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Recent Faculty Scholarship for 2025

Last updated Oct. 16, 2025

Books

  • Gilda Daniels, Editor, The History of Voting in the United States, Cambridge Companion Series (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026).
  • Eric B. Easton,  Lawyers of the Old Left: Morris Hillquit, Seymour Stedman & Charles Recht (2025).
  • Nienke Grossman, Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law (Nienke Grossman, J. Jarpa Dawuni,  Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, eds.) (Oxford University Press 2025). 
  • Michael Higginbotham, Race Law (6th ed. 2025).
  • Amy E. Sloan, Using Generative AI for Legal Research (2d ed. 2025).
  • Colin Starger, Md. State Bar Ass’n, Maryland Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (3d ed. 2025 update) (reporter).
  • Jessica Lynn Wherry & Kristen E. Murray, Scholarly Writing: Examples Ideas, and Execution, and Teacher’s Manual (4th ed. 2025).

Book Chapters

  • John D. Bessler, “Conflicted Justices and a Divided Court: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Jurisprudence,” in The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem 139 (Todd C. Jamie Almallen Peppers & Mary Welek Atwell eds., 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “The Relevance and Prejudice of Poverty Evidence,” in Critical Evidence (I. Bennett Jasmine Harris Capers & Julia Simon-Kerr, eds., forthcoming 2026).

  • Nienke Grossman, “Why and How We Should Apply Feminist Lenses to International Courts and Tribunals” in 49th Course on International Law Course (Organization of American States 2025).

  •  Nienke Grossman, “Feminism, Approach to International Law,” in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2025).

  •  Claudio Grossman and Nienke Grossman, “The Velásquez Rodríguez Case: Its Role in the Development of the Inter-American Human Rights System and Impact,” in International Law Stories (Laura Dickinson, Mark Janis, John Noyes, & Carlos Vázquez, eds.) (Foundation Press 2025).  

  • Margaret E. Johnson & Linda Steele, “Confronting Menstruation: Menstrual Justice and Sterilization in the United States and Australia,” in Families and the Human Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health (Barbara Stark ed., forthcoming 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson & Macarena Iribarne Gonzalez, “Abortion,” in Sage Encyclopedia of Menstruation and Society (Bee Hughes & Kay Standing, eds., forthcoming 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Surviving the ‘Child Welfare System’,” in Policing and Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance (NYU Press 2025) (with Erin Carrington Smith).

