About Royce de R. Barondes

Royce Barondes is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, where he taught Business Organizations, Contracts and Firearms Law before his retirement.

After his graduation from St. Paul’s School, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he first enrolled in a graduate class at the age of seventeen and was subsequently awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering. Following receipt of a J.D. from the University of Virginia, he was an associate for 6-1/2 years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, in New York City, where his practice emphasized representing investment banks in securities offerings.

He has authored or co-authored over twenty law review works, in journals such as the Fordham Law Review, the George Mason Law Review and the UC Davis Law Review. His research has primarily focused on corporate law and contract law governing corporate transactions, with some emphasis on initial public offerings and the use of empirical techniques. His research has recently expanded to include the Second Amendment and the regulation of firearms possession.

Before joining the MU faculty, he taught in the business schools of the University of Georgia and Louisiana State University.

Educational Background

• BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '82
• MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '82
• JD, University of Virginia, '85

Recent Publications

• Guns, Vices and Freedom, Oh My: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation
  8 BUSINESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TAX LAW REVIEW 1 (2024)
• Red-Flag Laws, Civilian Firearms Ownership and Measures of Freedom
  35 REGENT UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 339 (2022-2023).
• Selections from The Civil Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Federal and Missouri Perspectives (2023 Edition)