David Jaros
Assistant Professor of Law
djaros@ubalt.edu
410.837.4193, Law Center 202C
Administrative Assistant: Deborah Pinkham
410.837.4634, Law Center 400
Education
J.D. Yale Law School
M.P.P. John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
B.A.Swarthmore College
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Family Law
Professor Jaros joined the law school after three years as an assistant professor in New York University School of Law's Lawyering Program. His teaching interests include Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Law, Law and Economics, and Family Law. In 2012, Professor Jaros was awarded the James A. May Award, by vote of the Student Bar Association, for excellence in teaching and mentoring.
Professor Jaros' scholarship addresses the growing use of criminal law to police and regulate various aspects of our daily lives. His articles have been accepted for publication in the University Pennsylvania Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the American Criminal Law Review. His most recent article, Perfecting Criminal Markets, will appear in the December 2012 issue of the Columbia Law Review.
Professor Jaros received his law degree from Yale Law School and his masters degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. After graduating from Yale, he clerked for the Honorable Allyne Ross, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York. He then worked for five years as a public defender at the Bronx Defenders in New York City, first as a staff attorney and later as the legal director.
Selected Publications
Flawed Coalitions and the Politics of Crime, 99 Iowa Law Rev. __(forthcoming 2013)
Perfecting Criminal Markets, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1947 (2012)
The Criminal Class Action
, 159 U. PA. L. Rev. 1385 (2011) (w/ Adam Zimmerman)
Unfettered Discretion: Criminal Orders of Protection and Their Impact on Parent Defendants, 85 Ind. L.J. 1445 (2010)
The Lessons of People v. Moscat: Confronting Judicial Bias in Domestic Violence Cases Interpreting Crawford v. Washington, 42 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 995 (2005)
Articles on Social Science Research Network