
Jacob A. France Professor of Public Interest Law
Phone: (410) 706-8340
Fax: (410) 706-5856
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Office: 338
BA, 1966, Dartmouth College
JD, 1969, Georgetown University
Professor Millemann began his legal career as a legal services attorney. He served as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow in the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau from 1969 to 1971. For the next two years he was chief attorney in Legal Aid East, Baltimore City and supervisor of the law school's Legal Aid Clinic. During this time, Professor Millemann founded the Legal Aid Bureau's Prisoner Assistance Project and worked as a staff attorney for the National Prison Project. During 1973 he was deputy director of the Multnomah County, Oregon Legal Aid Service. He returned to Maryland to teach full-time at the University of Maryland School of Law in 1974.
During 197981, Professor Millemann was chief general counsel and chief of the Civil Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office, responsible for ultimately supervising the assistant attorneys general who practice civil law. Professor Millemann has been chairman of the Maryland State Bar Association's Judicial Nominations Committee. Professor Millemann was the first Secretary to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation and a longtime Board Member and chairman of the Correctional Reform Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. He has both published extensively and participated as an attorney in major constitutional litigation.
Teaching Legal Research and Writing with Actual Legal Work: Extending Clinical Education into the First Year, 12 Clinical Law Review 441 (2006) (with Steven D. Schwinn). [Full Text]
The State Due Process Justification for a Right to Counsel in Some Civil Cases, 15 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 733 (2006). [Full Text]
Collateral Remedies in Maryland to Challenge Criminal Convictions: An Assessment, 64 Maryland Law Review 968 (2005).
Preferring White Lives: The Racial Administration of the Death Penalty in Maryland, 5 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 1 (2005) (with Gary Christopher).
Collateral Remedies in Criminal Cases in Maryland: An Assessment, 64 Maryland Law Review 968 (2005).
Institutional Barriers and Advantages in Reforming Professional Responsibility Curricula, 39 William & Mary Law Review 489 (1998).
Limited-Service Representation and Access to Justice: An Experiment, 11 American Journal of Family Law 1 (1997) (with others).
Rethinking the Full-Service Legal Representational Model: A Maryland Experiment, 30 Clearinghouse Review 1178 (1997) (with others).
Ethical Decisionmaking and Ethics Instruction in Clinical Law Practice, 3 Clinical Law Review 109 (1996) (with others). [Full Text]
Good Judgment: Ethics Teaching in Dark Times, 9 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 31 (1995) (with David Luban).
Mandatory Pro Bono In Civil Cases: A Partial Answer To The Right Question, 49 Maryland Law Review 18 (1990).
Capital Post-Conviction Petitioners' Right To Counsel: Integrating Access To Court Doctrine And Due Process Principles, 48 Maryland Law Review 455 (1989).
Preventive Law In Government Practice, 64 Denver University Law Review 443 (1988).
The Role of the Supreme Court: Judicial Activism or Self-Restraint?, 47 Maryland Law Review 155 (1988).
An Agenda for Prisoner Rights Litigation, in 2 Prisoners' Rights Sourcebook (1980).
The Prisoners' Right to Stay Where He Is: State and Federal Transfer Compacts Run Afoul of Constitutional Due Process, 3 Capital University Law Review 223 (1974) (with others).
Due Process Behind the Walls, in Prisoners' Rights Sourcebook (1973).
Protected Inmate Liberties: A Case for Judicial Responsibility, 53 Oregon Law Review 29 (1973).
Litigating an Affirmative Prisoners' Rights Action, 11 American Criminal Law Review 39 (1972) (with others).
Prison Disciplinary Hearings and Procedural Due Process - The Requirement of a Full Administrative Hearing, 31 Maryland Law Review 27 (1971), reprinted in Prisoners' Rights, PLI Course Handbook Series No. 46 (1972).
The Unconstitutionality of Prison Life, 55 Virginia Law Review 795 (1969) (with Philip J. Hirschkop).