About Natalie
Natalie Ram built a career that moves between courtrooms and classrooms. She began her path at Princeton University, earning an AB, and went on to Yale Law School where she received her JD. Those academic credentials set the stage for an early stretch in private practice and a later turn to legal teaching and scholarship.
After law school Ram joined Morrison & Foerster LLP in 2011. Her time at the firm gave her firsthand experience in large-firm practice. She worked on matters that exposed her to the demands of client representation and the pace of commercial litigation. That practical grounding informs her later work in legal education.
Ram entered academia in 2014 as an assistant professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She brought practical experience to a classroom setting, combining real-world perspective with doctrinal instruction. Five years later she took a faculty position at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. In 2019 she was appointed Professor of Law there, joining a faculty that blends teaching, research, and service to the legal community.
Her professional memberships reflect a bi-jurisdictional practice. She is a member of the Maryland State Bar, admitted in 2010, and she holds active membership in the District of Columbia Bar since 2012. Those admissions support both academic work and any practice-related activities that require bar standing in those jurisdictions.
Colleagues describe Ram as someone who moves easily between scholarship and classroom work. Her background in private practice gives students insight into how legal principles operate in practice. Her academic roles have involved curriculum development and mentoring law students preparing for both practice and public service.
In public settings she has participated in panels and taught courses that aim to bridge theoretical and applied law. Her progression from a national law firm to full-time legal education is typical of faculty who balance an interest in scholarship with experience in client advocacy. She has held office at the Maryland Carey School of Law and remains on its faculty.
She currently teaches and produces scholarship at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Her current work centers on teaching and scholarly projects that connect legal doctrine to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
