University of Maryland Regents Honor University of Baltimore Law Professor for Scholarship
April 9, 2001
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BALTIMORE -Mortimer Sellers of Roland Park, professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, has been selected to receive a 2001-02 University System of Maryland Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship. This award is the board's highest honor in recognition of exemplary faculty achievement.
One of the world's leading scholars in comparative and constitutional law, Sellers is director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he also teaches international law and legal theory. Sellers was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He studied as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in history and a B.C.L. in civil law.
In his scholarship, Sellers combines the disciplines of history and the law to explore the historical and philosophical roots of legal ideas and connect them to specific contemporary problems. His recent books include "The Sacred Fire of Liberty," on the history of the concept of liberty and "American Republicanism," on the origins of constitutional checks and balances. He has edited volumes on "Ethical Education" and "The New World Order" and has written numerous articles on jurisprudence, legal history and international law.
Sellers joined the University of Baltimore in 1989, after serving as judicial clerk for the Hon. James Hunter III of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
In nominating him for the award, UB President H. Mebane Turner said, "Professor Sellers has an international reputation in the fields of human rights law and constitutional theory, and has written important monographs and articles in both areas." Sellers has twice received UB's Spirit of Excellence award.
The University of Baltimore is an upper division, graduate and professional university. UB - the state's career-minded university - is a member of the University System of Maryland and comprises the School of Law, the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts and the Merrick School of Business.