Monthly Archives: August 2016

Professor John Bessler contributed an essay today to the Brookings Institution’s Medium blog. The essay, “The American Death Penalty: a changing legal landscape,” begins: “The death penalty has long been a fixture of the world’s laws. In Draco’s Athenian code, … Continue reading →

Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Watts (standing at microphone at right) administers the oath Tuesday morning to 77 student-attorneys who will take part in the UB School of Law’s clinical program this semester. The law school now has 13 … Continue reading →

Myshala Middleton, J.D. ’10, was featured in an Aug. 16 Baltimore Sun article and video about dog owners who dine out with their four-footed friends. Middleton, an assistant attorney general in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, recently adopted an eight-year-old … Continue reading →

Professor Charles Tiefer has had a busy week and it’s only Tuesday. Tiefer was quoted in a front-page Washington Post article, “Inside the administration’s $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers” (Sunday, Aug. 14). Tiefer, who served on the … Continue reading →

Robert S. Pomerance, counsel to the chief judge of the U.S. Tax Court from 1992 to 2011 and an adjunct law professor at the University of Baltimore, died June 23, 2016. Pomerance, who also served as an adjunct at several … Continue reading →

The new Pretrial Justice Clinic was highlighted in a Daily Record story, “New law school courses, clinics delve into criminal justice issues” (Aug. 15). The clinic, led by Professor Colin Starger and clinical fellow Zina Makar, will focus on reforming … Continue reading →

A new book edited by Professor John Bessler is the focus of an Aug. 10 National Law Journal article by Marcia Coyle, J.D. ’86, the magazine’s chief Washington correspondent. The book, Against the Death Penalty, includes Justice Stephen Breyer’s dissent in … Continue reading →

Professor J. Amy Dillard took part in a discussion Friday on WYPR-FM’s “Midday” program, which examined the U.S. Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department released this week. In particular, the discussion focused on the Justice Department’s conclusion … Continue reading →

Venable Professor of Law Michele Gilman is quoted at length in SELF magazine in an Aug. 5 article about LARCs, or long-acting reversible contraceptives. The news peg for the article is the recent $2 million donation by two philanthropic organizations … Continue reading →

Professor José Anderson contributed an Aug. 3 op-ed to The AFRO about last week’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that invalidated a North Carolina voter law enacted by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The lawmakers … Continue reading →