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Barbara Bezdek
Professor of Law
Phone: (410) 706-8392
Fax: (410) 706-5856
E-mail:
Office: 347
BA, 1975, University of South Carolina
JD, 1978, Columbia University
LLM, 1986, Georgetown University
Professor Bezdek regularly teaches the clinical seminar, Legal Theory and Practice: Community Development. Students in the seminar assist clients in low-income communities by developing legal strategies that support the community’s own revitalization objectives.
Professor Bezdek is founder and chairperson of the Faith Fund, Inc., a community development loan fund that lends
in the Baltimore area in innovative ways to generate fair and inclusive housing and economic opportunity. In operation since 2003, the fund has made loans to a number of organizations such as The Sylvan Beach Foundation (operates small businesses as a means of job training for disadvantaged youth) and the Episcopal Housing Corporation (renovates neglected housing stock and promotes homeownership).
Articles
Putting Community Equity in Community Development: Resident Equity Participation in Urban Redevelopment, in Law, Society, and Property (Robin Malloy & Nestor Davidson eds., 2009). [Full Text]
To Attain "the Just Rewards of So Much Struggle": Local Resident Equity Participation in Urban Redevelopment, 35 Hofstra Law Review 37 (2006). [Full Text]
To Forge New Hammers of Justice: Deep-Six the Doing-Teaching Dichotomy and Embrace the Dialectic of "Doing Theory", 4 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 301 (2004). [Full Text]
Language Matters: Designing State and County Contracts for Services Under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, 35 Clearinghouse Review 508 (2002) (with others). [Full Text]
Contractual Welfare: Non-Accountability and Diminished Democracy in Local Government Contracts for Welfare-to-Work Services, 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1559 (2001). [Full Text]
Reflections on the Practice of a Theory: Law, Teaching and Social Change, 32 Loyola-L.A. Law Review 707 (1999). [Full Text]
Religious Outlaws: Narratives of Legality and the Politics of Citizen Interpretation, 62 Tennessee Law Review 899 (1995). [Full Text]
Clinical Law Programs of the University of Maryland School of Law, 9 Journal of Professional Legal Education 111 (1992). [Full Text]
The CUNY Law Program: Integration of Doctrine, Practice and Clinical Law Programs of the University of Maryland School of Law, 9 Journal of Professional Legal Education 111 (1992). [Full Text]
Legal Theory and Practice Development at the University of Maryland: One Teacher's Experience in Programmatic Context, 42 Washington University Journal of Urban & Contemporary Law 127 (1992). [Full Text]
Reconstructing a Pedagogy of Responsibility, 43 Hastings Law Review 1159 (1992). [Full Text]
Silence in the Court: Participation and Subordination of Poor Tenants' Voices in Legal Process, 20 Hofstra Law Review 533 (1992). [Full Text]
