U Baltimore Law School – Sandy Rosenberg

Our syllabus is due tomorrow.

Senator Shelly Hettleman and I co-teach the Legislation classes at the University of Baltimore and University of Maryland law schools.

We teach for four hours each week in the fall semester.

I can’t imagine the preparation that a full-time K-12 teacher must make for a week of classes.

What do we try to teach?

How a bill becomes a law.

Always consult with the supporters of your bill, and in many instances, do the same with the opponents.

Concentrate on the members of the committee that will hear your bill.

How you draft a bill can determine which committee it will be referred to.

Legislation that amends the Real Property article will be heard by the House Environment and Transportation committee.

If the same bill would affect the Courts and Judicial Proceedings article, it goes to the House Judiciary Committee.

Several former students now serve with me in Annapolis, most notably Bill Ferguson, the Senate President.

In addition, I take a special pride in the former students who’ve worked for the General Assembly’s non-partisan professional staff.

I also hope that you’re learning about the legislative process by reading my blog posts.

What do Governor Martin O’Malley, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton have in common?

They grew up in Maryland and went to college out of state. That would make them ineligible for the state program that gives a stipend to thirty summer interns with non-profits or state or local government.

I referenced those three public figures at the outset of my testimony on a bill to remove that in-state requirement.

We want to encourage our best and brightest to return home for their careers.

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My staff told me of an amendment to one of my bills that would delay its effective date.

I emailed back, “I won’t endorse that unless pressed when I testify but if that’s the compromise needed to pass the bill, I’m all for it.”

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Over the years, I’ve interviewed many candidates for judgeships.

Today, I interviewed the first one whom I’ve taught.

He was in my Legal Writing section at the University of Baltimore in 1992.

I asked him for a writing sample – from his law practice.

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How a bill becomes a law

Our best and brightest – then and now

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