Bradley Baranowski

Brad Baranowski will join SMU Dedman School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law in Fall 2026. An award-winning teacher, Professor Baranowski’s teaching and research focus on Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Statutory Interpretation. His scholarship examines how courts manage themselves and other courts and how those institutional choices shape litigants’ substantive rights and the allocation of authority among the branches of government.

Trained as an intellectual historian, Professor Baranowski brings an interdisciplinary perspective to his teaching and scholarship. His work has appeared in the Boston University Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, and Modern Intellectual History, among other journals, and popular outlets like The Nation.

Before joining SMU, Professor Baranowski was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law. He entered the legal academy after practicing at Jones Day, where he focused on appellate and complex civil litigation. He served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center during the Court’s October 2022 Term, researching judicial rulemaking, complex litigation, and appellate procedure. He previously clerked for the Honorable David A. Lowy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Baranowski earned a PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a JD, summa cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, and a BA, summa cum laude, with University Honors and Distinction in history from Kent State University.