Articles

  • Jose Anderson, "Rails of Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston, Alabama, and the Search for Equal Rights," 15 Faulkner L. Rev. 163 (2024).
  • Jose Anderson, "Attorney Charles Hamilton Houston’s Fabulous Five of Philadelphia," Pennsylvania State Bar Association Newsletter (May 2025).
  • Marta Baffy, “Teaching Legal Analysis Through the Lens of Second Language Pedagogy: A Consciousness-Raising Approach,” 73 J. Legal Educ. 850 (2025).
  • John D. Bessler, “International Abolitionist Advocacy: The Rise of Global Networks to Advance Human Rights and the Promise of the Worldwide Campaign to Abolish Capital Punishment,” 34 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2025).
  • John D. Bessler, “Lost and Found: The Forgotten Origins of the ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishments’ Prohibition,” 14 Brit. J. Am. Legal Stud. 213 (2025).
  • Fred B. Brown & Josh Friedman, “Reforming the Effectively Connected Income Rules to More Accurately Capture U.S. Business Income,” 79 Tax Law. (forthcoming Spring 2026).
  • Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh, “Statutory Time Travel and Tax Discrimination: Expanding Tax Return Amendment Limitation Rules to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Recoup Tax Overpayments,” 94.1 UMKC L. Rev. (forthcoming fall 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “Ending the Cycles of Voter Suppression,” 60 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L.Rev. 37 (2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “Democracy's Distrust: The Supreme Court's Anti-Voter Decisions as a Threat to Democracy,” 134 Yale L.J. Forum 1062 (2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “The Impact of Proptech and the Datafication of Real Estate on the Human Right to Housing,” 9 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 444 (2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “Code & Consequence: How Fraud Detection Algorithms Criminalize Welfare,” 39 Harv. J. L. & Tech. (forthcoming).
  • Valeria Gomez, “The New Abortion Borders for Immigrant Women,” 43 Minn. J. L. & Inequality 1 (2025).
  • Daniel L. Hatcher, “Child Support Factory: Racist Harm History, and Unconstitutionality of the Child Support System's Contractual Operations,” Wm. & Mary J. of Gender Race, and Soc. Just. (forthcoming 2026).
  • William Hubbard & Colin Starger, “The Collision Course Between Outdated State Laws and Automated Vehicles,” 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 2293 (2025).
  • Robert Knowles, "How Lochnerism Ends,” 56 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Menstrual Justice After Dobbs,” 2025 Wis. L. Rev. 675 (2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Maryland Reproductive Freedom and the Full Personhood of Pregnant People,” The Harbinger, NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change (forthcoming 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “More on More Than Play,” New Eng. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
  • Neha Lall, “Paying Dividends: An Empirical Examination of How Student Compensation Enhances Externships,” 59 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Richard Luedeman, “Anti-Allyship and the Indirect Subordination of Queer People,” 101 Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Zina Makar, “The Datafication of Incarceration: Rethinking Carceral Privacy for Digital Spaces,” 135 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Zina Makar, “The Digital Prison Panopticon,” 38 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 961 (2025). 
  • Zina Makar, “Towards Pretrial Neutrality,” Hou. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Michael Meyerson, “When One Door Closes: Legal Education and Racial Justice After Students for Fair Admissions,” 103 Neb. L. Rev. 325, 326 (2025).
  • Michael Meyerson, “Reimagining Legal Education: The Transformative Power of Small-Group Instruction,” 46 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). 
  • Walter Schwidetzky, “The Otay Sham,” 188 Tax Notes 461 (2025), https://www.taxnotes.com/lr/resolve/tax-notes-today-global/the-otay-sham/7sxqg.
  • Walter Schwidetzky, “Related Party Partnerships: The Ultimate Tax Dodge,” Tax Law. (forthcoming Oct. 2025).
  • Matthew Sipe, “Trademasks,” 104 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
  • Colin Starger & William Hubbard, “The Collision Course Between Outdated State Laws and Automated Vehicles,” 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 2293 (2025).
  • Ioanna Tourkochoriti, “Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards A Divided Internet?,” 15 NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Using the Restatement of Children and the Law to Consider the Harm of Removal,” 63 Fam. Ct. Rev. 446 (2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Parenting as a Crime,” 15 Cal. L. Rev. 13 (2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “The Hidden Pain of Family Policing,” N.Y.U. Rev. Law & Soc. Change (forthcoming 2025).
  • Jessica Lynn Wherry, “Denied by Dysfunctional Design: How the DD-293 Application Form Thwarts Pro Se Veteran-Applicants’ Discharge Upgrade Requests,” 74 Am. Univ. L. Rev. 1057 (2025).
  • Jessica Lynn Wherry, “The Military Discharge Review Boards’ Irregular Presumption of Regularity,” 29 Chap. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Jessica Lynn Wherry & Frances C. DeLaurentis, “Humans at the Center of Legal Writing with Generative AI as an Evolving Component of the Legal Writing Process,” 8 Stetson L. Rev. F. 1 (2025).
  • Andrew J. Ziaja, “Machinists Preemption in the New Administrative Law,” 48 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. 989 (2025).
  • Sonya Ziaja, “Environmental Geography and Law: Towards a Synthesis,” 99.4 Tul. L. Rev. 811 (2025).
  • Sonya Ziaja, “Of Climate Justice and Magical Realism,” 124 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

