2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

e-Iearning tools, offering grants to faculty
and students to experiment with e-Iearning
tools and strategies, and sponsoring workshops
and conferences to bring leading
thinkers and practitioners in the e-learning
field to UB.
The Centerfor Technology Commercialization
(UB-CTC) was founded in 1996
within the Merrick School of Business. Irs
primary mission is to advance the commercialization
of technology in Maryland by
training students and professionals in the
arts ofentrepreneurship, technology transfer,
and high-tech commercialization. UBerc
works with actual technologies,
researchers, inventors, and businesses and
uses them as live, hands-on course work
opportunities not only for UB students but
for those anending other University System
of Maryland colleges and universities. Ir
also conducts commercialization projects as
well as research and studies in commercialization
and technology transfer.
Centers within the School of Law
The Centerfor Families, Children and the
Courts, established in 2000, is the focal
point for the School of Law's work on
reforming state courts into more appropriate
forums for the resolution of family legal
crises. The Center grew out of the recognition
within the legal profession of an urgent
need for a high profile, specifically-identified
entity to expand and broaden family
court reform work nationwide. Serving as a
vehicle for changing the paradigm of judicial
and legal thinking about family law, the
Center conducts the following activities:
advocating for the unified family court concept
in jurisdictions throughout the country;
providing technical assistance necessary
to support such pervasive change; and
training lawyers, judges, court personnel,
and other professionals to collaborate to
resolve family conflicts in a therapeutic,
ecological, and service-based manner.
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The Center also undertakes research on
various family law issues and brings the
results of this research to the anention of
professionals through publications and conferences.
It seeks to establish other partnerships
and alliances, as well as to pursue
significant funding from foundations and
state courts for projects within its mission .
The Centerfor International and Comparative
Law, established in 1994, is a
center for research and programs in international
and comparative law at the University
of Baltimore. Housed in the School
of Law, the Center sponsors research, publications.
teaching and the dissemination
of knowledge about international legal
issues, with special emphasis on human
rights, environmental law, intellectual
property, and international business transactions.
The Stephen L. Snyder Centerfor
Litigation Skills, established in 2000
through a generous gift from nationally recognized
litigation expert Stephen L. Snyder,
a 1970 graduate of the School of Law, has
provided an endowment that supports the
school's well recognized litigation training
programs. The Center's activities include
lectures by prominent lawyers and judges
and scholars, special conferences. and litigation
research. Among the Center's goals is
to offer first rate practical and theoretical
training on a wide range oflitigation techniques
and to promote discussion about
important litigation issues. The Center provides
a resource for identifYing and analyzing
national litigation activities and trends.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
The Academic Center
The Academic Center at 1420 North
Charles Street is the main building of the
University of Balrimore. On the ground
floor are the University Bookstore, the
Academic Resource Center, The Career
Center, the Center for Student Involve­