Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Dean & Professor Phoebe A. Haddon
Targeted News Service - Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, dean of the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, said she thought about Justice Thurgood Marshall when Sotomayor was nominated, and what experiences and stories the first African-American Supreme Court judge was able to relate to his fellow jurists. "We all live different experiences," she said. "And having a diverse court is very important for that reason." Read more
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Professor Michael Greenberger
Global Research - A report by the Government Accountability Office recommended that derivatives be tightly regulated and in 1998, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a woman named Brooksley Born, agreed. More regulation wasn't exactly what Goldman had in mind. "The banks go crazy they want it stopped," says Michael Greenberger, JD, who worked for Born as director of trading and markets at the CFTC and is now a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. Read more
Monday, August 3, 2009
Adjunct Professor Andrew Baida
The Daily Record - Andrew Baida, JD, an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at the University of Maryland School of Law, wrote in a column that: "Just because a decision isn't stamped with the word 'Reported' on the cover page does not mean that it should be kept out of the public domain." Read more
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Jacob A. France Professor Michael Millemann & Assistant Professor Renee Hutchins
The Baltimore Sun - However you feel about putting juveniles in prison, the matter of Mark Farley Grant demands attention because it is likely he did not commit the crime for which he has been so profoundly penalized. In fact, students at the University of Maryland School of Law and their professors are convinced of it. The students of two professors, Renee Hutchins, JD, and Michael Millemann, JD, took two years to research Mr. Grant's case before deciding to take it on. Read more
Friday, July 31, 2009
Professor Michael Greenberger
American Banker, Financial-Planning.com - Two House committee chairman said they were close to a final agreement on a bill that would significantly curb trading of credit-default swaps and provide strong incentives for banks to bring contracts on to regulated exchanges. Michael Greenberger, JD, a professor at the School of Law and a former director at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is quoted.
