The Center for Criminal Justice Reform supports community-driven efforts to improve public safety and address the harm and inequity caused by the criminal legal system, bringing together diverse voices and decision-makers to examine how the criminal legal system currently functions, and to collaborate on strategies that promote justice throughout the country and in Baltimore.
The Center was made possible by a generous donation from School of Law alumnus Samuel G. Rose, LL.B. '62.
Center News
- The University of Baltimore School of Law officially announced the launch of the Center.
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Heather Warnken
joined the Center as executive director in January 2022.
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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.
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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,” in 121 Colum. L. Rev. (2021).
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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,” in 14 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y (2021).
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Prof. Jose Anderson is the author of Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law , published in December 2021 by Carolina Academic Press.
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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)
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Prof. Zina Makar , a faculty affiliate, is the author of “Unnecessary Incarceration,” 98 Or. L. Rev. 608 (2020).