Prof. Gilda Daniels' article, "Democracy’s Distrust: The Supreme Court’s Anti-Voter Decisions as a Threat to Democracy," appears in 134 Yale L.J. Forum 1062 (2025).

She also published "Ending the Cycles of Voter Suppression," in 60 Harv. C.R.-C.L.L. Rev. 373 (Winter 2025).

Daniels is the keynote speaker for the Minnesota Law Review's Nov. 14, 2025 symposium on "The Future of Voting Rights." The event marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act and examines the voting rights battlegrounds of today. Her address will be published in the review's Symposium issue (Vol. 110, Issue 6).

She is editing the book, The History of Voting in the United States, for Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2026.

Prof. Zina Makar's article, "The Datafication of Incarceration: Rethinking Carceral Privacy for Digital Spaces," will be forthcoming in Yale Law Journal. She has presented this paper at the UCLA-Michigan Law Incarceration Law and Policy Roundtable, the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, and the Harvard Law Culp Colloquium.



Makar authored Brief for Plaintiff as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, S.L. v. Swanson, No. 374111 (Mich. Ct. App. July 31, 2025) (solicited to serve as lead amicus curiae on brief of law professors).

Prof. William Hubbard, director of the Center for the Law of Intellectual Property and Technology, was hired by the Maryland State Highway Administration to review all state laws to see where reform is necessary to allow for self-driving vehicles. This work resulted in two journal articles: "Drivers of Effective Laws for Automated Vehicles," in 70 Villanova L. Rev. 115 (2025), and "The Collision Course Between Outdated State Laws and Automated Vehicles," with UBalt Law Prof. Colin Starger, in 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 2293 (2025).

Hubbard is on sabbatical this semester in Australia and New Zealand, presenting his work and studying comparative perspectives on the regulation of autonomous vehicles.

Prof. Nienke Grossman published the chapter "Feminism, Approach to International Law," in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2025).

She was an editor on Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law (Nienke Grossman, J. Jarpa Dawuni, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2025).



She also co-authored "The Velásquez Rodríguez Case: Its Role in the Development of the Inter-American Human Rights System and Impact," with Claudio Grossman, in International Law Stories (Laura Dickinson, Mark Janis, John Noyes, & Carlos Vázquez, eds.) (Foundation Press, 2025).

Prof. John D. Bessler's article, "International Abolitionist Advocacy: The Rise of Global Networks to Advance Human Rights and the Promise of the Worldwide Campaign to Abolish Capital Punishment," appeared in 34 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2025).



His article, "Lost and Found: The Forgotten Origins of the 'Cruel and Unusual Punishments' Prohibition," was published in 14 Brit. J. Am. Legal Stud. 213 (2025).

Bessler's book chapter, "Conflicted Justices and a Divided Court: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Jurisprudence," appears in The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem 139 (Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen & Mary Welek Atwell eds., 2025).

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Prof. José F. Anderson was featured as an on-screen legal expert in Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP, in the PBS American Experience documentary.

Prof. Marta Baffy published her article, "Teaching Legal Analysis Through the Lens of Second Language Pedagogy: A Consciousness-Raising Approach," which appears in 73 J. Legal Educ. 850 (2025).

Prof. Fred B. Brown co-authored with Josh Friedman the article "Reforming the Effectively Connected Income Rules to More Accurately Capture U.S. Business Income," forthcoming in 79 Tax Law., in Spring 2026.

Prof. Anne-Marie Carstens, pictured, wrote "Beyond War Crimes," to be published in 84 Md. L. Rev.

Prof. B. Afton Cavanaugh will publish his article, "Statutory Time Travel and Tax Discrimination: Expanding Tax Return Amendment Limitation Rules to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Recoup Tax Overpayments," in 94.1 UMKC L. Rev. (Fall 2025).

Emeritus Prof. Eric B. Easton published Lawyers of the Old Left: Morris Hillquit, Seymour Stedman & Charles Recht (2025).

Prof. Michele Gilman published "The Impact of Proptech and the Datafication of Real Estate on the Human Right to Housing," in 9 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 444 (2025).

