Richard Boldt, JD
T. Carroll Brown Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Richard Boldt has been a passionate and dedicated legal educator for more than three decades, having joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 1989.
He was granted tenure in 1993, promoted to professor of law in 1999, and appointed as the T. Carroll Brown Professor of Law in 2016.
During his time at Maryland Carey Law, Professor Boldt has received numerous teaching awards and is widely recognized by current and former colleagues, students, and peers at other law schools as one of the best legal educators and scholars in the country.
Boldt’s teaching abilities and command of diverse areas of law have touched virtually every aspect of the Maryland Carey Law curriculum. He has taught core first-year subjects such as criminal law, torts, and constitutional law, plus a wide range of upper-level courses and seminars including federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure, constitutional interpretation, and mental disability law.
His work has been published in leading law journals including the Maryland Law Review, Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, Washington University Law Quarterly, Criminal Justice Ethics, Michigan Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Boldt received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. After practicing at the Legal Action Center, a public interest law firm in New York, he began his academic career at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
He also held a faculty position at City University of New York Law School and was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School. He served as associate dean of Maryland Carey Law from 2002 to 2006 and again in 2017. In 2022, he was recognized as the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Educator of the Year.
