Michael Barrett, deputy general counsel to the governor of Missouri, will give a presentation at 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 19, in the Student Union, Room 340I.
Barrett, a 1996 graduate of UNC Charlotte, is the author of “The Keeler Principle.” Published in 2009, the novel is based in part on a class he took as an undergraduate.
A graduate of the Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he was commentary editor-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Medicine, Barrett also completed post-graduate work in the Arabic language from the U.S. Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif.
In addition to his current role as a senior legal advisor to Gov. Jay Nixon, Barrett ran statewide criminal justice programming under New York governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. He also served on Gov. Paterson’s Economic Recovery and Revitalization Cabinet and was a gubernatorial appointee on the Advisory Council on Interactive Media and Youth Violence. He was counsel to the New York Commission on Sentencing Reform and a legal counsel to the New York State Legislature on criminal justice and health care issues.
The UNC Charlotte Pre-law Society is sponsoring this free, public event.