What a year (and not in a good way)! The tragic COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of everyday life, including the delivery of legal education. Since the coronavirus reared its ugly head last spring, almost all classes and other activities at The University of Baltimore School of Law have taken place online. But the hard-working faculty, staff and students at our law school rose to the challenge, and the work of our law school endured. We continue to train the next generation of excellent, ethical, successful lawyers in Baltimore and beyond.
Now, we cautiously look ahead to the post-pandemic world. Our “coming out day” will be June 19, when we host an in-person, albeit socially distanced, commencement ceremony at Towson University’s SECU Arena. I can’t wait to see our graduates walk across the stage in their robes and hoods. I may not be able to shake hands with them, but I will offer deep bows of respect – and maybe a few fist bumps.
By the start of the fall semester, we expect to be fully back home in our fabulous law school building. At that time we’ll welcome several new faculty colleagues; you can read about them in this newsletter. These additions to the outstanding Baltimore Law faculty demonstrate that our law school grows stronger every year. I’m prouder than ever to serve as dean of this amazingly resilient institution. -- Ronald Weich
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Gilda Daniels, above, has been promoted to full professor. ... Hugh McClean, director of The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic, was promoted to associate professor, with tenure. ... Tenure was awarded to Robert Knowles, associate professor.
Prof. Dionne Koller, associate dean for academic affairs and director of the Center for Sport and the Law, has been named co-chair of the Commission on the State of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. ... Prof. Kimberly Wehle received the 2020 University of Maryland System Board of Regents Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship.
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Prof. Daniel Hatcher's work fighting systematic exploitation of the poor was included in three investigative series this past year: the HBO docuseries "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez," the NBC docuseries "Children That Pay," and the NPR/Marshall Project investigative series on states that financially exploit foster children. ... In March 2021, Prof. Nienke Grossman, co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, was elected for a three-year term to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). She is currently serving a three-year term as co-chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group of ASIL, through 2022.
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Melinda Dunmire, lower left, will be director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. Zina Makar, lower right, will teach Criminal Law.
In addition, Marta Baffy will join the Baltimore Law faculty as Director of Academic Success and professor of the practice. Welcome, all!
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Prof. Hugh McClean's article, "Discharged and Discarded: The Collateral Consequences of a Less Than Honorable Military Discharge," will appear in a forthcoming issue of Colum. L. Rev. ... Prof. Margaret E. Johnson, associate dean for experiential learning, has co-authored "Menstrual Dignity for Bar Examinees," 55 U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021). ... Prof. Phillip J. Closius published "Myth, Manipulation and Minor League Baseball: How a Capitalist Democracy Engenders Income Inequality,"in 89 U. Cin. L. Rev. 84 (October 2020). ... Prof. Barbara Babb co-authored Benchbook for Family Courts on Substance Use Disorders, Second Edition (2021). ... Prof. Steven P. Grossman's book, Plea Bargaining Made Real, is forthcoming in June 2021 from Carolina Academic Press.
Prof. Michele E. Gilman contributed a chapter, "Feminism, Privacy & Law in Cyberspace," to The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Oxford U. Press, forthcoming 2021). ... Prof. Max Stul Oppenheimer published an article, "Truth," in 10 Harvard Bus. L. R. 1 (2021). ... Prof. Fred B. Brown and Prof. Walter Schwidetzky co-wrote the second edition of Understanding Business Entity Taxation, (Carolina Academic Press 2021).
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Prof. Jose Anderson, at right, wrote "Urban Trauma Drama: The Intersecting Path of Criminal Justice and Public Health Revealed During the Covid-19 Pandemic," forthcoming in 14 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y (2021). ... Prof. Robert Knowles published "Torture and Institutional Design" in 130 Yale L. J. Forum 249 (2020). ... Prof. Mortimer Sellers wrote the chapter, "The Universalism of International Law," in Tipping Points in International Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
Prof. Sheldon Bernard Lyke's chapter, "Can Affirmative Action Offer a Lesson in Fighting Enclosure?" will appear inThe Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021). ... Prof. Donald Stone's article, "David v. Goliath: Due Process Hearings and the Uphill Battle Parents of Disabled Students Face," appeared in 43 U. Haw. L. Rev. (2020).
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This summer, we will say goodbye to four longtime faculty members who are retiring: Barbara Babb, top left, who joined the law school faculty in 1989; Steven Grossman, top right, who joined the faculty in 1979; Kenneth Lasson, lower left, who began teaching at Baltimore Law in 1977, and Donald Stone, lower right, who joined the faculty in 1989.
We thank them and wish them all well!
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