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Seven alumnae share
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Dean’s Letter
Diversity and inclusion
Executive Editor essential aspects of the
GARRY W. JENKINS
Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs
Moritz community
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BARBARA PECK n Embracing diversity is the right thing to do as
Chief Communications a moral imperative and the strategic thing to do because
Officer legal employers and their clients demand multicultural
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community is essential to true excellence in higher education
and in the legal profession. A range of differences brings new
Writers and important perspectives to the table, spurs innovation
ELIZABETH WEINSTEIN and problem-solving, and contributes to dynamic, high-
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to the profession to a wide range of backgrounds. As a result, Moritz strives for a diverse and
inclusive environment to enable every student to reach his or her full potential.
In this regard, I refer to diversity in a broad sense of the word encompassing race, ethnicity,
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gender, sexual orientation and identity, disability, religion, age, military status, and more. In
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others with science backgrounds. All furthering our understanding of the ways in which their
contributions enhance classroom discussions and our profession. As lawyers, we are called
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In this edition of All Rise, we also added a new feature to our class notes section that takes
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story to tell. We took a nod from the popular “Humans of New York” social media sensation,
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and created a feature of our own called “Lawyers of Ohio State.” We asked graduates from our
presented in this publication,
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and they do not necessarily
responses are thoughtful and I think you will see there is so much we can learn from each other.
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Q&A with Larry Herman
After 53 years, beloved Criminal Law
Professor Larry Herman retires from
SPRING 2015 teaching and shares his memories with
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3L Reflections
In the fall of 2012, we gathered a
20 American Hero Visits Moritz group of 1Ls for a photoshoot and
John Glenn – U.S. Marine Corps aviator, survey. Catch up with some of them
engineer, NASA astronaut, and former as they graduate.
U.S. Senator – offers advice to an informal
group of 1Ls who are interested in 34
Civil Rights At 50
political and government careers.
Moritz recognizes the 50th
anniversaries of the Civil Rights
22 Mixing Science and Law Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act
How an undergraduate science of 1965.
background can help launch a legal
career. 40
Dispute System Design
Workshop
24
Life After Service An innovative workshop gives
How soldiers-turned-law students adjust students real world experience in
to student life after military careers. conflict resolution.
4 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
IN EVERY ISSUE
3 Dean’s Letter
52 Alan C. Michaels discusses
diversity in the law.
7 Notebook
Catch up on news from the
college.
38 Overheard in the
Saxbe
Visiting speakers offer insight
into important issues of the
day.
62
43 Office Hours
Doug Berman talks about the
current status of the death
penalty in Ohio and beyond.
44 In Print
62 Mary Beth Beazley and Monte
Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Smith ’90 co-wrote the
Seven female graduates, who
book Legal Writing for Legal
practice various types of
Readers.
law, share the obstacles they
have overcome to make it to
46 1 Degree, 10 Careers
the top of their chosen fields
– as well as the ways legal Alumni whose practices
practice is changing to better focus on alternative dispute
accommodate women. resolution (ADR) share how
their Moritz education helped
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An Unsung Hero
The late William M. McCulloch
82 Alumni Profiles
’25 is honored in two new
Features books – and two works of All Rise tells the stories of
art, for his pivotal role in the Kathleen Lyon ’98, David
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When Disaster Strikes creation and passage of the Borer ’81, and Siobhan
Disaster law is an emerging 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Boyd-Nelson ’05
field that has seen rapid Voting Rights Act of 1965.
growth in the past decade. 83 Alumni Notes
When a catastrophe occurs, 76
Pyramid Schemes Read the latest updates
what role does the legal
How Scott Richard Stanley ’06 from alumni living around
system play in keeping
– and his colleagues – helped the world.
everyone safe?
uncover a massive pyramid
scheme that was international
in scope.
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Michael E. Moritz ’61
Before he was a partner at a national
law fi rm, before he helped create a
worldwide health care industry services
provider, before he gave $30 million
to forever change education for Ohio
State law students, Michael E. Moritz
was a donor.
Small Gestures are Signs of Great Gratitude.
Whether it’s your fi rst gift or your hundredth, it matters.
Notebook
PEOPLE • PROMOTIONS • HONORS • EVENTS • QUOTES • NEWS • AND MORE
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
(ODI) works with academic units, commu-
nity partners, and national organizations
and institutions to focus on initiatives for
the recruitment, retention, and success of
underrepresented students, faculty, and
staff at Ohio State.
ODI includes three centers: The Frank
W. Hale Black Cultural Center, the Todd
Bell National Resource Center on the Af-
rican American Male, and the Latino and
Latin American Space for Enrichment and
Research (LASER). It also runs university
initiatives, including: Future Faculty Re-
treats; Dissertation Boot Camps; leader-
ship initiatives for women of color; gender
and LGBT diversity initiatives; diversity
research grants; ODI Faculty Fellows;
and partnership with Gates Millennium
Bridge Builders.
