Congratulations on your admission to Maryland Carey Law!

I welcome you on behalf of our entire community, and eagerly anticipate you joining us in August 2026.

Whether you plan to pursue traditional legal practice or set your sights on a corporate, non-profit, or entrepreneurial path, Maryland’s nationally-ranked specialty programs and abundant experiential learning opportunities in the second largest legal market in the country provide our students with a strong foundation to excel in their career. 

As you decide which law school to attend this fall, I encourage you to join us for our Admitted Student Events, including both virtual and in-person events. We also offer tours and weekly class visit opportunities. Lastly, we hope you check out our library of recorded material, including webinars, panels, a virtual tour, and more.  

Again, congratulations and I look forward to meeting you soon.

Warmest regards,
Matthew Gavin, Esq.
Associate Dean for Admissions

Admitted Student In-Person Visit Opportunities

Tours
Fridays
We have designated group tours for admitted students scheduled for Fridays at 12:00 pm. You must register at least 24 hours in advance. Register here.

If that time does not work for you, please email us at admissions@law.umaryland.edu and we can accommodate other weekday tours. We are happy to work around your schedule and hope to see you on campus! 

Note: The law school will be undergoing renovations from May 18 until at least July 15, so we are unable to provide tours during that time period. In the meantime, we encourage you to check out our 360 walking/informational tour our virtual tour. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

Class Visits
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 
Class visits have concluded for the semester. We cannot accept walk-ins and you must register at least 24 hours in advance. Register here. 

Admitted Student In-Person Events

Admitted Student Days
Friday, February 27, 2026 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (check-in begins at 10:15 am); Register Here
Saturday, April 11, 2026 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am); Register Here

We are hosting two Admitted Student Days this spring. Learn about Maryland’s exceptional academic programs and hear the perspectives of current students, faculty, and administrators as they share what makes our law school unique. 

Admitted Student Virtual Events 

Registration information is forthcoming and dates are tentative. However, expect the following virtual events to take place this winter/spring!

Clinical Law Panel and Q&A
Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 5:00 pm; View the Recording (Password: MCLadmitted1!)
Hear from the Director of Maryland Carey Law's top ten nationally ranked Clinical Law program as well as current students about the 18 clinics offered at Maryland, specific cases/stores from those clinics, and why clinic is important. Learn about why all students who begin law school at Maryland Carey Law as full-time students are required to complete one of the 18 different clinics offered.

Alumni Panel
Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 5:00 pm; View the Recording (Password: MCLadmitted1!)
Maryland Carey Law alums will discuss their experiences at Maryland Carey Law, opportunities to work in DC, the national alumni network, and their careers.

• J'Naia Boyd, Partner, BakerHostetler; New York, NY
• Laura Dunn, Bailey Duquette PC; New York, NY
• Michelle Wilson, Deputy Director of Administration, DC Department of Corrections; Washington, DC
• Ben Link, Associate, Gallagher; Baltimore, MD
• Matt DuMont, Assistant State's Attorney, Baltimore City; Baltimore, MD
  
  

Life in the Charm City and DC Opportunities Student Q&A
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 5:00 pm; View the Recording here (Password: MCLadmitted1!)
Join Maryland Carey Law students for an overview of life in Baltimore and opportunities in DC.  They will discuss opportunities in Baltimore as well as commuting to and interning in DC. They will also discuss what a typical day looks like for a student working in DC. Then, have your questions answered via Q&A.

Housing Webinar
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 12:00 pm; View the Recording here (Password: MCLadmitted1!)
Current students will host a Housing Q&A where they will discuss the pros and cons of living both on and off campus and share information about their experiences living in Baltimore. They will also answer questions regarding housing, living in the city, and student life at Maryland Carey Law.

What to Expect 1L Year Faculty Q&A
Date Forthcoming
Join Maryland Carey Law Vice Dean Professor Deborah Eisenberg to learn about 1L Year and what you should do to prepare for law school over the next month. This Zoom event will cover what a typical day looks like for a 1L student and address different topics such as first year classes, staying up-to-date on readings, the Socratic method, 1L extracurricular opportunities, exams, work-life balance, and the atmosphere at Maryland Carey Law. 

Community Events 

Please email us at admissions@law.umaryland.edu to register for any of the below community events.

In Person

IP and Counterfeit Goods
Monday, October 27, 2025; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Join us for a panel discussion featuring Frank Lin, Senior Counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), and Joe Wheatley, Senior Counsel at Amazon. The panel will explore how IP laws are enforced through both criminal prosecution and civil litigation, with a focus on counterfeit products across industries and online marketplaces like Amazon. Panelists will share their insights into the legal framework of prosecuting IP violations, protecting IP rights, and navigating the challenges of enforcing IP rights in today’s global marketplace. 

