By Erin Carrington Smith, 2023 J.D. Candidate, University of Baltimore School of Law November 19, 2022, marked 25 years since the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 105-89, 111 Stat. 2115 (“ASFA”). The law was designed, in part, to address the problem of children languishing in foster care…

By: Neoshia R. Roemer From boarding schools to adoptions, family regulation has been at the heart of the legal relationship between the United States government and federally recognized Indian tribes. Removing Indian children from their homes and tribal communities was tied to an assimilation project with the end goal of terminating Indian tribes altogether. In…

By Teniola Oludare, Criminal Justice Intern To graduate from the University of Baltimore, we are required to complete 80 internship hours. I knew that if I was going to dedicate 80 hours to an internship, it had to be an area within my major (criminal justice) that I was interested in and one where I…