Strategic Plan: Goal 4

OBJECTIVE 4.1: Foster the production of high-quality scholarship that reaches a wide audience and promotes the public good.

STRATEGIES

1. Encourage and help faculty to bring their scholarship to a wider audience by using traditional and emerging methods of creating and disseminating scholarship.
2. Maintain competitive summer stipends to support faculty scholarship.
3. Actively seek to attract and retain faculty who will engage in the law school’s scholarly mission.
4. Provide active mentorship for junior faculty as well as resources and time to develop, workshop, and promote their scholarship.
5. Nurture groundbreaking scholarship by creating new faculty professorships, which recognize outstanding scholarship and teaching.
6. Increase engagement among faculty, including the law school centers and the local, national, and international legal community, to enhance mutual recognition and collaboration in connection with areas of expertise.
7. Expand the law library’s capacity to support faculty research.

OBJECTIVE 4.2: Maintain an engaged and productive intellectual environment at the law school that supports scholarly endeavors and the free exchange of ideas.

STRATEGIES

1. Sponsor conferences and other academic gatherings that offer opportunities for the exchange of ideas and that bring prominent scholars and policymakers to campus.
2. Support internal programs, centers, clinics, and local networks to develop scholarship, including workshops, thematic clusters of faculty, and the exchange of scholarship-related information.
3. Train students in the scholarly method through research assistant positions, seminars, and other settings, and promote and support student scholarship.
4. Stay current with emerging technologies for engaging and disseminating scholarship, and train faculty and students about new modalities and tools.
5. Engage with University of Baltimore scholars outside the law school to collaborate on projects and to share faculty scholarship.
6. Provide enhanced opportunities for faculty to teach seminars and other courses that build upon their scholarly expertise.
7. Increase administrative and logistical support to coordinate conferences, symposia, and other academic gatherings.

UBalt Law seeks to nurture a community of scholars whose work both enriches teaching and advances law and policy.

UBalt Law seeks to provide its faculty with a range of opportunities to showcase their scholarship and to enhance its reach and impact. We seek to encourage robust debate about legal issues, with a diversity of viewpoints and a variety of scholarly perspectives. UBalt Law has a tradition of producing scholarship that is innovative, accessible, and responsive to emerging issues in law and society. We have a history of faculty collaboration within and outside the law school and of supporting student scholarship. We must continue these traditions, while enhancing the school’s capacity to disseminate its scholarship to others and to effectuate change through new scholarly ideas.