Building Wealth By Protecting Heirs' Property Homeownership in Baltimore
Monday, November 17, 2025; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Baltimore's Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Monday, February 9, 2026; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Join a panel of experts from the Overdose Response for the City of Baltimore, Baltimore City Department of Law, and Network for Public Health Law's Harm Reduction Legal Project for a discussion about how legal frameworks, funding priorities and evidence-based practcies are shaping Baltimore's efforts to reduce harm and save lives. 

Alumni Panel on International Legal Practice 
Thursday, February 12, 2026; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Chacon Center for Immigrant Justice and International Law Society (ILS), Join former MJIL editors to hear about their professional and intellectual journeys following law school in different fields of international and comparative law and legal practice.

Fifty Years of International Law: Critical Reflections, Reimagined Horizons
Friday, February 13, 2026; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
This year's MJIL symposium will feature several leading international law scholars from the US and abroad engaging in a series of critical conversations with Maryland faculty doing innovative and important work in different aspects of international, comparative and transnational law. Maryland faculty participating include Professors Rabiat Akande, Peter Danchin, Mark Graber, Paula Monopoli, William Moon, Matiangai Sirleaf and Liza Vertinsky. All are welcome to attend and participate in any of the sessions

Justice in the Age of AI
Tuesday, March 3, 2026; 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Journal of Business and Technology Law is hosting its Annual Symposium: Justice in the Age of AI, featuring distinguished speakers from Academia and the Industry, the panels will explore emerging issues surrounding regulation and ethics. Find more information here. 

Purpose-Driven Compliance
Wednesday, March 4, 2026; 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Business Law Program welcomes our 2026 Donald B. Tobin Visiting Scholar in Business Ethics, Professor Veronica Root Martinez, who challenges the dominant enforcement-driven model of corporate compliance, arguing that it too often fails to prevent misconduct and misaligns with organizations’ true risks. Drawing on behavioral ethics, organizational theory, and real-world case studies, she introduces a “purpose-driven compliance” framework that centers a firm’s mission, inherent risks, and ethical aspirations. The talk explores how reorienting compliance around organizational purpose—rather than government enforcement priorities alone—can better prevent misconduct and foster stronger ethical cultures. Find more information here.

Legal Innovations for Trans Rights: The Fight for Justice Within an Unjust System
Friday, March 6, 2026; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
The Maryland Law Review is excited to host its annual Symposium in-person on Friday, March 6, 2026, in Westminster Hall. This year's symposium brings together legal scholars and practitioners from across the country to discuss emerging and hot-button legal issues affecting trans rights today. Topics this year will include a discussion of emerging constitutional right issues, prisoner’s rights, healthcare access, trans rights in the education space, and much more. This event brings together leading scholars of gender law, as well as practitioners, and law students. Find more information here. 

Threads of Power: Fashion, Expression and the Law
Friday, March 27, 2026; 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
Please join our esteemed panelists as they discuss the powerful intersection between our appearance and the legal systems that regulate, and sometimes suppress, self-expression. From gender identity and dress codes to norms in workplace appearance, fashion is much more than aesthetics—it is a site of identity and regulation. Find more information here.

Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress
Monday, March 30, 2026; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us for a Book Talk with Professor Atinuke Adediran on her new book, Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress (Cambridge University Press). Adediran examines the rise—and retreat—of corporate diversity commitments since 2020, and what their unraveling reveals about the limits of disclosure, corporate governance, and market-driven reform in advancing meaningful racial progress. Find more information here.

Recent U.S. Actions in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran and Their Implications Under International Law
Monday, April 6, 2026; 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In the last few months, the United States has intervened by military force to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; imposed an oil blockade and ongoing trade embargo against Cuba, and with Israel, launched a full-scale military intervention against Iran. What is the legality of these actions under international law, and what are their briader implications for both the post-Second World War UN system of collective security and the future of international legal order itself? Join Adrian Heredia, Second Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and Maryland Carey Law faculty for a discussion. 

The Rules Based Order is Dead: Long Live the Power Based Order
Monday, April 6, 2026; 4:00 pm 6:00 pm
Over 30 years ago, the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) completed a framework of international institutions that embodied not only the rules-based order, but also the political economic practices and values of neoliberalism. Western leaders who ushered in the WTO and its vision for a 21st-century trading system, which had intellectual property at its heart, declared that member states would settle their differences on the basis of rules, not of power. Based on his forthcoming book, Pharma Monopoly, Tahir Amin's talk will recount the pre-history that set the stage for the creation of the WTO—a history that often suffers from ahistorical thinking in policy and legal circles and which continues to help perpetuate the ruse of a rules-based order. It is a story of how the political economic ideology of neoliberalism re-packaged capitalism and progress in the language of "free-market competition," "innovation," and "markets" to counter the aspirations of decolonisation by newly independent nations and a New International Economic Order (NIEO) movement which in the 1970s sought to prioritise social and economic justice as the central theme of development.

