F. Michael Higginbotham. Iis the Wilson Elkins Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore and Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law, International Law, and Race and the Law.
Professor Higginbotham received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Brown University in 1979, a Juris Doctor degree from Yale University in 1982, and a Master of Laws degree with honors from Cambridge University in 1985 where he was a Rotary Scholar.

Before joining the University of Baltimore law faculty in 1988, Professor Higginbotham was a Law Clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil Poole, an Associate with Davis, Polk & Wardwell, and a Lecturer In Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Higginbotham is the author of the book Race Law:  Cases, Commentary, and Questions (Durham:  Carolina Academic Press, 2001).  Now in its second edition, Race Law is widely used in colleges and law schools throughout the United States.  He has published articles in Yale Law and Policy Review, Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Columbia Univeristy International Law Journal, Boston University International Law Journal, Howard University Law Journal, and University of Illinois Law Review.  He has published opinion editorials in The Chronicle Review, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Afro-American.  His forthcoming book, Getting To The Promised Land – Race In The Obama Era, will be published in 2010 by NYU Press.

Professor Higginbotham is the Chair of the Maryland Attorney General’s Task Force On Electronic Weapons and is a member of the Maryland Appellate Judicial Nominations Commission.  He is the former Chair of the O’Malley/Brown Transition Team Minority Affairs Working Group.  Professor Higginbotham is a Co-Founder of the Baltimore Scholars Program and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is the former Chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty and the former Chairman of the Board of the Public Justice Center.  Professor Higginbotham is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and holds an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Shenandoah University.