Byron L. Warnken
Associate Professor of Law
bwarnken@ubalt.edu
410.837.4640, Law Center 402
Administrative Assistant: Shavaun O'Brien
410-837-4635, Law Center 300
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Baltimore,1977
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1968
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Warnken has been a member of the UB law faculty since 1977, when, while practicing tax law, he began teaching as an adjunct professor. In 1978, he joined the faculty full-time and was tenured in 1982. He teaches primarily criminal law and constitutional criminal procedure. For 33 years, Warnken served as director of the Judicial Internship Program and Judicial "EXPLOR" program, placing more than 3,000 law students with judges, including a record-setting 164 students in summer 2010. He is faculty adviser to the School of Law's Moot Court Board, which manages the Byron L. Warnken Moot Court Competition, from which UB selects the members for its 21 interschool appellate advocacy teams for competitive meets against other law schools.