Prof Grossman: To Achieve Justice, Avoid Narratives
January 25, 2019
Writing in The Baltimore Sun, University of Baltimore School of Law Prof. Steven Grossman weighs the usefulness of narratives in the pursuit of justice - and finds them lacking, such as in the prosecution of the murder of a young girl in Houston. While the narrative power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements can shed light on patterns of injustice, he says, the need for specificity in a legal case should obliterate the efficacy of a story with a built-in assumption.
Prof. Starger Goes Global in Prep for Law School's New Clinic in Legal Technology
January 15, 2019
University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Colin Starger will serve as a visiting research professor this spring at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is developing and preparing to launch a new clinic at UB in January 2020. The Legal Data and Design Clinic will help students boost their technological literacy so they can use data more effectively in their lawyering, as well as better understand the rapidly changing field of technology in the context of intellectual property, privacy, and other areas of the law.
Innocence Project Clinical Fellow: Exoneration is Not Enough - the State Must Offer Compensation
January 15, 2019
The complete exoneration of a local man who served 27 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit is continuing to generate headlines for the University of Baltimore School of Law's Innocent Project Clinic, which led a successful effort last month to vacate the man's conviction. Innocence Project Clinical Fellow Brianna Ford writes in The Baltimore Sun that the state must compensate those who are wrongly convicted.
Dean Weich in Washington Post: Congressional Oversight is a Powerful Tool, But There Are Limits
January 7, 2019
Writing in the Washington Post, University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Ronald Weich examines the reach of Congressional oversight, which some have made dubious claims about concerning the future of the Trump administration.
After Years Behind Bars, Man is Exonerated - Thanks to UB School of Law Innocence Project
December 19, 2018
In front of a packed courtroom, Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Geller granted a joint petition for writ of actual innocence that was submitted by the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic and the State's Attorney for Clarence Shipley Jr.
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