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The John S. Baerst Award for Excellence in Teaching

John S. Baerst was the Director of the Morin Center from 1996 until 2005.  To honor his memory and years of leadership, the Morin Center has established an award for "excellence in teaching", which will be presented to a deserving faculty member of the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law each year at graduation time.

Professor Baerst joined the faculty of the School of Law in 1996, after many years at Barclays Bank PLC, where he served as general counsel and then as President and CEO of Barclays Bank of New York, NA. Prior to Barclays he practiced corporate and securities law at the New York firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

In the Graduate Program Professor Baerst taught courses in international banking and the resolution of transnational disputes. He noted that “the terrific energy that you find in the financial marketplace has a constant impact on the law of banking and finance. It’s hard to think of another field in which public policy, commerce and law are so closely joined.”

Professor Baerst was an active member of the American Bar Association’s banking law committee. He was also part of the teaching faculty of Banking Law Basics, a semi-annual lecture series sponsored by the Morin Center and the ABA and which he co-founded with former Morin Center Associate Director Edward Lane-Reticker.

According to Morin Center Director Cornelius Hurley, "We are all aware of the huge contribution John made to the Morin Center during almost a decade of leadership." The award is intended to recognize John's deep commitment to the Morin Center and its faculty and students.