Law; B.A. (Columbia University); J.D. (Yale University) email 816-235-2374 Class Links Professor Berger received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1966 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1969. From 1969 to 1971, he worked as legal adviser for the New Haven Police Department. Subsequently, he was appointed Executive Director of Pretrial Services in New Haven. Professor Berger joined the law faculty in 1973, teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Labor Law. His publications include "Taking the Fifth: The Supreme Court and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination" (1980), co-authorship of "Missouri Criminal Practice and Procedure" (1986), and author and chapter editor of "The Law of Discipline and Discharge". Professor Berger has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London in 1981 and 1989, and at the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research in 1999. In 2005 he was a Research Visitor at the European Court of Human Rights and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. He has also been a consultant to the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration's Speedy Trial Project and the Uniform Law Commissioners Sentencing and Corrections Code Project. Professor Berger was named a U.K.C. Fellow in 1986, and won the Law School Brenner Publication Award in 2000. He is also a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, as well as the labor arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Professor Berger has taught Criminal Law and Procedure, Public Defender Trial Clinic, Public Defender Appeals Clinic, Labor Law, Arbitration Law, and Employment Law. You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=85423