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Tobin looks back at 8 years of change at Maryland Carey Law | Maryland Daily Record
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After eight years as dean of the College of Maryland Francis King Carey Faculty of Regulation, Donald Tobin will step down on the finish of this educational yr and return to instructing full time.
In an interview with The Each day File, Tobin mirrored on his time in management on the state’s prime legislation college, beginning amid a disaster in authorized schooling after the Nice Recession. Tobin additionally led Maryland Carey Regulation by way of the 2015 unrest that adopted the dying of Freddie Grey, and noticed the varsity by way of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tobin stated he seems ahead to spending extra time within the classroom, the place his focus is in tax legislation.
“At its core, legal professionals care concerning the rule of legislation, and so they care about justice and so they care about equity,” he stated. “We will’t neglect that as a career.”
An announcement about Tobin’s successor as dean is anticipated within the subsequent month. The next interview has been condensed and edited for readability.
After eight years as dean of the College of Maryland Francis King Carey Faculty of Regulation, Donald Tobin will step down on the finish of this educational yr.
Q: Why did you resolve this was the proper time to step again and return to instructing?
Tobin: I believe there are two driving forces. One is I really like our college students and I really like instructing and I miss being within the classroom and attending to work together with them regularly. So I’m enthusiastic about that chance.
The second is that establishments have form of a movement to them and a means by which they can transfer ahead and do issues. We’ve achieved an incredible variety of issues during the last eight years. I felt like this was a time the place the varsity was prepared for an additional push. We’ve been pushing fairly laborious for the final eight years and have gotten ourselves to a fantastic place, and this was a superb time for another person to come back in and make a brand new push for brand spanking new concepts and transfer issues ahead.
Q: How would you outline that push that you just’re describing out of your time as dean?
There have been two main targets once I got here on as dean, and the primary was to assist the legislation college by way of the structural adjustments that occurred due to the 2008 recession. There was a major downturn in enrollment in legislation faculties. There have been monetary difficulties at legislation faculties across the nation, and we would have liked to determine how one can restructure and reinvent our legislation college. That’s been an enormous a part of the final eight years.
The second half was how we wished to leverage our involvement in the neighborhood. Now we have been very energetic in the neighborhood for a very long time … however about six months after I got here on as dean, Baltimore skilled the Freddie Grey unrest and I acquired the school collectively and I stated, “That is going to outline who we’re as a faculty. How will we need to reply to what’s taking place round us?”
We put collectively a plan to do three essential issues. One was to be extra concerned in faculties, particularly in Baltimore. The second was to broaden our instructing. We at all times had taught, however continued and strengthened our instructing about, a few of the underlying structural issues that existed in Baltimore and cities across the nation. And the third was actually how we’d be extra concerned in the neighborhood whereas leveraging our essential strengths and ensuring that we had been fulfilling our mission to teach the following technology of nice legal professionals and leaders. I’d say these two issues have guided me.
Q: You’ve seen the legislation college by way of some fairly turbulent occasions. Now we’re within the COVID-19 pandemic. What would you say you took away from these occasions?
I took away a fantastic appreciation for our individuals. Our college students, by way of all of, it have proven nice creativity, thoughtfulness, ardour and resilience. Our college have proven a deep sense of care concerning the success of our college students and the way we had been capable of assist them thrive on this atmosphere, whether or not or not it’s coping with the racial and social unrest within the nation, or with COVID, and employees was actually keen to wade through what must be completed for our higher mission. I believe my largest takeaway is persons are fairly superb after they put their thoughts to a objective and need to make one thing work. If something defines for me the resilience and fervour of the individuals who do that work, it’s what occurred after we had the primary COVID shutdown.
We had been capable of go to on-line instruction with no single day of missed class. We had been a bit of earlier, I believe, than some in seeing what was taking place. So we had been capable of get the expertise ordered and get individuals who perhaps weren’t accustomed to what Zoom was or how you could possibly educate remotely, and we acquired all people on-line instructing remotely.
That confirmed a pupil willingness to be versatile and cope with individuals who didn’t know the expertise, perhaps, in addition to they did. It confirmed an incredible dedication (from) our employees and college. … All people had to think about new methods to do issues. It’s laborious when a few of your proudest moments are that we had been capable of proceed, however whenever you watch what individuals did, not simply at Maryland Carey Regulation, however across the nation in responding to this disaster, it’s fairly unbelievable.
Q: What would you say to somebody who’s contemplating going to legislation college?
That is an incredible career. Legal professionals change the world. That’s the cornerstone of what we do, whether or not it’s serving to a transaction come to fruition or serving to arrange the principles of the sport, regardless of the recreation is, so that individuals work together with one another in a good, sincere and simply means.
