Faculty Profile
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A.B., magna cum laude, Brown University, 1979
J.D., Yale University, 1982
LL.M., with honors, Rotary Scholar, Cambridge University, 1985
Telephone: (410) 837-4649
E-mail: higginbotham@ubalt.edu
Faculty Profile
Before joining the faculty in 1988, Professor Higginbotham was a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil F. Poole, an associate with Davis, Polk and Wardwell in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has published articles in the New York University Law Review, Columbia University International Law Journal, Boston University International Law Journal, Howard University Law Journal, and the University of Illinois Law Review.
Professor Higginbotham is the chairman of the Board of the Public Justice Center, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the former chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Selected Publications:
Race Law: Cases: Commentary, and Questions, Carolina Academic Press (2001)
Article, Promises Kept, 6 Harvard Journal Of African American Public Policy 11 (July 2001).
Soldiers for Justice: The Role of the Tuskegee Airmen in the Desegregation of the American Armed Forces, 8 William & Mary Bill of Rights L.J. 1 (2000)
Affirmative Action In The United States and South Africa: Lessons From The Other Side, 13 Temple Int'l & Comp. L.J. 187 (1999)
Yearning to Breathe Free: Legal Barriers Against and Options in Favor of Liberty in the Law of Antebellum Virginia, 68 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 401 (1993)
De Jure Housing Segregation in the United States and South Africa: The Difficult Pursuit of Racial Justice (with A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. and Sandile Ngcobo), 1990 U. Ill. L. Rev. 763 (1990)