Carey School of Law

The Francis King Carey School of Law was authorized by the Maryland legislature in 1813 and began regular instruction in 1824. It is one of the oldest law schools in the nation, but its innovative programs make it one of the liveliest and most dynamic today.

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Chaz Arnett, JD

Criminal Procedure

Race and Technology

Education

Professor Arnett teaches in the areas of criminal procedure, race and technology, juvenile law, and education law, and his research interests lie at the intersection of race, surveillance, and technology. His scholarship examines the ways in which surveillance measures are used within the criminal justice system, in corrections and policing, and the impact these practices have on historically marginalized groups and vulnerable populations. His research agenda is aimed at highlighting how law and policy pave the way for new technologies, through their design and implementation, to reproduce and entrench legacies of state-sponsored racialized surveillance. Before joining the faculty, Professor Arnett was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a trial attorney with public defender’s offices in Baltimore and New Orleans. As a recipient of the Satter Human Rights Fellowship, he also has worked with the International Center for Transitional Justice on issues of constitutional development in Zimbabwe and on asylum cases for Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa.

Andrew Blair-Stanek, JD

Tax

Professor Blair-Stanek is an expert in tax law whose research addresses multinational corporations’ transfers of intellectual property (e.g., patents) to avoid U.S. tax. Separately, he also has considered how to “crisis-proof” tax law against financial crises. Before joining the faculty at the Francis King Carey School of Law, he practiced tax law at McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP in Washington, D.C., where his practice included bankruptcy taxation, intellectual property transactions, and international tax planning. He also worked as a software design engineer for Microsoft Corp. and is the inventor of U.S. patents 7,617,204 and 7,580,951.

Richard Bolt, MA, JD

Constitutional Law

criminal law

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.

Patricia Campbell, LLM, JD, MA

Intellectual Property

Patents

Trademarks

Professor Campbell joined the Francis King Carey School of Law faculty in 2007 after spending several years in private practice with law firms and corporations. Before her faculty appointment, she was associate general counsel at Kajeet, Inc., a telecommunications company in Bethesda, Md. She teaches courses on patent law and trademarks and unfair competition at Maryland Carey Law. Professor Campbell teaches at the Intellectual Property Clinic and the Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center, both located at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). In addition to her law faculty appointment, she is an associate professor at the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, located within the A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMCP.

Douglas Colbert, JD

criminal justice

Doug Colbert joined the Maryland Carey Law faculty in 1994 after directing the criminal justice clinic and teaching civil rights at Hofstra Law School and visiting at Northeastern and Utah Law Schools where he taught Evidence and Lawyering Skills courses. Having taught the Access to Justice criminal defense clinic for many years, Professor Colbert currently teaches Criminal Procedure II and the Race seminar in the fall semester, and Legal Profession in the spring. He has written extensively in the areas of criminal law, constitutional law, lawyers’ ethical responsibilities, and police misconduct. Professor Colbert’s favorite three law review articles focused on politically sensitive trials (Stanford), the Thirteenth Amendment and the badge of racial exclusion (Cornell) and most recently, bail reform and structural racism at the pretrial stage (Maryland). Professor Colbert currently testifies as an expert witness in class action lawsuits in state and federal courts on behalf of parties seeking fundamental change in pretrial justice and guarantees of indigent defendants’ right to counsel. He also testifies before Maryland legislative committees on various criminal law issues. As the founder and director of the Lawyers at Bail Project, Professor Colbert’s lawyers represented 4,000 indigent defendants at bail hearings. Prior to entering the academy, Professor Colbert served as a senior trial attorney in the NYC Legal Aid Society’s criminal defense division for 11 years and acted as lead counsel in the Naponoch prison rebellion at Eastern Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Professor Colbert regularly contributes opinion articles and engages as a media commentator about many criminal justice issues. For nearly two decades, he served as a board member of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), on the board of directors of the Public Justice Center, and on the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (MCDAA) where he remains currently. He is a past chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Section on Correctional Reform.

Peter Danchin, JSD

International & Transnational Law

Human Rights

Comparative Constitutional Law

Professor Danchin’s teaching and scholarship focus on international law, human rights, transnational law, and comparative constitutional law with a focus on theories of religious freedom. Before joining the law school faculty, he was director of the human rights program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a law clerk to Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In recent years, he has been the Senior Research Fellow in Law at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, N.J., where he co-led an inquiry on law and religious freedom, and a visiting law professor at the University of Cape Town. He publishes widely on critical and comparative approaches to the right to religious freedom in legal, political, and moral thought.

