Meet Our New Clinical Faculty |
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Prof. Erica J. Suter, pictured, has joined the UB Law faculty as professor of the practice and director of the Innocence Project Clinic, a unique collaboration between the Maryland Office of the Public Defender and the School of Law.
Suter comes to Baltimore Law from private practice, where she has been widely recognized as an accomplished appellate and post-conviction criminal defense attorney. She replaces longtime clinic director Michele Nethercott, who retired earlier this year.
Prof. Melinda Dunmire became professor of the practice and director of the law school’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic earlier this year. Prior to joining the faculty, she was assistant to the Maryland Comptroller, where she provided general counsel on legal and policy matters, monitored federal tax law changes, and led legislative workgroups, among other duties.
Dunmire also has extensive experience as a hearing officer for the Comptroller’s Office and as a guest lecturer on tax matters at law schools and professional organizations.
Prof. Ashley N. Young joined the faculty as the Clinical Legal Writing Professor. Prior to joining UB Law, she was the managing attorney at the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She also worked at D.C.’s Children’s Law Center as a supervising attorney for many years. She now works as director of legal services at the NYC Anti-Violence Project, while teaching clinical legal writing at UB Law part-time.
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Recent Clinic Faculty Scholarship |
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Venable Prof. Michele Gilman, director of the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, was named associate dean for faculty research and development. Over the summer she spoke on "Algorithms and Privacy: When Artificial Intelligence Pushes to Marginality," at the Milan Human Rights Festival; presented a forthcoming chapter in the Cambridge University Press Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and the Law at a symposium hosted by Emory Law School and SMU Dedman School of Law; and spoke at the Partners for Justice Conference (with UB Law Prof. Colin Starger and Prof. Jason Tashea of Georgetown Law) on "Ten Things Every Poverty Lawyer Needs to Know About Technology and the Emerging Digital Welfare Dystopia."
This summer, Starger began a three-year term as associate dean for academic affairs at UB Law.
Last spring, Hatcher contributed to a
three-part investigative series, conducted
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on the exploitive practices of social welfare agencies charged with caring for abused and neglected children.
Prof. Jaime Lee, pictured, director of the Community Development Clinic, presented on two panels at the April AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education: "Water Justice" and "Teaching 1619." In June she presented "Deep Learning Through Metacognition" at the Emory University School of Law's Center for Transactional Law and Practice Biennial Conference.
Lee also presented "The Regulation of the Lives of Public Housing Residents" at Fordham's Cooper-Walsh Colloquium in October, and she was a moderator and panelist on "Land Access and Use" at a May 2021 Convening for State Legislators.
In addition to co-organizing the conference and moderating panels, Johnson presented her article, Asking the Menstruation Question to Achieve Menstrual Justice, which is forthcoming in the Col. J. Gender & L.
Other recent articles of Johnson's include Menstrual Dignity and the Bar Exam, 55 UC Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021) (with Elizabeth B. Cooper & Marcy L. Karin), and Title IX and Menstruation, 43 Harvard J.L. & Gender 225 (2020) (with Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman).
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Clinical Law Program News |
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In its second semester at Baltimore Law, the Legal Data & Design Clinic (LDDC) focused on applying data science to reveal structural inequalities in the criminal legal system and help advocate for change. Major projects led by LDDC student-attorneys include one study documenting unjustified incarceration in Baltimore City’s DV/IPV docket, and another exposing extreme racial disparities in Charles County, Md., criminal charges.
Both studies, as well as testimony produced in favor of a bill seeking to end suspension of drivers' licenses for failure to pay child support arrearages, can be found on the research page of the LDDC website, which was designed and is maintained by clinic students. The clinic is directed by Associate Dean Colin Starger, pictured, and clinical teaching fellow Alexandra Smith.
The Maryland General Assembly recently awarded a $250,000 grant to be shared by the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, its counterpart at the University of Maryland Carey Law, and Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, to offer assistance in tax cases where there is an issue only at the state level.
Student-attorneys in the tax clinic successfully litigated against an assessment issued to one of its clients for tax due of $10,280.00. The IRS ultimately withdrew the assessment in its entirety.
The clinic also completed negotiation of multiple Offer in Compromise
agreements with the IRS, eliminating
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client debt of approximately $97,910.00.
The clinic helped a client recover back welfare benefits after the Department of Social Services failed to screen her for domestic violence, thereby limiting her eligibility for benefits.
CAC represented three claimants in an appeal before the Board of Appeals of the Maryland Department of Labor on a novel issue of unemployment insurance law arising during the pandemic.
They won a service connection for prostate cancer at 100 percent for a veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange at the Korean DMZ in the late 1960s.
They also won a hard-fought remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in a complicated case involving the effects of Agent Orange exposure and the residuals of severe malaria in Vietnam.
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Meet Our 2021-22 Clinical Teaching Fellows |
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Our clinical law program offers a three-year rigorous clinical teacher-training program. Our fellows supervise student attorneys, teach clinical seminars and engage in scholarship. Our former fellows have gone on to full-time teaching positions at other law schools.
Joining current fellows Katy Clemens, Veryl Pow, Alexandra Smith, Jessica Den Houter, Emily Poor and Sakinah Tillman are Jacqueline Bradley-Chacon, in the Immigrant Rights Clinic, and Sarah Gottlieb, pictured, in the Innocence Project Clinic.
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University of Baltimore School of Law
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