UB Law Discussion Series Continues: Changing Police Culture (June 9) and Voting Rights Under Threat (June 18)
June 4, 2020
The UB Law in Focus Discussion Series continues on June 9, with the topic "To Protect and Serve: Changing the Culture of Policing." What can ordinary citizens, alongside the experts, do to change law enforcement to ensure the rights of minorities? What challenges do police face in these racially charged times? On June 18, the state of voting rights will be discussed.
Three UB Law Professors Offer June 3 Webinar on Constitutional Issues in a Pandemic
May 31, 2020
The University of Baltimore School of Law will offer a webinar, "Constitutional Issues in a Pandemic: The Obligations and Limits of Government," on June 3. It's the first in a new series on topics of current interest called UB Law in Focus Discussion Series. On June 3, three UB Law constitutional law professors — Garrett Epps, Michael Meyerson and Kimberly Wehle — will discuss issues such as the division of responsibility among various authorities during a public health emergency; the constitutional limits of quarantines; whether restrictions on religious gatherings violate the free exercise clause, and the constitutional limits of the Defense Production Act. Dean Ronald Weich will moderate the discussion.
Prof. Meyerson Receives 2020 President's Faculty Award
May 13, 2020
Michael I. Meyerson, DLA Piper Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore School of Law, is the recipient of the 2020 President's Faculty Award. UB President Kurt L. Schmoke, University leaders and colleagues will honor Prof. Meyerson later in the year.
Prof. Babb: Lessons Learned from Opioid Crisis Might Inform Family Courts' Response to Issues Arising from Pandemic
April 22, 2020
Barbara A. Babb, University of Baltimore School of Law associate professor and founder and director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts, says the nation's family courts have responded to the opioid epidemic in ways that could be helpful as the legal system encounters the falout from the COVID-19 pandemic. "Family court cases always reflect what is occurring in our communities," Prof. Babb writes in the law school's blog.
Law Professors: Pandemic Raises Concerns About Privacy
April 1, 2020
Privacy experts — including University of Baltimore School of Law Professors Michele E. Gilman and Kim Wehle — are warning that the use of surveillance networks to track the spread of the virus is forcing governments to make difficult trade-offs between public health and privacy.
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