Deborah T. Eisenberg, JD

Dispute Resolution

employment law

equal pay

Vice Dean Deborah Thompson Eisenberg is the Piper & Marbury Professor of Law. She serves as faculty director of Maryland Carey Law’s Dispute Resolution Program and Center for Dispute Resolution. Professor Eisenberg teaches in the areas of dispute resolution, mediation, and civil procedure. She received her JD from Yale Law School in 1994 and graduated as valedictorian with a BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1991. Professor Eisenberg is a recognized scholar in the areas of dispute resolution, employment law, and equal pay. She has published peer-reviewed articles relating to the costs and benefits of court-annexed ADR (with Lorig Charkoudian and Jamie Walter). Professor Eisenberg’s equal pay scholarship has been recognized in many national media outlets, including The New York Times, Salon.com, MSNBC.com, The Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, and others. She has testified as a pay discrimination expert before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Professor Eisenberg serves as a mediator in employment discrimination and civil cases. Through the law school’s Center for Dispute Resolution, she provides professional trainings in negotiation, mediation, mediation ethics, restorative practices, managing workplace conflict, and other conflict resolution topics. Professor Eisenberg serves on the executive committee of the American Association of Law Schools Dispute Resolution Section and previously served as co-chair of the ADR Committee of the AALS Clinical Law Section. Prior to academia, Professor Eisenberg practiced complex civil litigation for more than 15 years. She was a partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP in Baltimore, with a practice focused on employment law. Prior to that, she served as director of the Appellate Advocacy Project and staff attorney at the Public Justice Center, litigating a variety of civil rights, wage and hour, and poverty law cases. She started her legal career at the Baltimore firm Ober Kaler (now Baker Donelson).

Daniel Goldberg, JD

Tax Law

Tax Policy

Professor Goldberg’s specialty is tax law. During his years on the faculty, he has taught courses in income taxation, various aspects of business taxation (partnership and corporate), tax policy, international taxation, and law and economics. He has received the Outstanding Teaching Award by vote of the graduating class. Over the years, he has lectured at various programs for tax lawyers, including the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation. Professor Goldberg’s research interests include tax policy issues, and he is the author of the book The Death of the Income Tax: A Progressive Consumption Tax and the Path to Fiscal Reform, published by Oxford University Press. The book explains why the current income tax is fatally flawed and proposes a plan to replace it with a progressive consumption tax. He also has published several articles on aspects of the income tax/consumption tax choice as well as other tax policy issues in scholarly journals including the Tax Law Review, the Tax Lawyer, the Virginia Tax Review, and Tax Notes. Professor Goldberg’s research interests also extend to issues under the current income tax primarily related to business and real estate transactions, partnership taxation, and venture capital. He has published several articles in law reviews in these areas as well. While on the faculty, Professor Goldberg has done consulting with law firms in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, and has served as professor in residence in the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service. Prior to joining the faculty in 1978, he practiced full time for law firms in New York and Washington, D.C. Most notably, he brings these experiences into the classroom and into his scholarly writing. Professor Goldberg was a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with High Honors from the University of Rochester, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the John Dows Mairs Prize for Excellence in Economics.

Leigh Goodmark, JD

Gender Violence

Leigh Goodmark (she/hers) is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she teaches the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic. She is the author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (University of California Press 2023); Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (University of California Press 2018) and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (New York University 2012), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2012. She is the co-editor of The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives (Oxford 2023) and Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (Oxford 2015). Professor Goodmark’s work on intimate partner violence has appeared in numerous journals, law reviews, and publications, including Violence Against Women, The New York Times, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Gender and the Law, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism. From 2003 to 2014, Professor Goodmark was on the faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as director of clinical education and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism. From 2000 to 2003, Professor Goodmark was the director of the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Before joining the Center on Children and the Law, Professor Goodmark represented clients in the District of Columbia in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters. Professor Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.

Mark Graber, JD

Constitutional Law

Professor Graber held a faculty position in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1993 to 2007 and taught at the University of Maryland School of Law as an adjunct professor beginning in the fall of 2002. In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Government and Law at Maryland Carey Law, a title he held until May 1, 2015, at which time he received an appointment as the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism. In 2016, he was named Regents Professor, one of only seven Regents Professors in the history of the University System of Maryland and the only Regents Professor on the UMB campus. He served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2010 to 2013. He has also been one of the organizers of the annual Constitutional Law "Schmooze," which attracts scholars from across the country to the law school. Professor Graber is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford 2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge, 2006), and co-editor (with Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman) of American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers and American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers, both also from Oxford University Press, and co-editor with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis (Oxford 2018). His most recent book is Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Kansas, 2023). Professor Graber is also the author of over 100 articles, including "The Non-Majoritarian Problem: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary" in Studies in American Political Development, "Naked Land Transfers and American Constitutional Development," published in the Vanderbilt Law Review and "Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville’s Aphorism Revisited," published by Constitutional Commentary. He has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Oregon School of Law, and Simon Reichman University.