“Colleges and universities like ours
don’t exist in a vacuum,” Davies said. “In
a nation of increasing diversity, higher
education institutions play a critical role
in preparing students to be culturally
Professor Sharon Davies competent contributors to their future
professions and workplaces, and civically
engaged members of their communities.”
Davies named vice The Kirwan Institute will move its
administrative home to the Office of Di-
versity and Inclusion, where it will serve
provost
as the research arm of the department.
Professor Davies will remain on the fac-
ulty at Moritz, which she joined in 1995.
n Sharon L. Davies, the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Lib- Her scholarship and teaching focuses on
erties and Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic- civil rights, criminal law, criminal proce-
ity, has been named vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer dure, evidence, and race and law. Her hon-
for the university. Her appointment is effective on July 1, 2015, subject to approval by ors include The American Constitution
the Board of Trustees. Society’s Robert M. Duncan Award and
Davies will replace Valerie B. Lee, who currently holds the position and is retiring. Lee, the Columbus Bar Association’s Liberty
a professor of English, has frequently co-taught a joint law/English course on Critical Bell Award. In addition, she was presented
Race Narratives for more than a decade. with the Key to the City of Birmingham,
“It is an honor to be able to think about building on the many important accomplish- Alabama, for the contributions made by
ments of Dr. Lee,” Davies said. “Building a richly diverse faculty, staff, and student body is, her book, Rising Road, A True Tale of Love,
quite simply, a matter of academic and institutional excellence. Research shows that di- Race and Religion (Oxford University
verse and inclusive campus environments promote research and innovation, and enhance Press). She also was named a 2015 YWCA
the learning and problem solving skills of all students.” Woman of Achievement. – Barbara Peck
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Moritz hosts
Ferguson
panel
Delaney Marsco Emily Rotella
n A standing-room only discussion
J.D./LL.M. meeting on recent events in Ferguson, Missouri,
featured Moritz professors Joshua
Dressler, Amna Akbar, Ric Simmons, and
Sharon Davies. They discussed the legal
standard for self-defense, the history of
race related protests, the structure of
Avery Schumacher grand juries, and unconscious bias in
American society.
“As lawyers, it is important to tie the
abstraction you learn in class back to
reality,” said Dean Alan C. Michaels, who
moderated the event.
For more information, including
photos, Tweets, a podcast, and media
coverage, please visit: http://moritzlaw.
Professor Katrina Lee Susan Kim Meghna Rao
osu.edu/briefing-room/events/moritz-
host-ferguson-discussion/ – EW
Moritz 3Ls serve as legal
writing fellows
n Students from all over the globe come to Moritz College of Law’s Mas-
ter of Laws (LL.M.) program with the goal of deepening their knowledge of U.S. Law
and legal systems and advancing their careers. One key component of Moritz’s one-year Sharon Davies talks
LL.M. program is legal writing. with a student after
In the fall semester, all LL.M. students take LL.M. Legal Writing, a course designed to the panel
give international students a strong foundation in U.S. legal writing. LL.M. students at
Moritz receive a highly interactive and rigorous introduction to the communication of
legal analysis in the U.S., including preparation of professional emails and office memo-
randa and simulated meetings with law firm partners.
This year, Moritz pioneered a new model: Professor Katrina Lee, a former law firm
partner and litigator and an experienced legal writing professor, became Moritz’s
first-ever director of the LL.M. legal writing program and assumed the responsibility
of teaching all sections of LL.M. legal writing, with support from the first-ever Moritz
Ric Simmons
legal writing fellows. This year’s fellows are five 3L students: Susan Kim, Delaney Marsco,
Meghna Rao, Emily Rotella, and Avery Schumacher.
Selected through a competitive application process, the fellows “have all demonstrat-
ed excellence in legal writing and have expressed enthusiastic interest in working with
our LLM students,” according to Lee. She added, “The legal writing fellowship program
is a terrific way for our 3L students to be involved in our LLM program at Moritz. We
want our LL.M. students to feel as welcome and be as integrated as possible into aca-
demic life at Moritz, and this is one way to help accomplish that goal.”
The fellows serve as resources, holding regular office hours and making themselves
Amna Akbar addresses
accessible to LL.M. students for legal writing guidance throughout the semester.
the audience
– Elizabeth Weinstein
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Notebook
Faculty promotions, appointments
n The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a host of faculty appointments and endowed positions for
Moritz faculty.
Cinnamon Carlarne was promoted to the rank Kathy Northern was named the Robert M.
of professor. Carlarne is a leading expert in Duncan/Jones Day Designated Associate
environmental law and climate change law and Professor of Law. She serves as the associate
policy. Her scholarship focuses on the evolution dean for admissions and teaches Torts and
of system of domestic and international Products Liability.
environmental governance.
