Richard W. Bourne
Professor of Law
B.A., Harvard University, 1964
LL.B., University of Virginia, 1968
LL.M., Harvard University, 1975
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone:(410) 837-4508
Room Number: LC 313
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Laurie Schnitzer, (410) 837-4689, (on campus x4689), LC 300
Courses Taught
- Fall 2009 Professional Responsibility Syllabus
- Fall 2009 Professional Responsibility 1st Class Assignment
Biography
Professor Bourne joined the faculty in 1979 after four years of full-time law teaching at the University of Richmond School of Law. His previous experience includes five years as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, a brief stint as director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau ant two years as a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School.
Professor Bourne's scholarship has concentrated on problems of American civil litigation, conflict of laws and legal education, and has been published in the Missouri Law Review, Creighton Law Review and the University of Baltimore Law Review. He also co-authored, with Professor Lynch, the leading treatise on Maryland civil procedure, Modern Maryland Civil Procedure (Michie, 1993). He is a member of the Virginia Bar.
Selected Publications
Books
Maryland Rules Commentary, with P. Niemeyer, L. Schuett and J. Lynch, 3d ed. LexisNexis, (2003)
Modern Maryland Civil Procedure (with John Lynch), (Michie, Summer 1993)
Articles and Essays
A Day Late, a Dollar Short: Opening a Governmental Snare Which Tricks Poor Victims Out of Medical Malpractice Claims, 62 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 87 (Fall, 2000)
Modern Maryland Conflicts: Backing Into the Twentieth Century One Hauck At A Time, 23 U. Balt. L. Rev. 71 (1993)
Five Approaches to Legal Reasoning, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 35 (1992)
A Traditionalist's Approach to Teaching, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 455 (1992)