Protecting the Bench: Confronting Threats to the Judiciary
Wednesday, April 8, 2026; 4:30 PM  7:00 PM; Register here
In recent years, there has been a dramatic and deeply troubling increase in the frequency and severity of threats directed at state and federal judges. Beyond threatening rhetoric, there have been actual physical attacks against judges and their family members. Particularly alarming is the growing role of public officials and public figures in amplifying these threats through social media, deliberately inciting harassment campaigns that place judges and their families in danger. These escalating attacks strike at the heart of judicial independence, the separation of powers, and the rule of law itself. This timely and important panel discussion centers around an urgent issue, and what lawyers and members of the public can do to respond.

Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery
Monday, April 13, 2026; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm; Register here
This session will focus on the movement for reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery, including moral and legal bases for reparations claims. It will cover the nature of the movement for reparations and how the movement has leveraged or engaged domestic litigation and legislation, U.N. special procedures, and transnational activism. It will also examine legal objections to the duty to make reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery as well as responses to these objections. Finally, it will invite students to think creatively about arguments for reparations for historical harms from a transitional justice perspective.


Virtual

Fixing America’s Broken Democracy: The Case for Parliamentary America
Monday, October 27, 2025; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Drawing from his recent book, “Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy,” Professor Stearns will explore how structural reform could strengthen U.S. democracy and invite us to consider how the University of Maryland, Baltimore might contribute to advancing graduate-level civic education in service of democracy.

FDA's Crisis is Everyone's Crisis: The Past, Present and Future of FDA Reform
Thursday, November 20, 2025; 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm EST; Register here
The Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law invites you to join us as we welcome Patricia Zettler, John W. Bricker Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law for the second event in the 2025/2026 Rothenberg Speaker Series. This year’s series will focus on the future of food, drug, and medical device regulation.

From Tulsa to Capitol Hill: The Struggle for Racial Justice in Policing & Reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Descendants
Friday, February 20, 2026; 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Founded in 2017, following the police killing of Terence Crutcher, Sr., the twin brother of Dr. Crutcher, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Crutcher family turned pain into purpose by seeking justice for Terence, public safety for all Tulsans, and reparations for the survivors and descendants of the 1921 Race Massacre in Tulsa. The panel will feature Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, Founder & Executive Director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation.

Schedule a time to chat with one of our Student Ambassadors. They would be happy to speak with you about law school, Maryland Carey Law, or provide a virtual tour. Email us at admissions@law.umaryland.edu to connect! 

Are you worried about finding housing? The University of Maryland, Baltimore has created an off-campus housing website to assist students and simplify the housing and roommate search. Key features include:

• A map-based housing search
• Detailed property listings
• Valuable insights on tenant rights and responsibilities
• Local resources on navigating Baltimore
• A roommate finder
• A sublet listing feature

The Office of Admissions at Maryland Carey Law has also compiled additional resources:

• Check out housing options near campus.
• Check out our VeryApt Housing Guide.
• Watch our Current Student Housing Webinar using the password MCLadmitted1!
• If you are looking for an alternative to the apartment buildings downtown or to find a roommate, join the Class of 2029/2030 GroupMe

You can also visit the UMB Housing Classifieds Facebook page and UMB Housing Classifieds website.

BARBRI Law Preview and Maryland Carey Law Pre-Orientation Program

1. BARBRI Law Preview -  Law Preview is an asynchronous self-guided law school prep course designed to give incoming students a running start heading into law school.  It contains over 30 hours of in-depth 1L instruction taught by law faculty.  It includes content that helps prepare students for the core 1L curriculum as well as skills modules aimed at building study habits and strategies for exam success. More information forthcoming. 
2. Maryland Carey Law Pre-Orienation Program - Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Academic Support, Russell McClain, has created a Pre-Orientation program for students to help prepare them for law school. This intensive course will provide students with an example as to what to expect during law school and Dean McClain teaches the class associated with the program. Dean McClain is a nationally-recoginzied expert on inclusiveness, implicit bias, and student achievement in law school. He is the author of The Guide to Belonging in Law School. More information is forthcoming.  

External Scholarships

You can submit applications for university and state scholarships and external scholarships, all of which have different deadlines depending on the scholarship. You can find additional external scholarships through AccessLex and Fastweb. Please be aware of all deadlines. For example, the LMJ Scholarship Program offers scholarships of $10,000 to first year students with an application deadline in early April.

Orientation

Orientation is mandatory and is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, August 12 to Friday, August 14, 2026