University of Baltimore
Law Professor Named USM Regents Professor
April 15, 2003
Mortimer N.S. Sellers, professor in the University of Baltimore School of Law and a noted expert on constitutional and international law, will be named a University System of Maryland (USM) Regents Professor during the USM Board of Regents meeting at Towson University on Friday, April 11. Sellers was nominated for the award last year by H. Mebane Turner, the now-retired president of the University of Baltimore. The award, which has been granted only twice since the USM was founded in 1988, honors faculty members who have established a national and international reputation for scholarship, and who excel in their discipline according to a review by an independent ad hoc committee made up of faculty from various USM institutions. USM Chancellor William E. Kirwan said the selection of Sellers serves as a reminder of the level of talent and scholarship achieved by faculty at all of the USM institutions. "Mortimer Sellers is one of the best and brightest educators we have in the System," Kirwan said. "His scholarship is truly first-rate, by any measure. The fact that he has made a career here in Maryland says a lot about the collegiality of our campuses and about the resources we provide to highly capable teachers and researchers like him. We believe in the academic missions of each of our institutions, and this award is a demonstration of our commitment." As Regents Professor, Sellers will engage in various System- wide activities, which may include interactions with undergraduates, presentation of a public lecture, and other scholarly endeavors. Sellers, who serves as the School of Law's director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, recently published a book chapter, "The Roman Republic and the French and American Revolutions" in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic (forthcoming). He co-authored "The United States of America and the International Criminal Court" in The American Journal of Comparative Law, "The Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention under International Law" in International Legal Theory, and dozens of other articles and presentations. He is an executive trustee of the Nicholas Newlin Foundation, and a member of the executive board of the American Achilles Foundation. Sellers also serves as a grant evaluation panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The USM's other Regents Professors are the late Adam Yarmolinsky, former provost at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Michael Fisher, distinguished university professor in the Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park. The University System of Maryland is governed by a 17-member Board of Regents and includes 13 distinct and complementary institutions: Bowie State University; Coppin State College; Frostburg State University; Salisbury University; Towson University, University of Baltimore; University of Maryland, Baltimore; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; and University of Maryland University College.Contact:
Chris Hart
Phone: 301/445-2739
E-mail: chart@usmd.edu