The Center for Criminal Justice Reform will support community-driven efforts to improve the criminal legal system and will bring together UBalt students, faculty, members of the community and decision-makers to examine how the criminal legal system currently functions, and to collaborate and propose reforms that will reduce systemic inequality and promote justice.
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- Faculty affiliate
Prof. Erica J. Suter
, director of Baltimore Law’s
Innocence Project Clinic
, presented the 3rd Annual Hon. Judge Alexander Williams Jr. Lecture on Nov. 11, 2021. The clinic, which is supported by the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, was an honoree at the event. Watch a video of her speech.
- Faculty affiliate
Prof. Hugh McClean
, director of Baltimore Law’s
Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic
, is the author of “Discharged and Discarded: The Collateral Consequences of a Less Than Honorable Military Discharge,” forthcoming in 121 Colum. L. Rev. (2021).
- Faculty affiliate
Prof. Jose Anderson
is the author of “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).
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Prof. Jose Anderson
is also the author of
Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law
, forthcoming from Carolina Academic Press (2021).
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Prof. Andrea Cantora
, a faculty affiliate, is a co-author of “Implementing Pell: Challenges and Successes of Implementing the U.S. Department of Education’s Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative,” Journal of Correctional Education Vol. 71, No. 1 (2020).
- Faculty affiliate
Associate Dean Colin Starger
co-authored the op-ed, “Detention fees unfairly burden poor people,” in The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 29, 2021.
- Prof. Zina Makar , a faculty affiliate, is the author of “Unnecessary Incarceration,” 98 Or. L. Rev. 608 (2020).