Prof. Valeria Gomez published "The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women," in 43 Minn. J. L. & Inequality 1 (2025).

Prof. Daniel L. Hatcher has a forthcoming article, "Child Support Factory: Racist History, Harm, and Unconstitutionality of the Child Support System's Contractual Operations," to be published in Wm. & Mary J. of Race, Gender, and Soc. Just. (2026).

Prof. F. Michael Higginbotham, pictured, published the textbook Race Law (6th ed. 2025).
 

Associate Dean Margaret E. Johnson published her article, "Menstrual Justice After Dobbs," in 2025 Wis. L. Rev. 675 (2025).
 

Prof. Robert Knowles published "How Lochnerism Ends,” in 56 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2025).

Prof. Dionne Koller will be publishing "More on More Than Play" in the symposium edition of New Eng. L. Rev. (2025), based on her recent book, More Than Play.

Prof. Katie Kronick has a forthcoming article "Universal Redesign of the Criminal Legal System," in 77 Ala. L. Rev. (2026).

Prof. Neha Lall has a forthcoming article, "Paying Dividends: An Empirical Examination of How Student Compensation Enhances Externships," in 59 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. (2026).

Emeritus Prof. Robert Lande co-authored with John M. Newman & Rebecca Kelly Slaughter the article, "The Forgotten Anti-Monopoly Law: The Second Half of Clayton Act § 7," in 103 Tex. L. Rev. 785 (2025).

Associate Dean for Experiential Education Jaime Alison Lee, pictured, has a forthcoming book chapter, "Water Rights Advocacy Efforts: A New Paradigm of Environmental Racial Justice - Reconstructing Equity in Water Rights in Baltimore," in The Color of Water: Strategies to Address Water and Wastewater Crises in Black Communities.

Prof. Savannah Long presented "Animal Policies in Libraries: Balancing Accessibility, Safety, and Inclusion," at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Portland, Or. (July 21, 2025).

Prof. Janet E. Lord gave a presentation, "Grotian Traditions and Disability in De jure belli ac pacis," at Leiden University, Grotian Center for International Legal Studies, The Hague, Neth. (June 20, 2025).

Prof. Richard Luedeman wrote a forthcoming article, "Anti-Allyship and the Indirect Subordination of Queer People," 101 Wash. L. Rev. (2026).

Prof. Hugh McClean wrote a forthcoming article, "The Military's Abortion Crisis in the Aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization," in 16 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. (2025).

Prof. Michael Meyerson's article, “When One Door Closes: Legal Education and Racial Justice After Students for Fair Admissions,” appears in 103 Neb. L. Rev. 325 (2025).

Prof. Max Stul Oppenheimer wrote the article, "The Artificial Intelligence Solution to the Patent Obviousness Problem," in 16 Harv. J. Sports & Ent. L. 161 (2025).

Prof. Walter Schwidetzky wrote the article, "The Otay Sham," in 188 Tax Notes 461 (2025). 

Prof. Mortimer Sellers co-edited, with Frank Lovett, The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism (Oxford 2025).

Prof. Matthew Sipe, pictured, will publish the article "Trademasks" in 104 N.C. L. Rev. (2025).

Prof. Janice Shih presented "Implementing and Teaching Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in your Student-Run Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic," at the LITC national conference in Alexandria, VA (Dec. 2024).

Prof. Amy E. Sloan published the book Using Generative AI for Legal Research (2d ed. 2025).

Prof. Colin Starger co-authored, with Prof. William Hubbard, the article, "The Collision Course Between Outdated State Laws and Automated Vehicles," in 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 2293 (2025).

Prof. Ioanna Tourkochoriti will publish the article, "Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards A Divided Internet?" in 15 NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. (2026).

Prof. Shanta Trivedi published, with Cynthia Godsoe, the article "Parenting as a Crime," in 15 Cal. L. Rev. 13 (2025).

Prof. Kimberly Wehle presented "Exploring Challenges to U.S. Constitutional Norms," at Leiden University, Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series, The Hague, The Neth. (June 5, 2025).

