Colin Starger
Associate Director
Law
The University of Baltimore
United States of America
Biography
Before joining the UB Law faculty in 2010, Starger served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law. Starger graduated in 2002 from Columbia University Law School, where he was a recipient of the Jane Marks Murphy Prize (for Clinical Excellence), and a graduation speaker for his J.D. class. Following graduation, Starger clerked for Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger in the Southern District of New York. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as a Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School. At the Innocence Project, Starger was lead counsel on four DNA exonerations including one from Oklahoma's death row. Starger is the principal on the SCOTUS Mapping Project, a software-driven effort to map Supreme Court doctrine. He is a member of the New York and Maryland bars.
Research Interest
Civil Procedure Criminal Procedure First Amendment Innocence and Wrongful Convictions Jurisprudence Lawyering Skills Rhetoric and Argument
Publications
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Constitutional Law and Rhetoric , 18 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1347 (2016).
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New Wine in Old Wineskins: Metaphor and Legal Research , 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. Online 1 (2016)
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The Persistence of the Confederate Narrative , 83 Tenn. L. Rev ___ (forthcoming 2017)
