Professor Robert Burns - Biography
Robert P. Burns is Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law in
the Northwestern Program on Advocacy and Professionalism. He teaches courses in
professional responsibility, evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure and
administrative procedure. In 1996, 1998 and 2002, he was voted the Robert
Childress Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. He has been voted the
Outstanding Professor of a Small Class and received a Dean's Teaching Award. He
has been both the Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professor and the Stanford Clinton, Sr.
Research Professor. He received his A.B. degree Magna Cum Laude from Fordham
University in 1969. He received his J.D. in 1974 from the University of Chicago
Law School and a Ph.D. with honors from the University of Chicago with a
concentration in the philosophy of law and in logic.