Prof. Jessica Lynn Wherry published the article "Denied by Dysfunctional Design: How the DD-293 Application Form Thwarts Pro Se Veteran-Applicants’ Discharge Upgrade Requests," in 74 Am. Univ. L. Rev. 1057 (2025).

Prof. Andrew J. Ziaja published the article "Machinists Preemption in the New Administrative Law," in 48 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. 989 (2025).

Prof. Sonya Ziaja will publish the article, "Of Climate Justice and Magical Realism," in 124 Mich. L. Rev. (2025).

Find a complete list of faculty scholarship on our website.

Prof. Gregory Dolin received the Saul Ewing Award for Outstanding Teaching in Transactional Law at the UBalt Law awards ceremony in April 2025.

Prof. Daniel Hatcher, who teaches in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, was named a 2025 Distinguished Advocate for Children by the Philadelphia-based Support Center for Child Advocates in April 2025.

Prof. David Jaros was selected by law students to receive a CELTT Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Baltimore.

Associate Dean Elizabeth Keyes received an award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member at the UBalt Law awards ceremony in April 2025.

Prof. Dionne Koller received a Faculty Scholarship Award for Traditional Scholarship at the UBalt Law awards ceremony in April 2025.

Prof. Neha Lall, pictured, director of externships, was named an Emerging Leader by the Externship Committee of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in April 2025. Her leadership at UBalt Law has been instrumental in building one of the largest paid legal externship programs in the United States. Her empirical research on the impact of pay on law students' externship experiences was selected for the Bellow Scholars Program.

Prof. Hugh McClean, pictured, director of The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic, received a Faculty Award for Non-Traditional Scholarship at the UBalt Law awards ceremony in April 2025.

Associate Dean Nancy Modesitt received the Law Faculty Service Award at the UBalt Law awards ceremony in April 2025.

Prof. Jessica Wherry was selected as a Woman Veteran Trailblazer for the 2025 Department of Veteran Affairs Center for Women Veterans Trailblazers “Women Veterans Forging a Path” initiative.

Trailblazers are women veterans who have served and separated from their branch of service and who now make an impact in their communities by enhancing the lives of sister veterans, veteran families, veteran caregivers, and survivors. Wherry teaches veterans and military law and legal writing.

Two professors at The University of Baltimore School of Law have been named to associate dean roles for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Prof. Margaret E. Johnson has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. In her role, she focuses on supporting and enhancing the research activities of faculty members within the law school.

Johnson joined the faculty in 2006. Her current research examines legal issues of reproductive justice. She asks questions about how women and other pregnancy-capable individuals are subject to structural and intersectional forms of oppression.

She explored comparative menstruation law and policy as a 2023 Fulbright Scholar at UTS in Sydney, Australia. Her current research examines reproductive freedom, criminalization of pregnant people, and state constitutional law.

In addition, Johnson’s research addresses the use of narrative theory, critical reflection, and normative theory in lawyering for clients. Johnson’s articles have been published in the Wisconsin Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and B.Y.U. Law Review, among others. She is co-author of the book Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners (2nd ed. 2023). Her research has been relied upon and cited by courts, media, and other scholars. In 2020, she received The University of Baltimore School of Law’s award for Outstanding Scholarship by a Full-Time Faculty Member.

Prof. Elizabeth Keyes has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In her role, she provides leadership and oversight for academic programs, curriculum development, faculty support, and student success initiatives within the law school. She works closely with the dean, faculty, and other administrators to enhance the quality of academic offerings and ensure a positive learning experience for students.

Keyes, an expert in immigration and asylum law, joined the UBalt Law faculty in 2012. She teaches Immigration Law, Professional Responsibility, Introduction to Lawyering Skills, and Civil Procedure. In all her teaching, she has a passion for deepening law students' analytical and lawyering skills so that they will thrive in the legal profession. She also directed UBalt Law's Immigrant Rights Clinic for 10 years

Her scholarship focuses on the gaps in access to protection for migrants fleeing both persecution and the effects of climate change, and on the state of lawyering in the U.S. immigration system.

