Christopher J. Peters
Professor of Law
B.A., Amherst College
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837- 4509
Room Number: LC 101C
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Barbara Coyle, (410) 837-4635, (on campus x4635), LC 300
Courses Taught
Civil Procedure I and II
Christopher J. Peters comes to the University of Baltimore from Wayne State University Law School, where he taught since 1997. He achieved the rank of associate professor of law at Wayne State in 2002 and served as interim associate dean from 2003-04. His scholarship lies in the areas of constitutional law and political and constitutional theory, procedure and legal process. Peters’ articles have been published in Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review and Legal Theory, among others. He has served as a visiting professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the University of Michigan Law School, as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Toledo College of Law and as the Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Peters received the Alfred F. Havighurst Prize in History while at Amherst College and served on the Michigan Law Review while earning his J.D. After completing law school, he practiced with the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins in general commercial litigation and business law.