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Max Stearns

Apr 23, 2018
5 min

Taking the Parkland Students Seriously, not Literally

Perhaps the most insightful statement about presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was Salena Zito’s assertion that whereas the press took him literally, but not seriously, his supporters took him seriously, but not literally. In the aftermath of the tragic Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, the reaction to the sudden fame and influence of the Parkland high school students—including Jaclyn Corin, Emma González, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Al

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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.