Human Rights Champion Gay McDougall Delivers School of Law's Stead Lecture, Oct. 28
October 16, 2020
Renowned human rights scholar and advocate Gay McDougall will deliver UB School of Law's 25th Annual John Sumner Stead Lecture in International Law on the international community's response to the Black Lives Matter movement. McDougal, a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Award, has spent her career working on issues of race, gender and economic justice in the global context. The talk will take place on Oct. 28.
UB Law Professors Meyerson, Wehle Discuss Upcoming Supreme Court Docket on WYPR
October 7, 2020
As the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term, UB School of Law DLA Piper Prof. Michael Meyerson and Prof. Kim Wehle appeared on WYPR programs to discuss the current state of the Court and some of the upcoming cases that are sure to be important this term.
Law School Center Fellow: Therapeutic Jurisprudence Starts with 'Why' and Ends with 'How'
October 5, 2020
University of Baltimore School of Law student Jillianne Crescenzi, a Fellow in the school's Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts, writes about therapeutic jurisprudence and its impact on long-standing issues in family law and elsewhere. "I came to law school to solve hard problems -- the types of problems that have gotten dusty on the shelf because they are multifaceted, and there isn't one simple solution that will fix them all," she says. "Yet, these are the types of problems that keep happening. They pile so high that it becomes easier to assign them a label and send them to storage, rather than to address the underlying issues."
Judges of Asian Pacific Descent Tell Law Students: The American Dream is to be 'Treated Fairly and Equally'
September 28, 2020
Arriana Sajjad, a member of the Class of 2022 at the UB School of Law and vice president of its Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, writes in the school's blog about a "fireside chat" she and other students attended on Sept. 23, in which three judges of Asian Pacific descent offered their advice to law students. The American dream, said the Hon. Lena Kim, Special Juvenile Magistrate Circuit Court for Montgomery County, is "to be treated fairly and equally."
UB School of Law Dean Ronald Weich: Supreme Court Can't Withstand a 'Rushed, Hyperpartisan Push' to Fill Justice Ginsburg's Seat
September 21, 2020
Writing in The Baltimore Sun, University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Ronald Weich cautions against a hurried process to replace the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "The current Senate must not vote on the confirmation of a successor," Dean Weich writes. "The court's fragile standing as the nonpartisan branch of our constitutional system cannot endure a rushed, hyperpartisan push."
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