University of Baltimore School of Law
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Awards and Honors
Joseph Curtis Professor of Law
Education
Master of Laws, Cambridge University
J.D., Yale University
B.A., Brown University
Areas of Expertise
Constitutional Law
Equal Protection
Human Rights
Race Relations
Biography
Before joining the faculty in 1988, Higginbotham was a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil F. Poole, an associate with Davis, Polk and Wardwell in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has published articles in numerous law reviews including in the New York University Law Review, University of Hawaii Law Review, Howard University Law Journal, and the University of Illinois Law Review.
Higginbotham is the co-founder of the Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence and is the former interim dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, the former President of the Public Justice Center, the former chair of the Maryland Attorney General's Task Force on Electronic Weapons, and the former chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.