The third annual The Bay in Crisis: Saving the Chesapeake Bay symposium will focus primarily on the Bay's principal fish and shellfish resources (oysters, blue crabs and rockfish). J. Charles Fox, senior advisor to the administrator on the Chesapeake Bay at the EPA, and the Hon. Douglas F. Gansler, Maryland attorney general, will be the featured speakers at the day-long event. As always, the symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://law.ubalt.edu/chesapeake.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the writer responsible for the masterpiece of civil rights narrative history known as the “America in the King Era Trilogy” (Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; At Canaan's Edge), will visit the University of Baltimore School of Law on Monday, Nov. 23 to discuss his latest work, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. Branch will read from and discuss the book starting at 6 p.m.; a book signing and cocktail reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, visit the calendar entry for the event.
The University of Baltimore School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic was recently awarded a major grant by the National Institute of Justice. The Innocence Project Clinic, which is run in conjunction with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, will receive funding over the next 18 months for an additional staff attorney and paralegal as well as for additional forensic DNA testing. The award is named after Maryland resident Kirk Bloodsworth, the first incarcerated person to be cleared by DNA testing. For more information, view the full press release from Governor Martin O'Malley's office.
Help Paint 'The Baltimore Song' Mural
Help Paint 'The Baltimore Song' Mural
Law Alumni Reception: Howard County
Law Alumni Reception: Baltimore County