David Gray, JD

Criminal Law

David Gray is the Jacob A. France Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international criminal law, and jurisprudence. He also teaches an interdisciplinary course in the College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was voted Professor of the Year in 2012. Professor Gray’s scholarship focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional theory, and transitional justice. His books include The Fourth Amendment an Age of Surveillance (Cambridge University Press 2017), the Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law (Cambridge University Press 2017), Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year Curriculum (West 2016), and Stay Ahead of the Pack: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper Level Curriculum (West 2018). In 2019, he joined the leading textbook American Criminal Procedure: Cases and Commentary. He has also published dozens of articles and book chapters in leading journals and collections. His work has been cited and followed by state and federal appellate courts. In 2019, he was named University of Maryland, Baltimore, Researcher of the Year in recognition of his scholarly contributions. In addition to his own scholarship, Professor Gray works closely with students to develop and publish their work. Recent work written by or with his students has appeared in JURIST, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Texas Law Review, the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, New England Law Review, the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vermont Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and in edited collections. Consistent with Maryland Carey Law’s mission as a public educational institution, Professor Gray frequently provides expert commentary for local and national media outlets on topics relating to criminal law, police procedure, and surveillance. He has also written and contributed to amicus briefs filed in state appellate courts, federal courts, and the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Gray practiced at Williams & Connolly LLP, was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University School of Law, and served as a clerk in the chambers of The Honorable Chester J. Straub, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and The Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Gray is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is admitted to the Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia bars.

Leslie M. Henry, MSc, JD, PhD

Reproductive Justice

Health Law

Leslie Meltzer Henry joined the Maryland Carey Law faculty in 2008 and has a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She teaches constitutional law, biomedical research regulation and ethics, public health law and ethics, bioethics, and reproductive justice. She was co-chair of the law school’s Dean Search Committee and chair of the law school’s Judicial Clerkship Committee. She was voted Professor of the Year in 2017. Professor Henry is nationally recognized for her expertise in assessing, navigating, and advising on a range of ethical and legal issues that arise at the intersection of medicine, public health, and public policy. Her scholarly work primarily focuses on aspects of biomedical research regulation, and practice that have implications for, and are implicated by, social justice and public health. She has been an investigator on National Institutes of Health (NIH) and internationally funded grants, including most recently, a project examining the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of the increasingly blurred boundaries between infectious disease and genetics, and a separate project involving the use of HIV phylogenetics in clinical care and public health. Professor Henry previously worked on projects aimed at developing ethically and legally acceptable strategies for including pregnant people in clinical research during public health emergencies. She is a core member of the Center for Bridging Infectious Disease, Genomics, and Society (BRIDGES) and the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE). Professor Henry has served in an advisory capacity to a variety of federal, state, and local agencies and commissions—including the Department of Defense (DoD), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (OWH), the Trans-NIH Bioethics Advisory Committee, and the Maryland State Senate—to identify limits, as well as areas of flexibility, in regulations related to the inclusion of special populations in research. She has been quoted in media outlets including The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, NPR, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes, and the Baltimore Sun. Prior to joining the faculty at Maryland Carey Law, Professor Henry completed post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, clerked for the Honorable Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was a fellow in the NIH Office of Human Subjects Research, and was founder and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics.

Diane Hoffman, MS, JD

Health Care Law

Diane E. Hoffmann is the Jacob A. France Professor of Health Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and director of the law school’s Law & Health Care Program. She served as associate dean of the law school from 1999 to 2013. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her master's degree from Harvard School of Public Health. She was one of the primary authors of Maryland’s Health Care Decisions Act, which establishes standards and procedures for making medical decisions for individuals at the end of life who lack decision-making capacity. She has served as a member of a number of ethics committees including those at the University of Maryland Medical System and the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. She is the founder and director of the Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network, which publishes the Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter. From June 1994 to May 1995, Professor Hoffmann was the acting staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Aging reporting to U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski. In 2009, she was selected one of the Maryland Daily Record’s top 100 women. From 2008 to 2014 she served as a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and as president of the board in 2010 and 2011. She is currently a member of the Maryland Stem Cell Commission, the Composite Committee of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Regulation, and the scientific advisory board of the Center for Gut Microbiome Research & Education at the American Gastroenterological Association. She is the recipient of three NIH grants, most recently an R01 from the National Human Genome Research Institute to evaluate the regulatory framework for direct-to-consumer microbiome-based tests. Her scholarship has focused generally on end-of-life care, legal obstacles to the treatment of chronic pain, and the regulation of new medical therapies and technologies. Her recent publications have included articles on the regulation of microbiome-based therapies, including probiotics and microbiota transplants, implementation of state allocation of scarce medical resource plans and liability of health care workers during COVID-19, and hospice disposal of opioids. Professor Hoffmann has published numerous articles on health law and policy issues in legal journals as well as scientific and medical journals including Science, JAMA, the NEJM, and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Kathleen Hoke, JD

