Titles

T. Carroll Brown Professor of Law

School Affiliation

Carey School of Law

Specialties

• Constitutional Law
• criminal law

About

Richard Boldt has been on the Maryland Carey Law faculty since 1989. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, mental disability law, and torts. Professor Boldt has written extensively on drug treatment courts and other problem-solving courts. His work has been published in leading law journals, including the Maryland Law Review, the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, the Washington University Law Quarterly, Criminal Justice Ethics, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Professor Boldt received an AB summa cum laude from Columbia College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. After practicing at the Legal Action Center, a public interest law firm in New York City, Professor Boldt began his academic career at the Northern Illinois University College of Law. He also held a faculty position at the City University of New York Law School and was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School. He served as associate dean of Maryland Carey Law from 2002 to 2006 and again in 2017. Professor Boldt was recognized by the University of Maryland, Baltimore as Educator of the Year in 2022.

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This information was last updated January 2, 2025.