Presentations

  • Jose Anderson, Introduction Speaker, "Legacy of Pursuing Equal Justice Under Law for 100 Years," Washington Bar Association Centennial Luncheon, George E.C. Hayes Fellowship Hall People's Congregational Church, Washington D.C. (Jan. 18, 2025).
  • Jose Anderson, Speaker, "Representing Clients Demanding Black Empowerment or Engaging in Civil Disobedience," National Bar Association Centennial Convention, Chicago, Ill. (July 29, 2025).
  • Jose Anderson, Speaker, African American Civil War Museum and Freedom Foundation, Freedom Trail Walk and Symposium, Howard University Founder's Library and Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 16, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Looking Beyond War Crimes to Enforce the Human Connection to Heritage,” Maryland Law Review symposium (Feb. 21, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Litigating Cultural Heritage in International Tribunals,” Nagorno-Karabakh Yerevan Conference, Armenia (Feb. 29, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “De Facto Cultural Genocide,” Northeast Faculty Exchange Workshop, Villanova Univ. (Apr. 3, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Destruction of Cultural Heritage and International Law,” ABA Section on Int’l Law webinar (Apr. 9, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Cultural Destruction and War,” University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law 30th Anniversary (Apr. 10, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of War,” Berkeley Law Art, and Finance Symposium, San Francisco (May 8, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Historical Development of International Humanitarian Law Protecting Cultural Property,” Institute of International Humanitarian Law (May 9, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Accountability: Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law Beyond International Criminal Law,” International Law Association, Seoul, Korea (May 27, 2025).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Political Monuments as Cultural Property,” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul Univ. (Aug. 7, 2024).
  • Anne-Marie Carstens, “Collective NATO Defense, and Cultural Heritage,” European Society of Int’l Law (Sep. 10, 2025).
  • Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh, “Legal Writing for The NextGen Bar Exam,” Lone Star Legal Writing Conference, Baylor Univ. (Apr. 2025).
  • Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh, “Nursing the 1L Mind: Teaching Nursing Clinical Judgment to Help Cure Analytical Ills,” Capital Area Legal Writing Conference, Catholic Univ. of America (May 2025).
  • Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh, “Using ChatGPT and Generative AI in Legal Writing and Mediation,” Alamo Area Mediators San Antonio Association (Aug. 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “The Constitution: Its Promises and Challenges,” Constitution Day, The Center for Civic Education, Historic Annapolis (Sep. 17, 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “Voting in the 21st Century,” Voter Education Empowerment, Alfred Street Baptist Church (Sep. 20, 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “Supreme Court Preview,” Brennan Center, NYU (Sep. 30, 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, “Power to the People:  The Constitution, Its Promises and Challenges,” Constitution Day, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Va (Oct. 15, 2025).
  • Gilda Daniels, Keynote Speaker, “The Future of Voting Rights,” Minnesota Law Review Symposium, Minneapolis, Minn. (Nov. 14, 2025). 
  • Michele Gilman, “The Relevance and Prejudice of Poverty Evidence,” Fordham Law School (Feb. 4, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “Class,” Univ. of Maryland Law School (Mar. 7, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “From Home Visits to Robo-Adjudication,” Public Law Technology Collaborative (Mar. 19, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “From Home Visits to Robo-Adjudication,” Georgetown Univ. (Apr. 3, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “Rethinking Clinical Supervision,” AALS Annual Baltimore Conference (Apr. 27, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “Scholarship Support Facilitator Working Group,” AALS Annual Baltimore Conference (Apr. 29, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “From Home Visits to Robo-Adjudication,” Law & Society Association, Chicago, Ill. (May 23, 2025).
  • Michele Gilman, “From Home Visits to Robo-Adjudication,” Privacy Law Scholars Conference, UCLA (May 29, 2025).

  • Nienke Grossman, Speaker, “Is There a Role for International Courts in Ending War?”, The End of War Project, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 8, 2025).

  • Nienke Grossman, Speaker, “Work of the Inter-American Juridical Committee,” 50th OAS International Law Course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Aug. 4, 2025).

  • Nienke Grossman, Moderator and Co-Organizer, “Taking Stock of the Inclusive and Meaningful Participation of Women in International Law,” American Society of International Law (May 5, 2025).

  • Nienke Grossman, Speaker, “Bilingual in the Law,” Latin American Law Students Associations of the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (Feb. 20, 2025).

  • Nienke Grossman, Speaker and Participant, Symposium on Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 31, 2025).

