At The University of Baltimore, we provide knowledge that works. Get real-world career preparation and the hands-on experience employers demand at a fraction of the cost of other universities. Pick courses that fit your schedule and create an education tailored to your vision and needs. Welcome to UBalt!
The UBalt School of Law’s centers are designed to help you customize your legal education
and allow you to pursue work you’re passionate about while enriching your knowledge
of the law. Our centers foster academic leadership, community engagement and advocacy
for innovative legal policy.
By participating in a center’s work, you will help effect change in the legal system.
You’ll also have the opportunity to enhance your oral advocacy and writing skills
by competing for a spot on one of the law school’s advocacy teams or by joining a
student-run journal.
The Center on Applied Feminism works to apply the insights of feminist theory to create social change and to reform
law. In addition to holding conferences and regular colloquia on emerging legal areas
that intersect with feminism, the center sponsors the Special Topics in Applied Feminism
course and helps students plan for careers in feminist advocacy.
The center co-sponsored with the UBalt Law Review the 11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference: Applied Feminism and #MeToo. The conference
mixed activism and scholarship focusing on sexual harassment and gender-based violence
law. Sixteen scholars and practitioners presented papers concerning a wide array of
legal topics, from sexual assaults during police searches to the credibility of survivors
in courtrooms.
The center assisted a student effort to have menstrual products provided free of charge
throughout the law building. Center members continued to work with UBalt School of
Law students and the Reproductive Justice Inside coalition to create model policies
for reproductive health care and menstrual hygiene product access for Maryland correctional
facilities.
The Center for Criminal Justice Reform supports community-driven efforts to improve public safety and address the harm and
inequity caused by the criminal legal system, bringing together diverse voices and
decision-makers to examine how the criminal legal system currently functions, and
to collaborate on strategies that promote justice throughout the country and in Baltimore.
Launched in January 2022, the center has hosted several impactful events, including
“Innocence Isn’t Enough: The Intentionally High Bar to Exoneration,” a panel discussion
on racial disparities in prosecution in Baltimore, a panel on juvenile justice reform
in Maryland, and a discussion with the author of the investigative report on the Baltimore
Police Department’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force.
The Center for International and Comparative Law studies human rights, democratic institutions, international trade, international
courts and the legal basis of international relations. It also sponsors learning opportunities
involving a broad range of international law topics for students, staff and faculty
at the law school. The center houses the Secretariat of the American Society of Comparative
Law and directs the publication of its book series, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law. The center also directs the publication of the series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory for the American Society of International
Law.
Center members engaged in public outreach activities, including panels involving comparative
perspectives on the #MeToo movement, feminist approaches to international adjudication,
and gender and racial diversity before international courts and tribunals. The center
welcomed Richard Verma, former U.S. Ambassador to India, and Monica Pinto, special
rapporteur to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
as John Sumner Stead lecturers. It also organized a field trip to the Organization
of American States and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for three law
school courses, which involved a simulation on migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Simon Tam performs an acoustic show after discussing his landmark free-speech case before the Supreme Court.
The Center for the Law of Intellectual Property and Technology promotes research, education and legal practice in three intertwined areas of law.
One aspect of the center’s focus is intellectual property law, including copyright
law, patent law, trade secret law and trademark law. The center also examines and
publicizes legal issues stemming from the use of cutting-edge technologies. Finally,
it supports the use of technology to understand the law.
In September 2019, the center sponsored a lecture and performance by Simon Tam, frontman
of The Slants, who fought and won a trademark case in the Supreme Court.
The Center for Sport and the Law sponsors academic symposia, generates scholarship and engages in community partnerships.
It provides students with an enhanced understanding of the legal structures and institutions
that shape various athletic contexts and offers opportunities for real-world application
of their knowledge in the increasingly complex sports industry.
The 12th Annual UBalt Sports Law Symposium, So You Want a Job in Sports Law?, featured
talks by prominent football agents Tom Condon, J.D. ’81, and Tony Agnone, J.D. ’78;
Nicholas B. Hawkins, J.D. ’15, of Under Armour; and Brandon Etheridge, general counsel
of the Baltimore Ravens. Numerous university athletic and NCAA compliance directors
and other professional sports officials also spoke and answered student questions.
The Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts is a national leader in promoting family law and family court reform that incorporates
therapeutic jurisprudence and the ecology of human development. The center is committed
to ensure that the family justice system in Maryland, the nation and the world improves
the lives of children and families and the health of communities.
The Center’s Truancy Court Program, now in its 15th year, operated in five Baltimore
City public schools. Its 11th annual Urban Child Symposium, Housing and the Urban
Child: Exploring the Landscape, attracted national scholars and featured a keynote
address by Peter Edelman, a professor at Georgetown University. The center also completed
a project to develop a model unified family court for Douglas County, Nebraska, and
continued to lead the implementation of the nation’s first Post-J.D. Certificate in
Family Law.
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