public health law

Public Health Policy

Professor Kathleen Hoke is director of the Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region, and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She teaches the Public Health Law Clinic through which she engages law students in the work of the Network for Public Health Law and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy. She also teaches Public Health and the Law, introducing students to the legal framework within which the public health system operates. The Network for Public Health Law was launched in September 2010 with the goal of providing technical legal assistance to national, state, and local public health professionals, their attorneys, legislators, and advocates working to develop sound public policy to improve public health. The Network for Public Health Law also develops 50-state law surveys, factsheets, issue briefs, webinars, and other useful tools on emerging and persistent public health issues. Under Professor Hoke’s direction, the Network for Public Health Law’s Eastern Region deliverables have focused on environmental health, food safety, and injury prevention. Professor Hoke has conducted research and prepared materials specifically related to hydrofracturing, medical marijuana laws, and health agency access to school health records. Through the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy, Professor Hoke provides technical legal assistance to Maryland state and local health officials, legislators, and organizations working in tobacco control. Recent work has focused on the regulation of electronic smoking devices (vapes), prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco products, raising the age of access to tobacco to 21, and the development of sound policies to create smoke-free multiunit housing. Professor Hoke joined the faculty in 2002 after serving for eight years with the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland. During her tenure as an assistant attorney general, she served in the Civil Litigation Division and the Opinions and Advice Division. As a special assistant attorney general, she worked on a variety of public health initiatives, including tobacco regulation and gun control, and represented the office in multistate cases through the National Association of Attorneys General. Professor Hoke graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1992, having served on the executive board of the Maryland Law Review and as a member of the National Moot Court Team.

Russell McClain, JD

Law

Law School Associate Professor and Associate Dean Russell McClain graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995. From 1995 until 2005, Professor McClain was a civil litigator in Los Angeles, California. Professor McClain began teaching in the fall of 2005 as a legal writing instructor at Howard University School of Law. Professor McClain began teaching at the University of Maryland School of Law in 2006, and he received a full-time appointment to the faculty in 2007. Since then, he has worked as the Director of the law school’s Academic Achievement Program, which focuses on assisting with the academic development of law students. In 2016, Professor McClain was promoted to law school associate professor, and he was appointed by the law school Dean to the position of Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion. He also is a member of the President’s Diversity Advisory Council of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Professor McClain’s scholarly interest is in the psychological factors that affect academic performance, including stereotype threat and implicit bias. This research explores whether stereotype threat (the fear of confirming negative group stereotypes) and implicit bias (subconscious categorizations that are biased against racial/ethnic minorities and women) work together to suppress the performance of these groups in higher education, including in law school. See Russell A. McClain, Helping Our Students Reach Their Full Potential: The Insidious Consequences of Ignoring Stereotype Threat, 17 RUTGERS RACE & L. REV. 1 (2016); Russell A. McClain, Bottled at the Source, Recapturing the Essence of Academic Support as a Primary Tool of Education Equity for Minority Law Students, 18 MD. L.J. OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER & CLASS 139 (2018). Professor McClain has made dozens of presentations and conducted numerous workshops for educational institutions and professional groups. Professor McClain is the President of the Association of Academic Support Educators. He also has served as a member of the Law School Admissions Council’s Diversity Committee. Professor McClain was honored by the University of Maryland Chapter of the Black Law Students Association as the 2006-2007 Alumnus of the Year. In 2011 and 2018, the chapter named him Professor of the Year.

Michael Millemann, JD

criminal justice

Michael Millemann graduated from Dartmouth College (BA, 1966) and Georgetown Law School (JD, 1969). In 1967, as a law student, he worked in the Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, which strongly shaped his career. After graduation, he worked at the National Prison Project, the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau (as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow), and the Multnomah County, Oregon legal aid program, where he was director of litigation. During 1979–81, he was chief general counsel and chief of the Civil Division of the Maryland attorney general's office. He began teaching at the University of Maryland School of Law as an adjunct in 1970 and full-time in 1974, and has taught a broad variety of classroom, clinical, and hybrid courses. He was a leader in developing the school’s Clinical Law and Environmental Law programs and its Cardin Requirement. He also has been a leader in developing a number of legal services or law-related organizations in Maryland, including the Maryland Legal Services Corporation (through legislation), the Public Justice Center, the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, the Prisoner Assistance Project (now operating as the Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland), Community Law in Action, a youth advocacy and development program; Civil Justice, and the St. Ambrose Legal Services Program. He has received several “best teacher” awards and a number of national and state awards for public service, including from the ABA (2008 Father Robert Drinan Award), and the AALS Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities, and in Maryland, the 2017 Robert M. Bell Medal for Access to Justice and the 2016 Maryland State Bar Association’s Robert C. Heeney Award for his work in the criminal law field. Professor Millemann has published extensively in the fields of legal education, criminal justice, access to justice, and the delivery of legal services. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Paula Monopoli, JD

