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Max Stearns

Nov 25, 2019
7 min

The Lawyer as Public Citizen in the Digital Age

What follows is the final 12-minute lecture from my Constitutional Law II: Individual rights course, which ended earlier today: Each semester at the end of Constitutional Law I and II, I carve out about 12-15 minutes for a personal spiel. Although I intersperse reflections beyond the course content throughout each semester, I think of this parting shot as a final opportunity to encourage students to think carefully about why their career choice matters, how to make lawyering

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Announcement: Joining Advisory Board of Ad Fontes Media

Max Stearns

Oct 28, 2018
1 min

Announcement: Joining Advisory Board of Ad Fontes Media

I'm proud to join a remarkable group of professionals as a member of the Advisory Board for Vanessa Otero's Ad Fontes Media, meaning, in Latin, "to the source." For those of you who have not followed my related blog posts, before I was formally associated with the project, I posted twice on the viral media graphic. (Here is my more recent post on this project. And here is my initial post.) This project involves providing all of us with a greater foundation in understanding th

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Maxwell Stearns

I have been teaching law for twenty-nine years, and I am the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. My core areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Law & Economics, which I view as critically interwoven. My most recent book is titled Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic 2018, with Todd Zywicki and Tom Miceli). In this poster, recently created by the Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library, I am pictured with several wonderful books that I've recommended to friends, family, and students.