UB in the News
Law Professor Charles Tiefer Suggests Solution to "Forever Wars"
September 9, 2019, Lawfare
Patrol Cars Pulled From Street Should Not Inhibit Police Work, According to Professor Ross
June 5, 2019, Fox News
Professor Davis Discusses History of FBI Profiling of Black Owned Bookstores
June 5, 2019, American Bookseller's Association
Upcoming events
Yoga Saturday by Students Supporting the Women's Law Ctr.
September 21, 2019
Maryland Legal Aid Summer Fellowship Info Session
September 24, 2019
Excel 3: Working with Numbers
September 24, 2019
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BNIA Provides City with Analysis of Its Capital Improvements, with Eye Toward Equity
September 16, 2019
A report developed by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute at the University of Baltimore and the Baltimore Department of Planning provides detailed analysis of the city's and billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program (CIP), with the goal of assessing the level of equity of the program in terms of race and income. With these results in hand, the city will develop a more equitable strategy of distribution of CIP funding across city neighborhoods.
Digital Whimsy Lab Hosts World Interaction Design Day - Baltimore, on Sept. 24
September 11, 2019
The University of Baltimore's Digital Whimsy Lab - home base for UB students and faculty working on important questions about computers and users - will host World Interaction Design Day, a roundtable discussion covering topics related to the intersection of interaction design, responsibility, and Baltimore. It will take place on Sept. 24.
Explore the Fascinating Trademark Case of The Slants with Front Man Simon Tam, Sept. 20
August 27, 2019
On Sept. 20, the University of Baltimore School of Law and Womble Bond Dickinson LLP will present an evening of discussion and acoustic music with Simon Tam, front man of The Slants, an Asian-American band founded to challenge racial stereotypes and named to defang a derogatory epithet. Ironically, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to trademark the band's name, declaring it a disparaging term for people of Asian-American descent. The resulting lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court, and Tam and the band won in a unanimous free-speech decision.