Gender Equality

Gender and the Law

Gender and Constitutional Design

Paula Monopoli is the Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law where she founded its Women, Leadership & Equality Program. Professor Monopoli received her BA cum laude, from Yale College, and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches in the areas of Property, Trusts & Estates and Gender and the Law. Professor Monopoli has held several visiting appointments, most recently as a visiting scholar at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Professor Monopoli has published widely on the intersection of gender and constitutional design. She is the author of Constitutional Orphan: Gender Equality and the Nineteenth Amendment (Oxford University Press 2020) and three previous books, American Probate, Law and Leadership and Contemporary Trusts and Estates. Her articles include “Gender and Constitutional Design” in the Yale Law Journal, “Marriage, Property and [In]Equality” in the Yale Law Journal Online, “Gender and Justice: Parity and the United States Supreme Court” in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and “The Gendered State and Women’s Political Leadership” (with McDonagh) in Feminist Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press). Professor Monopoli has presented her research at Oxford University, University College Dublin, Yale Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Texas Law School, Boston University School of Law, the Wake Forest University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law, among many others. Professor Monopoli is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. She has received a number of teaching awards, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore Founders Week award, the law school’s Outstanding Professor of the Year award, and Maryland’s Top 25 Women Professors by StateStats.org. Professor Monopoli has also been selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by the Daily Record and she received the Baltimore Bar Foundation’s 2020 Fellows Award for exceptional contributions in furthering the understanding of the role of law in our democratic society.

William Moon, BBA, JD

corporate governance

offshore finance

private international law

Professor Moon is a professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. His current research focuses on corporate charter competition, corporate governance, offshore finance, and private international law. Professor Moon’s recent scholarship has appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. In 2021, Professor Moon was voted Professor of the Year by the Black Law Students Association. Prior to joining Maryland Carey Law in 2018, Professor Moon served as an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law from 2016 to 2018. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a litigation associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP in New York City, where he specialized in cross-border commercial disputes. From 2013 to 2014, Professor Moon served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Moon holds a JD from the Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Fellow. He received a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he was the founding editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of Business.

Robert Percival, MA, JD

Environmental Law

Environmental Policy

Professor Robert Percival joined the faculty in 1987 after serving as senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. While in law school, he served as managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and was named the Nathan Abbott Scholar for graduating first in his class. Professor Percival served as a law clerk for Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. He also served as a special assistant to the first U.S. Secretary of Education. Professor Percival is internationally recognized as a leading scholar and teacher in environmental law. Since 1992 he has been the principal author of the most widely used casebook in environmental law in the U.S., Environmental Regulation: Law, Science & Policy, now in its ninth edition (http://www.erlsp.com). He is the author of more than 100 publications on topics that include environmental law, federalism, presidential powers, regulatory policy, and legal history. Professor Percival taught as a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School in 2000 and 2009 and at Georgetown University Law Center in 2005 and 2011. He received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Collaborative Teaching in 2005, and in 2007 he was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore Teacher of the Year. In 2014, he received the Senior Distinguished Environmental Law Education Award from the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in recognition of his outstanding teaching and contributions to the field of environmental law (http://www.iucnael.org/en/academy-awards/environmental-law-education-awards/218-2014-environmental-law-education-awards). In 2019, he received the award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy from the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Law. Professor Percival has taught Environmental Law, Global Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Torts and Toxic Torts. In 2022 the University of Maryland named him a Distinguished University Professor, the highest appointment bestowed on a tenured university professor. Professor Percival is a member of the board of regents of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He has served on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute and as co-chair of the steering committee of the D.C. Bar's Section on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and the National Committee on U.S./China Relations. He has served as the contributing editor for Environment and Natural Resources for the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, as a special master for the U.S. District Court of Maryland, and as a member of the state of Maryland's Environmental Restoration and Development Task Force.

