
Law School Professor Emeritus
Phone: (410) 706-3836BA, 1962, Harvard College
JD, 1967, George Washington University
Biography
Professor Wolf served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Tunisia from 1962 to 1964. In 1967 he started the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services. Professor Wolf was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow with the Washington, DC, Neighborhood Legal Services Program from 1968 to 1970.
He was director of the Columbus Community Legal Services and director of the Clinical Law Program at Catholic University from 1970 to 1973, and taught at the law school until 1978 when he left to farm and start a vineyard. He has been teaching at the University of Maryland law school since 1982, and is the past director of the Clinical Law Program at the law school. Most recently, he directed the mediation clinic, taught courses in dispute resolution, and directed the law school’s Center for Dispute Resolution (C-DRUM).
Professor Wolf was the reporter for the Special Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Maryland State Bar Association, is past chair of The Section for Dispute Resolution of the State Bar and The Baltimore City Bar, was appointed by Chief Judge Robert Bell of the Court of Appeals to the Maryland ADR Commission and is chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) and a member of its executive committee. Professor Wolf has extensive mediation experience both as a trainer and mediator. In 2004, he received the Leadership in Law Award from The Daily Record.