Richard W. Bourne
Professor of Law
rbourne@ubalt.edu
410.837.4508, Law Center 313
Administrative Assistant: Laurie Schnitzer
410.837.4689, Law Center 300
Education
LL.M., Harvard University, 1975
LL.B., University of Virginia, 1968
B.A., Harvard University, 1964
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
Civil Procedure
Conflict of Laws
Federal Civil Procedure
Maryland Civil Procedure
Professional Responsibility
Remedies
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 and two years as a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School.
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 School of Law Professor John 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
The Coming Crash in Legal Education: How We Got Here, and Where We Go Now, 45 Creighton L. Rev. 4 (2012)
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)