Michael Pinard, JD

Race and the Law

criminal law

criminal legal system

Michael Pinard is the Francis & Harriet Iglehart Professor of Law, faculty director of the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, and director of the Clinical Law Program. Professor Pinard writes and teaches broadly about race, intersectionality, and the criminal legal system, including the criminalization of race (children, adults, and communities); policing; incarceration; criminal records; exclusionary school discipline of K-12 students; and the intersectional harms of the criminal and civil legal systems. Professor Pinard currently teaches the Youth, Education, and Justice Clinic, in which he and his students represent children who have been pushed out of school through suspension, expulsion, and other means as well as individuals serving life sentences for offenses that occurred when they were children or young adults. The clinic also works on policy and legislative initiatives aimed to keep children in school (and away from the youth/criminal legal systems) and to provide (and broaden) meaningful opportunities for release from incarceration. In fall 2024, Professor Pinard will teach a new course, Race and Decarceration in Maryland. Professor Pinard has also taught the Reentry Clinic; Law and Social Change (1L elective); Policing, Communities, and the Law; the Permanence of Criminal Records; Freddie Gray’s Baltimore: Past, Present and Moving Forward (with colleagues); Criminal Procedure; Criminal Procedure II; Legal Profession; the Criminal Defense Clinic; and Comparative Criminal Process (Aberdeen, Scotland). Professor Pinard has worked to improve the criminal legal system nationally and locally through legislative and policy advocacy, scholarship, opinion pieces, and participation in various working and advisory groups. He serves on the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative, a partnership led by Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Public Defender focused on reducing incarceration in Maryland. Recently, he served on the transition team for Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown as co-lead of the Public Safety Team. Professor Pinard currently serves as board chair of the Gault Center, as a commissioner with the Maryland Access to Justice Commission, and on the leadership council of the Public Justice Center. He has served as a board member of the Public Justice Center, an advisory committee member of the Maryland Reentry Partnership and the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and as chair of the Maryland State Bar Associations Legal Education and Bar Admissions Committee.

Amanda C. Pustilnik, JD

neuroscience law

Amanda C. Pustilnik is a professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law and faculty at the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work focuses on the intersections of law, science, and culture, with a particular emphasis on the brain. In 2015, she served as Harvard Law School’s first senior fellow on law and applied neuroscience. Her collaborations with scientists on brain imaging of pain and addiction led to her recent work on opioids on behalf of the Aspen Institute. Prior to entering the academy, Amanda practiced litigation at Sullivan & Cromwell, clerked on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., in New York. She attended Harvard College, Yale Law School, and the University of Cambridge, where she studied history and philosophy of science. Her work has been published in numerous law reviews and peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Nature.

Natalie Ram, JD

Genetic Privacy and the Law

Health Care Law

Natalie Ram is professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She is also adjunct faculty with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Ram is a leading scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law. Her work has been published in both law reviews and scientific journals, including Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Science, and Nature Biotechnology. Professor Ram has also been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Slate and interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday, Here & Now, and Reveal. She teaches courses in Maryland Carey Law’s Law and Health Care Program. Professor Ram was a 2021 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before joining Maryland Carey Law, Professor Ram clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court. Subsequently, she worked in the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C. Professor Ram taught previously at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She earned her JD at Yale Law School and AB in public and international affairs at Princeton University.

Maneka Sinha, JD

forensic science

Criminal litigation

Maneka Sinha joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2019 to re-launch the Criminal Defense Clinic. She has extensive experience in criminal litigation and is recognized for her expertise in forensic science. Professor Sinha’s research interests explore the intersection of forensic science evidence and outcomes in criminal cases. Prior to joining the law school, she spent 10 years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where she served as senior advisor to the agency’s director on forensic science issues and represented indigent clients charged with the most serious crimes in the District of Columbia, including complex homicides and sexual assaults. She also served as head of the agency’s nationally recognized Forensic Practice Group, training and supervising lawyers involved in forensic science litigation locally and nationwide, while also personally litigating highly complex and novel forensic science issues. In 2017, Professor Sinha was a fellow with the International Legal Foundation, supporting its work to establish a public defender agency in Nepal. In 2015, she served as a Brian Roberts Fellow in the West Bank, training and supervising Palestinian public defenders. Professor Sinha holds a JD from New York University School of Law and a BS in mechanical engineering, with Honors, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Matiangai Sirleaf, MA, JD

