Steven P. Grossman
Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law
B.A., City College of New York, 1969
J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1973
LL.M., New York University, 1977
Expertise
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Justice
- Trial Advocacy
Professor Grossman will be teaching a Comparative Criminal Justice course in Haifa, Israel in July, 2010
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-4603
Room Number: LC 416
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Barbara Coyle, (410) 837-4635, (on campus x4635), LC 300
Courses Taught
Constitutional Criminal Procedure I
Sentencing & Plea Bargaining Seminar
Professor Grossman joined the law faculty in 1979 from Syracuse University, where he was a lecturer and clinic attorney. Prior to his teaching at Syracuse, he served as an assistant district attorney in New York City.
Professor Grossman has written on such topics as eyewitness identification, sentencing and the use of hearsay evidence. He is a member of the New York Bar, the Board of Governors of the Judicial Institute of Maryland and the Board of Directors of MICPEL.
Selected Publications
Books
BECOMING A TRIAL LAWYER (with Michele Gillman and Frederic I. Lederer) (Carolina Academic Press, Apr. 2008)
Trying The Case, published by MICPEL (1999)
Maryland Rules of Evidence With Objections (with Stephen Shapiro), published by NITA, 1995
Articles and Essays
An Honest Approach to Plea Bargaining, 29 Am. J. Trial Adv. 103 (2005)
Judicial Modification of Sentences in Maryland, 33 U. Balt. L. Rev. 1 (2003) (with Stephen Shapiro)
Proportionality in Non-Capital Cases: The Supreme Court's Tortured Approach to Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 84 Ky. L.J. 107 (1995)
The Admission of Government Fact Findings: Limiting the Dangers of Unreliable Hearsay, 38 U. Kan. L. Rev. 767 (1990)
The Doctrine of Inevitable Discovery: A Plea for Reasonable Limitations, 92 Dick. L. Rev. 313 (1988)