However most significantly, should you consider most main adjustments in society, they’ve been pushed by a spot with steady rule of legislation, with a simply system so that everybody can thrive. … Legal professionals are on the forefront of that. We will’t remedy most cancers, and I can’t do an organ transplant. That’s not the place I make a distinction on this planet, however I make a distinction in making an attempt to create methods the place people who find themselves doing these issues thrive and the place all of us really feel that we are able to reside in a simply and equitable society. We’re not there. So there’s lots to do in legislation.
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Maryland Weather: Severe Storms Moving in From West
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BALTIMORE – Severe storms have been plaguing western Maryland this afternoon. They are on the move east and will push into Carroll County near the 6pm hour. These storms have a history of producing winds capable of downing trees. We are also seeing heavy rain and lightning.
Most of the activity will push north and south of the forecast area surrounding Baltimore with the marine layer or stable air mass keeping the severe weather west of the mountain regions.
The warm front associated with the severe weather is bring warm, humid air in overnight. Expect overnight lows in the low 70s with scattered showers and isolated severe storms.
A secondary cold front will bring another chance for an isolated strong storms on Sunday. The day won’t be a washout, there is the possibility of active weather in the afternoon and evening.
The front will bring bright sunny skies for Monday with low humidity. Perfect weather for the afternoon barbecue or last summer activity. Kids getting back to school this week should expect refreshing temperatures… possibly even a little chilly with overnight lows in the 50s.
High pressure will control our weather for the middle of the week. Expect sunny skies and low humidity through Friday. Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the mid 50s, with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. The chance of showers returns late Friday.
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How to watch Maryland football vs. UConn
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Maryland football is back and kicks off its season at home against UConn on Saturday.
The Terps will take on the Huskies for first time since 2013, when Maryland won, 32-21. The Terps are coming off an 8-5 season, in which they won their third straight bowl game, while UConn is coming off a disappointing 3-9 season and looking to play spoiler on the road.
With a victory, Maryland will move its week one winning streak to five games.
The numbers
Maryland: 0-0
UConn: 0-0
All-time series: Maryland leads, 2-1
DraftKings Sportsbook line: Maryland -19.5, O/U 44.5
How to watch and listen
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 12 p.m. ET
Where: SECU Stadium, College Park, Maryland
TV: Fox Sports 1 — Connor Onion (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)
Radio: 105.7 FM (Balt) / 980 AM (DC) – Johnny Holliday (play-by-play), Steve Suter (analyst), LaMont Jordan (sideline)
Streaming: Fox Sports
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Maryland Supreme Court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction, orders new hearing
BALTIMORE— Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast.
The ruling says the case should be sent back to a lower court for a new hearing on whether it should be thrown out entirely. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that had cleared Syed’s name two years ago.
Syed had served more than 20 years for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
He was freed from prison in September 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors found flaws in the evidence presented at trial and a judge agreed to vacate his conviction.
However, Lee’s relatives appealed the decision, contending they didn’t receive sufficient notice to attend the hearing that set Syed free. In March 2023, the Maryland Appellate Court agreed and reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the hearing.
Syed appealed that ruling, bringing the matter to the Maryland Supreme Court. Friday’s ruling comes 11 months after arguments were made.
Justices found the circuit court violated the rights of Young Lee, Hae Min Lee’s brother.
“In an effort to remedy what they perceived to be an injustice to Mr. Syed, the prosecutor and the Circuit Court worked an injustice against Mr. Lee,” the court said.
Syed will remain free until the next hearing which has not been scheduled. The Supreme Court ordered the Lee family must have sufficient notice of the new hearing and a new judge must preside.
“If there’s actually evidence presented that shows that Adnan Syed should not have been convicted, we would be the first ones to congratulate Adnan Syed and argue he should be a free man,” said David Sanford, the attorney for the Lee family. “That hasn’t happened yet.”
In their dissenting opinions, several justices wrote when the case was vacated, any appeal by Young Lee should’ve been rendered moot. Those justices also argued there aren’t any specific victims’ rights that would require Young Lee be allowed to be present at that 2022 hearing.
Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter said that while they disagree with the ruling, the Lee family’s pain in this isn’t lost on them.
“Wrongful convictions devastate the wrongly accused, their family and the family of the victim,” Suter said. “Reinstating Adnan’s wrongful conviction does not provide justice or closure.”
Rabia Chaudry, Syed’s friend and advocate, went on Instagram Live to affirm that she will do what she can to keep Syed a free man.
“I will never not fight for his freedom and I know there are others, also, in his life who will never not fight for his freedom,” Chaudry said.
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