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Upcoming Events

15
October

CAF and Cannoli's Presented by Professor Margaret Johnson

5 - 6:30 PM
29
October

Legal Pathways and Remedies in the Wake of Colonialism's Legacy: The Impacts of U.S. Nuclear Testing on the Marshall Islands

6 - 4:00 PM
20
November

A Summit on the Criminalization of Pregnancy and Parenting

12 - 6:00 PM

    Feminist Legal Theory in Action

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    One course, 13 professors: Applied Feminism from every lens

    March 27, 2026
    UBalt Stories

    Imagine a course where every week you get to engage with a different law professor in their area of expertise under the same theme. That’s exactly what The University of Baltimore School of Law students love about the Special Topics in Applied Feminism course.

     
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    Professor Margaret Johnson on Menstrual Equity Podcast

    March 13, 2026
    UBalt Law

    Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, Professor of Law, Director of the Bronfein Family Law Clinic, and Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism, Margaret Johnson joined a national podcast hosted by Ayushmaan Mukherjee and Mikah Gay of the Menstrual Equity Initiative (MĚI)

    Center activity

     
    • Teaching and Learning - Organized Special Topics in Applied Feminism course.
    • Teaching and Learning - Supporting Reproductive Justice course.
    • Legislative advocacy - Coordinated student working group on legislative initiative with a Maryland reproductive justice organization.
    • Scholarship - CAF student research assistant attended Faculty Research and Development events.
    • Careers - Organizing career panel on gender justice jobs with Law Career Development Office.
    • Scholarship - Organized annual Theodora Talks, research talks on gender and social justice by UBalt Law faculty aimed at UBalt Law students. This year, Professor Margaret Johnson presented her article about the Maryland Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment, Professor Afton Cavanaugh presented his article relating to the use of dead names in trusts and estates, and Professor Dan Hatcher presented on his scholarship relating to child support.
    • Teach In - CAF created a teach in within 24 hours of the news that period products in the UBalt Law men’s bathrooms had been vandalized. Professor Chrysanthymum Desir spoke about violence against transgender people in Maryland, Professor Johnson spoke about menstrual justice and the need for menstrual products for trans men who menstruate, and Dean Manrique spoke about student support and resources.
    • Networking - Held annual CAF & Cannolis student networking event with students and faculty interested in gender justice. 
      Legislative advocacy - Coordinated student working group on legislative initiative with a Maryland reproductive justice organization.
    • Scholarship - CAF student research assistant attended Faculty Research and Development events.
    • Careers - Worked with the Center on Applied Feminism Student Associates to update fellowship and internship listings related to gender and social justice jobs. 
    • Movement Building - Worked with the Center on Applied Feminism Student Associates to organize and coordinate events with Wake Forest law students who traveled to UBalt Law for Law Review Symposium on state responses to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. that Center on Applied Feminism co-sponsored.
    • Advocacy - Professor Margaret E. Johnson spoke regarding the new presidential administration and its regulation of  abortion and reproductive freedom.
    • Networking - Held annual CAF & Cannolis student networking event with students and faculty interested in gender justice.
    • Scholarship - Organized annual Theodora Talks, research talks on gender and social justice by UBalt Law faculty aimed at UBalt Law students. This year, Professor Michele Gilman presented her welfare fraud paper and Professor Margaret Johnson presented her Menstrual Justice after Dobbs paper.
    • Scholarship - The Center on Applied Feminism co-sponsored UBalt Law Review’s symposium on state responses to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. on March 28, 2025 
      Careers - Organizing career panel on gender justice jobs with Law Career Development Office.
    • Advocacy -Co-sponsored with UBalt Law If/When/How student group live viewing of and discussion Maryland Supreme Court argument in Akers v. State regarding a criminal murder prosecution of a woman who said she had a still birth.
    • Advocacy - Co-sponsored with UBalt Law If/When/How student group panel  on Maryland Reproductive Freedom Constitutional Amendment, Question 1 Referendum (Speakers Alice Wilkerson, Executive Director, Advance Maryland; Yveka Pierre, Legislative Director, If/When/How; Professor Margaret E. Johnson)
    • Teaching and Learning - Professor Margaret Johnson spoke about LGBTQIA+ legal issues and Supreme Court at panel sponsored by UBalt Law OUTLaw and Trans Law Student Associations.