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Max Stearns

Sep 27, 2017
6 min

Donald Trump’s un-Grand Old Party

In his retweeted, doctored, video, Donald Trump hits a golf ball that eventually strikes Hillary Clinton in the back. See here. I don’t believe that Trump intends to convey an intent to physically harm his former opponent. Rather, despite some recent legislative triangulation and his newfound dinner companions, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, see here, Trump views Hillary Clinton, and his predecessor, Barack Obama, as the true symbols of the Democratic party. And it is the De

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Max Stearns

Jun 25, 2017
5 min

Ending Four Years As Associate Dean, and a Must Read NYT Article for Parents of College Students and

Today's NYT article, titled "On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus," by Jessica Bennett, is a must read for parents of rising college students. See here. Children, middle school aged or older, should also read it. This week happens to mark the end of my four years as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at The University of Maryland Carey School of Law. In that capacity, I was in charge of faculty workshops and other programming, and as I so often said, whateve

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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.