  • Daniel L. Hatcher, “Child Support Factory,” ISFL North American Regional Conference, Temple Univ. (June 16, 2025).
  • Daniel L. Hatcher, “Inc. Injustice,” Washington & Lee Volunteer Venture Program, Univ. of Baltimore School of Law (Aug. 26, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Menstrual Justice: A Human Rights Vision,” Univ. Maryland, Baltimore (Mar. 6, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Menstrual Justice Post-Dobbs,” NYU Law (Mar. 14, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Reproductive Freedom and the Full Personhood of Pregnant People,” UBalt Law Review Symposium (Mar. 28, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Critical Legal Theory in More than Play,” Univ. of Baltimore (Apr. 17, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Confronting Menstruation: Menstrual Justice and Sterilization in the United States and Australia,” Law & Society Association Conference, Chicago, Ill. (May 22, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Discussant,” Law & Society Association Conference, Chicago, Ill. (May 22 and 24, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Maryland Reproductive Freedom,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Drexel Law School (June 18, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, “Commentator,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Drexel Law School (June 18, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, Linda Steele & Dani Barrington, “Menstrual Justice: A Human Rights Vision for Australia,” Human Rights Commissioners, Australia (July 2, 2025).
  • Margaret E. Johnson, ”Maryland Reproductive Freedom and the Full Personhood of Pregnant People,” Personhood and Pregnancy Symposium, NYU Law (Oct. 10. 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “More Than Play,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (May 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “More on More Than Play,” New England Law Review Symposium (Oct. 30, 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “The Law and Policy Framework for Youth Sports,” Aspen Institute (Oct. 21, 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “More Than Play,” New Jersey Youth Sports Conference (Nov. 5, 2025).
  • Dionne Koller, “Senate Testimony: Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Science Commerce & Transportation” (June 17, 2025).
  • Savannah Long, “Animal Policies in Libraries: Balancing Safety, Accessibility, and Inclusion,” AALL Annual Portland Meeting (July 21, 2025).
  • Janet E. Lord, “Grotian Traditions and Disability in De jure belli ac pacis,” Leiden Univ., The Hague (June 20, 2025).
  • Zina Makar, “The Datafication of Incarceration,” UCLA-Michigan Law Round Table (Apr. 2025).
  • Zina Makar, “The Datafication of Incarceration,” Privacy Law Scholars Conference (May 2025).
  • Zina Makar, “The Datafication of Incarceration,” Harvard Law Culp Colloquium (June 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “The Military’s Abortion Crisis in the Aftermath of Dobbs,” UBalt Law (Mar. 11, 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “Reproductive Freedoms Post-Dobbs,” UBalt Law Review Symposium (Mar. 28, 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “Discussion on the Military Transgender Ban,” Veterans’ Legal Assistance Conference, UBalt Law (Apr. 4, 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “Discharge Characterizations,” Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic Symposium (Apr. 11, 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “AI and the Administrative State,” AALS Conference, Baltimore (Apr. 29, 2025).
  • Hugh McClean, “Introduction to Nondirective Supervision,” Veterans Clinic Consortium Boot Camp (Sep. 5, 2025).
  • Matthew Sipe, “Trademasks,” RED Talks series, UBalt (Mar. 2025).
  • Matthew Sipe, “Trademarks as the Anti-Antitrust,” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul Univ. (Aug. 2025).
  • Ioanna Tourkochoriti, “Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory as a Form of Hate Speech?,” UBalt Comparative Law Workshop (June 13, 2025).
  • Ioanna Tourkochoriti, “Comparative Law and Philosophy of History,” UBalt Law Conference (Apr. 10, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Domestic and State Violence After Dobbs,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Drexel Law School, Philadelphia, Pa. (Jun. 17, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Domestic and State Violence After Dobbs,” International Society of Family Law, Temple Law School, Philadelphia, Pa. (June 16, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Domestic and State Violence After Dobbs,” Richmond Junior Faculty Forum, Richmond Law School, Richmond, Va. (May 28, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “The Hidden Pain of Family Policing,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill. (May 23, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Domestic and State Violence After Dobbs,” Maryland/UBalt Law Junior Faculty Forum, Baltimore, Md. (Apr. 24, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, Speaker, Children and Families Institute Conference, Boise, Idaho (Apr. 17, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, Panelist, Health Law and Advancing Equitable Access to Care for Youth, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.  (Apr. 11, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, Panelist, Symposium on State Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Battle to Secure Reproductive Freedom, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Md (Mar. 28, 2025).
  • Shanta Trivedi, “Teaching Parent, Child and the State,” AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Cal. (Jan 7, 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, “The U.S. Justice System under Attack,” Univ. of Norway Bergen (Apr. 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, “On Democratic Backsliding in the U.S. and Antecedents in Europe,” Leiden Univ., Netherlands (Apr. 1, 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, “Pardon Power: How the Pardon System Works—and Why,” Vienna, Austria (Apr. 30, 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, Speaker, Max Planck Heidelberg Institute, Germany (May 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, “Checks out of Balance: Safeguarding U.S. Democracy,” Univ. of Amsterdam (May 16, 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle with Steven Pinker, “What Are We Defending?,” Leiden Univ. (June 2025).
  • Kimberly Wehle, “Exploring Challenges to U.S. Constitutional Norms,” Leiden Univ., The Hague (June 5, 2025).
  • Andrew J. Ziaja, “Hot Topics in Administrative Law,” Federal ALJ Chicago Conference (Sep. 9, 2025).
  • Andrew J. Ziaja, “46th Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture in Labor Law,” Chicago-Kent College of Law (Apr. 1, 2025).
  • Sonya Ziaja, “Regulation Rights, and Justice in a Changing Climate,” Law and Society Chicago Association (May 23, 2025).