Laurence M. Katz Professor of Law
higginbotham@ubalt.edu
410.837.4649
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1118
Administrative Assistant: Tiffany Ralph
410.837.4561
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1112
Education
Ph.D. (hon.) Shenandoah University
LL.M., Cambridge University
J.D., Yale University
A.B., Brown University
Areas of Expertise
Constitutional Law
Equal Protection
Human Rights
Race Relations
Before joining the faculty in 1988, Higginbotham was a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil F. Poole, an associate with Davis, Polk and Wardwell in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has published articles in numerous law reviews including in the New York University Law Review, University of Hawaii Law Review,Howard University Law Journal, and the University of Illinois Law Review.
Higginbotham is the co-founder of the Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence and is the former interim dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, the former President of the Public Justice Center, the former chair of the Maryland Attorney General's Task Force on Electronic Weapons, and the former chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Selected Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Book, Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America , New York University Press (February 2013)
Casebook, Race Law: Cases,Commentary, and Questions , (Fourth Edition), Carolina Academic Press (June 2015)
Articles and Essays
Editorial, Voting Trump A Big Risk, Baltimore Sun A14 (September 21, 2016)
Editorial, America's Racial Soul, Baltimore Sun A15 (June 9, 2016)
Editorial, Race-Based Affirmative Action Still Necessary, New York Times (online) (April 27, 2014)
Editorial, Jackie Robinson, the Moderate Radical, Baltimore Sun A 21 (April 15, 2014)
Article, An Open Letter From Heaven to Barack Obama, 32 University of Hawaii Law Review 1 (April 2010)
Articles on Social Science Research Network
Recent Media
Guest, CNN Tonight (Discussing Political Gerrymanders), CNN Television (March 26, 2019)
Guest, CNN Tonight (Discussing Racism Against American Indians), CNN Television (February 11, 2019)
Guest, CNN Tonight (Discussing Racism and Blackface), CNN Television (February 6, 2019)