International Law

global public health law

international human rights law

Professor Matiangai Sirleaf is an interdisciplinary international scholar, justice seeker, and human rights advocate who has worked to unearth unjust hierarchies embedded in international law and to remedy the inequities that emerge and persist. She is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Professor Sirleaf has published widely and extensively. Her areas of expertise include public international law, international human rights law, global public health law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law. Her current research projects are focused on race and the histories of international human rights and health inequality and the law. Professor Sirleaf is working on her forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, There Are Black People in the Past: Reclaiming Our Time in Human Rights. She is the editor of the first thematic print volume on Race & National Security (2023) with Oxford University Press, which has been favorably reviewed in Harvard Law School National Security Journal and Jotwell. Her work has been featured in leading law reviews such as the Cardozo Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor Sirleaf’s writing also appears in peer reviewed journals like the International Journal for Transitional Justice and the Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, as well as several textbooks with Oxford University Press like Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights (2020) and Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World (2023). Professor Sirleaf’s research can be broadly categorized as critical international legal scholarship. Specifically, much of her writing falls in line with the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) tradition. TWAIL scholarship reconsiders the history and development of international law and highlights its colonial legacy. She has engaged in several projects where she looks at the embedded and hidden histories of international law in national security, in human rights, and in global health. Professor Sirleaf is passionate about examining how international law can conceal the incredibly unjust status quo, divert attention from its oppressive character, and potentially limit organizing for alternative ways of being. The common thread through her work, whether examining issues of racial justice, civil and political or socio-economic rights, is hierarchy. International law reifies hierarchy while her scholarship seeks to disrupt it and envision more emancipatory futures.

Jeff Sovern

Civil Procedure

Consumer Protection

Payment Systems

Jeff Sovern is the Michael Millemann Professor of Consumer Law and teaches Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, and Payment Systems. The New York Times has called him "an expert in consumer law," while Congressional Quarterly’s Roll Call has described him as a "leading figure in consumer financial law." He is a fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. The American Council on Consumer Interests awarded him its Russell A. Dixon Prize in 2002 and its 2010 Applied Consumer Economics Award.

Maxwell Stearns, JD

economics

US government

Constitution Law

Max Stearns, Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, is an interdisciplinary scholar. He applies the methodologies of economics, broadly defined, to study private and public law, along with institutional decision-making processes. His work combines neoclassical economics, interest group theory, social choice, and game theory, among other tools, to study legal doctrines and lawmaking systems. Stearns’s writings focus on constitutional decision making, the Supreme Court, and the ongoing threats facing our democracy. He has written extensively on standing, the commerce clause, separation of powers, federalism, and equal protection. Professor Stearns’s scholarly articles appear in leading academic journals: Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Professor Stearns joined the faculty at Maryland Carey Law in fall 2006 after one year as a distinguished visiting professor. He was professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law from 1992 through 2005. Professor Stearns practiced law as a litigation associate with Palmer & Dodge in Boston and with Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia. He earned his BA, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review and the Order of the Coif. Professor Stearns clerked for the Honorable Harrison L. Winter, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He has taught courses in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional law at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland; the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; and Canterbury University Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand (as visiting Erskine Fellow). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, and at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Stearns served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2013 to 2017. Professor Stearns teaches Constitutional Law I and II (Governance and Individual Rights) and Law and Economics.

Maureen Sweeney, JD

Immigration law

Immigration policy

Professor Maureen Sweeney has directed the Immigration Clinic at Maryland Carey Law since 2004 and the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice since its founding in 2020. She also teaches Immigration Law and Practicing Law in Spanish and is the faculty advisor of the student Immigration Law and Policy Association. Professor Sweeney puts into action the ideal of engaged scholarship, primarily in the fields of asylum law and the law of immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She is the principal author of a chart for criminal defense practitioners of the Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions Under Maryland State Law, and has spoken and trained widely in the state on this topic. Her publications include Enforcing/Protection: The Danger of Chevron in Refugee Act Cases, 71 Administrative Law Review 127 (2019), which argues that federal courts should not give Chevron deference to decisions by the immigration court system because of the agency’s principal identity as a law enforcement agency and because the administrative law principles supporting Chevron do not apply in the context of humanitarian protection; Shadow Immigration Enforcement and Its Constitutional Dangers, 104 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 227 (2014), addressing the dangers of the entanglement of criminal law enforcement in immigration enforcement; and Fact or Fiction: The Legal Construction of Immigration Removal for Crimes, 27 Yale Journal on Regulation 47 (2010), an article that explains much of the theoretical, statutory, and enforcement background behind the Supreme Court’s 2010 Padilla v. Kentucky decision, in which the court required criminal defense counsel to advise about possible immigration consequences of a proposed plea. Professor Sweeney has collaborated with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender to develop a statewide response to support and train defense attorneys to carry out their responsibilities under Padilla. She serves on the board of directors of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and on advisory committees for the ACLU of Maryland, Kids in Need of Defense in Baltimore, and the Annapolis Immigration Justice Network. She is the recipient of the 2020 University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Public Servant of the Year Award, the 2019 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Service, the 2017 Public Service Award from the Hispanic Bar Association, and the 2016 Benjamin L. Cardin Distinguished Service Award from Maryland Legal Services.