“I am thrilled about the appointment of Associate Deans Johnson and Keyes,” says UBalt Law Dean LaVonda N. Reed. “Both are exceptional scholars and teachers, whose work has positively impacted the advancement of knowledge and lawyering skills, and both are deeply committed to promoting the work of our faculty, staff, and students.”

Rachel Bennett is the director of the MOPD Innocence Project Clinic at UBalt Law. The clinic identifies individuals who have been wrongfully convicted in Maryland state courts, conducts extensive investigation, and litigates legal claims seeking to overturn wrongful convictions. The Innocence Project Clinic engages in advocacy work to challenge the systemic failures that lead to wrongful convictions.

Before joining the MOPD Innocence Project Clinic, which has been in operation for 17 years, Bennett was a senior attorney with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, where she represented detained individuals in removal proceedings, and served as a qualified representative for noncitizens found incompetent to represent themselves.

Prior to the Amica Center, she was an assistant public defender with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender for 11 years, where she practiced in misdemeanor and felony divisions and with the statewide Post Conviction Defenders. She earned her law degree at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Chrysanthemum Desir is a clinical teaching fellow in the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic. She formerly served as a juvenile public defender in Baltimore City.

Desir graduated from Yale Law School in 2018 and was a student-attorney in the Criminal Defense, Juvenile Defense and Re-entry clinics. She also was involved in several legal education projects, including co-directing and teaching in the Marshall-Brennan Project, co-founding a tutoring program that brought law students into a low-income elementary school, and co-creating a Know Your Rights program using a “train the trainers” model through the Black Law Students Association.

Her research interests include criminal defense pedagogy, political epistemology, LGBTQ criminal justice issues with a focus on youth, and police violence. She co-taught a clinical seminar, "Intervening in the Criminalization of Youth and Queer and Trans Individuals," at Yale Law School before joining the UBalt Law clinical faculty.

Gabrielle Fortunato is a clinical teaching fellow in the MOPD Innocence Project Clinic at UBalt Law. Prior to joining the law school faculty, she was an assistant public defender for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender from 2022 to 2025, and a deputy state public defender for the Colorado State Public Defender from 2021 to 2022.

She has defended hundreds of indigent clients in misdemeanor and felony criminal proceedings at bail review hearings, motions hearings, and trials.

She earned her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Alex Maisel is a clinical teaching fellow in The Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic. Prior to joining the UBalt Law faculty, he served as an associate counsel for the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. In this role, he drafted more than 400 appellate decisions for signature by a veterans law judge.

Maisel was tasked with reviewing appeals of lower-level benefits decisions for veterans of the armed services and applying a complex and rapidly changing body of law to each veteran’s particular set of facts.

Before embarking on his career in veterans law, Maisel was a member of the Office of General Counsel for the United States Sentencing Commission, which sets national sentencing policy for federal criminal cases. While at the Commission, he co-authored Revocations Among Federal Offenders, a data-driven research publication examining recidivism in the population of federal criminal offenders.

Earlier in his career, he was as an assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore City. He holds a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and an M.A. in Continental (contemporary European) Philosophy from University College Dublin.

Olivia Molineux joined the UBalt Law faculty as a clinical teaching fellow in the Bronfein Family Law Clinic.

Previously, she was an attorney for children in New York, where she represented children in abuse, neglect, custody and juvenile delinquency proceedings. Molineux also has experience as a corporate attorney.

She was a capital markets associate in London at two international law firms.

Molineux earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School and her B.S. from Cornell University.

Ben Wilson is a clinical teaching fellow in the Mediation Clinic for Families. He previously served as staff attorney and Catalyst Fellow at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he co-led research on racial equity initiatives and developed community conflict resolution tools, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Relations Service.

As former director of training with Prison of Peace, Wilson taught mediation and restorative justice in California state prisons. He graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2017, where he earned his J.D. and Master's in Dispute Resolution. He is pursuing a doctorate at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.