Monthly Archives: April 2017

Dan Rodricks’s April 26 Baltimore Sun column, “Pain, anger and a plea for parole,” described an open parole hearing for Carleana Kirby, a client of UB’s Juvenile Justice Project. Kirby was 15 in 1998 when, during a botched robbery of … Continue reading →

Zina Makar, clinical fellow and co-director of the Pretrial Justice Clinic, has been named the Public Interest Lawyer of the Year by the Bar Association of Baltimore City. (See news release here.) In a message to UB law faculty and … Continue reading →

Less than a year after he was freed from prison, where he spent nearly 18 years for a murder he did not commit, Malcolm Jabbar Bryant died of a stroke a few weeks shy of his 43rd birthday. Bryant died … Continue reading →

Professor Nienke Grossman, deputy director of UB’s Center for International and Comparative Law, been named to an independent panel that will assess six nominees competing for three positions on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission, established in 1959, is … Continue reading →

Associate Dean Christopher J. (C.J.) Peters has been selected as the next dean of the University of Akron School of Law. The Ohio university announced in a news release Wednesday that its board of trustees had approved the appointment and … Continue reading →

Yale law professor and author James Forman Jr. will discuss his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, on Monday evening at UB’s John and Frances Angelos Law Center. Monday, April 17, 2017 7-9 p.m. … Continue reading →

Click here or on the image above to RSVP for the Journal of International Law‘s discussion about efforts to expand the definition of sex trafficking in Maryland. Thursday, April 13, 2017 6 to 9 p.m. 12th floor John and Frances … Continue reading →

This past weekend, 80 UB School of Law students and law Professor Donald Stone participated in the 34th Annual UVA Law Softball Tournament in Charlottesville, Va. Eighty-four law school teams participated. UB fielded three teams: blue, green and gray. Check … Continue reading →

Seven student fellows from UB’s Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) traveled to Greece over spring break to work with Advocates Abroad, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal advice to refugees and asylum seekers. A presentation about the … Continue reading →

Mary Ellen Barbera, chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, gave the keynote address at the University of Baltimore School of Law’s 90th commencement ceremony on Monday, May 15, 2017. Watch the commencement ceremony. Read the commencement program. The … Continue reading →