Donald Tobin, JD

Tax Law

Election Law

Donald B. Tobin stepped down as dean at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and continues his commitment to Maryland Carey Law as a member of the faculty. Professor Tobin specializes in tax law and election law. Prior to joining academia, he worked on Capitol Hill as a professional staff member for U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D.-MD), the Senate Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He went to law school at night while working on the Hill. Later, he served as a law clerk for The Honorable Francis Murnaghan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and as an appellate attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Justice Department. Prior to his deanship at Maryland Carey Law, Professor Tobin was the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law and associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for faculty at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Professor Tobin’s research concentrates on tax policy and the way the tax code is often used to drive other policy outcomes. In the last 15 years, his work has mainly centered on the interaction between the tax code and election law. His scholarship on the use of the tax code to regulate campaigns and tax-exempt entities has been featured in such publications as the Georgetown Law Journal, First Amendment Law Review, Election Law Journal, and Georgia Law Review. He is also co-author, with Samuel A. Donaldson, of Federal Income Taxation: A Contemporary Approach, an interactive casebook. Professor Tobin has testified before the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight.

Kevin Tu, JD

business law

Professor Kevin Tu teaches and writes in the areas of commercial law, business law, banking and financial institution regulation, and technology. Professor Tu currently focuses his research on the regulation of new and emerging payment systems. His recent scholarship has appeared in the George Washington Law Review, Washington Law Review, Alabama Law Review and the Kansas Law Review, among other journals. Professor Tu brings extensive practical experience as a transactional attorney to the classroom. From 2006 until 2011, he practiced law at the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, an international law firm, where he represented business and financial institutional clients in a wide range of business transactions and regulatory compliance matters. Professor Tu's practice focused on: (1) representing issuers of consumer payment devices such as private label credit cards and stored value, (2) advising clients on the design of online and mobile commerce platforms and payment processing functions, (3) structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex single-bank and multi-bank secured and unsecured credit transactions; (4) representing companies in domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions with particular emphasis in the telecommunications and wireless industry; and (5) advising clients on physical and electronic distribution strategies, supply chain and manufacturing arrangements, and the development and implementation of vendor finance programs. Prior to joining the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2016, Professor Tu taught business and commercial law courses at the University of New Mexico School of Law, University of Oregon School of Law, and the University of Washington School of Law.

Michael Van Alstine, JD

International Law

Business Law

Professor Michael P. Van Alstine specializes in international and domestic private law. He has published widely in both English and German in the areas of comparative law, contracts, commercial law, and international commercial transactions. A particular area of scholarly interest is a comparative law analysis of treaties, specifically how different legal systems give effect to international treaties in or as domestic law. Professor Van Alstine has earned law degrees in both the United States and Germany. He received both his Doctor of Laws and Master of Comparative Law degrees summa cum laude from the University of Bonn, Germany. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree with high honors from the George Washington University in 1986. Before becoming a law professor, he practiced domestic and international commercial and business law at law firms in the United States and Germany. Prior to joining the faculty of Maryland Carey Law in 2002, Professor Van Alstine spent seven years on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, during which he was a four-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. At Maryland Carey Law, Professor Van Alstine teaches International Business Transactions, Contracts, Secured Transactions; and Sales and Sales Financing. He served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2006 to 2010 and was voted Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year in both 2016 and 2008. He also has taught in the Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in 2016 was selected for the Most Engaging in Class award in that program.

Liza Vertinsky, MA, JD, PhD

Heath Care and Technology

Health Care Law

Liza Vertinsky is a professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she teaches and researches topics at the intersection of law, economics and social justice. She is a nationally recognized expert on the regulation of healthcare markets and emerging technologies, the role of public private collaborations in innovation, and access to medicines. Professor Vertinsky clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus, first for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida and then for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She then practiced for a decade at two top law firms in the greater Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem, focusing on intellectual property transactions in the biomedical industry and university technology transfer. Professor Vertinsky joined the Emory Law School faculty in 2007, and the Maryland Carey Law faculty in July 2022. Her areas of expertise include the regulation of healthcare markets, the regulation of emerging technologies, AI and the law, global health law and policy, genetic privacy, intellectual property and innovation, and law and economics.

Marley Weiss, JD

Labor Law

Employment Law

Professor Weiss left the position of associate general counsel of the United Auto Workers to join the faculty as associate professor of law. Weiss had worked in the UAW Legal Department since her graduation from Harvard Law School. Professor Weiss spent her sabbatical leave in 1993–94, as a visiting professor at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, in Budapest, Hungary, and returned there as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer for the spring semester, 1997. Professor Weiss served as Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee to the U.S. National Administrative Office for the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement from 1994-2001. In 1996-1997, she served as Secretary-elect, and in 1997-1998, as Secretary, of the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law. Professor Weiss specializes in all facets of labor and employment law, including comparative and international aspects of the field, and has published on a wide range of related topics.