Warnken, Byron

Byron L. Warnken is a graduate of McDonogh School (1964), Johns Hopkins University (1968), and the University of Baltimore School of Law (1977). Prior to becoming a law professor, he served in the United States Army, clerked for the Honorable Basil A. Thomas on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, and was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service.



As an academic, Professor Warnken has been a member of UofB's full-time law faculty for 32 years and currently teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure I & II, and Judicial Process. He is (1) Director of the Judicial Internship Program, having placed 3,000 law students with judges; (2) Director of Region 3 of the National Moot Court Competition (16 law schools in a four-state region); and (3) Director of the Judicial EXPLOR Program, which, for 15 years, has guaranteed every first-year UofB law student experience with a federal or state trial or appellate judge. Professor Warnken serves as faculty adviser to the Moot Court Board. In 2008, UofB renamed its Annual Consolidated Moot Court Competition, which Professor Warnken established in 1991, as the "Byron L. Warnken Moot Court Competition."