Anne Ralph was promoted to the rank of
Daniel C.K. Chow was named the Frank E. and associate clinical professor. Ralph teaches
Virginia H. Bazler Chair in Business Law. He has Pretrial Litigation and Legal Analysis and
published extensively on international trade, Writing. Her scholarship focuses on the
international intellectual property issues, and intersection of law and narrative. Her most
the legal system in the People’s Republic of recent piece was pulished in the Yale Journal of
China. Chow is the author of four widely used Law & the Humanities.
casebooks.
Paul Rose was named the Frank E. Bazler
Stephanie Hoffer was promoted to the rank of and Virginia H. Bazler Designated Professor
professor. Hoffer teaches International Taxation, in Business Law. He is the director of the
Tax Policy, and Contracts. Her most recent Law, Finance & Governance @ Ohio State
article appeared in the Northwestern University program. An award-winning teacher, he has
Law Review. written extensively on sovereign wealth funds,
corporate governance, and securities regulation.
Garry W. Jenkins was named the John C.
Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law. He is the Guy Rub was promoted to the rank of associate
co-founder and director of the Program on professor with tenure. Rub is an expert in the
Law and Leadership and currently serves as intersection between intellectual property law,
the associate dean for academic affairs. He contract law, and economic theory. His most
specializes in corporate social responsibility, recent article on copyright appeared in the
law and philanthropy, leadership studies, and Emory Law Journal.
corporate governance.
Todd Starker ’07 was promoted to the rank
Kimberly Jordan was promoted to the rank of of associate clinical professor. Starker teaches
associate clinical professor. Jordan teaches in Transactional Practice and Legal Analysis
the Justice for Children Clinic. She is a former and Writing. Prior to joining the faculty, he
senior attorney for the Legal Aid Society of represented clients of all sizes in corporate,
Southwest Ohio, where she focused on family real estate, and financing transactions, ranging
law and representing children in abuse and from a few hundred thousand to several billion
neglect proceedings in juvenile court. dollars.
Katrina Lee was promoted to the rank of Daniel P. Tokaji was named the Charles W.
associate clinical professor. Lee teaches Legal Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold
Analysis and Writing, LL.M. Legal Writing, Legal Professor of Constitutional Law. He is a senior
Negotiations and Settlements, and Business fellow in Election Law @ Moritz and is an
of Law seminar. Before joining Moritz, she authority election law and voting rights.
was a partner in a San Francisco law firm and He teaches Legislation, First Amendment Law,
practiced complex litigation in the areas of Civil Procedure, and Election Law. – BP
antitrust, real estate, construction defect, health
care, and insurance coverage.
Moritz College of Law | SPRING 2015 9
Notebook
Two alumni honored
for public service
contributions at annual
PILF auction
n Two Central Ohio alumni were honored for their contributions to public
Sally Bloomfield ’69
service at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Public Interest Law
Foundation’s (PILF) Annual Auction on March 5.
Sally Bloomfield ’69, a partner at Bricker & Eckler, and Eugene King ’83, former
director of the Ohio Poverty Law Center, were presented with the PILF Excellence
in Public Service Award for their positive influence and impact on the Columbus
community. Each year two alumni, one from the public and one from the private
sector, who display the spirit of public-interest work – whether through their career
achievements or through volunteer activities – are selected for the award.
Bloomfield was chosen as the attorney in the private sector honoree for her work
in helping to establish the YWCA Family Center Pro Bono Legal Aid Clinic and her
personal commitment to pro bono work in the Columbus community. Bloomfield
serves as pro bono coordinator at Bricker & Eckler, where she works to encour-
PILF auction
age firm members to volunteer on projects such as the Volunteer Resource Center
(VRC), Legal Aid Society of Columbus (LASC)-sponsored interfaith clinics, and the
annual Homeless Veterans Stand Down legal clinic.
King was selected for his career-long dedication to public service. He recently
retired from his role as director of the Ohio Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit orga-
nization that seeks to expand, protect, and enforce the legal rights of low-income
Ohioans. Before that King served as director of the Ohio State Law Legal Services
Association. Throughout his career, King has fought to expand access to health care
for low-income Ohio residents, including the more than two million now receiving
Medicaid. He has worked closely over the years with PILF, the Pro Bono Research
Group, and other student organizations at Moritz to encourage and support students
in their pursuit of public interest legal careers.
This year’s PILF auction raised over $44,000, which will be used to support stu-
Eugene King ’83
dents working in public interest positions over the summer. – Kelsey Givens
Berman co-authors white paper on
raising tobacco sales age
n Assistant Professor of Public Health and Law Micah lives by preventing adolescents from ever taking up smoking.
Berman is making headlines after co-authoring a white paper that “The key point is that if people get through adolescence with-
recommends raising the minimum age to buy cigarettes in Ohio to out smoking, it is highly unlikely they will ever start,” Berman
21. The paper, published by Ohio State’s College of Public Health, said in an Ohio State University news release. “The flip side of
with Rob Crane, clinical associate professor of family medicine, that is if they do start smoking in adolescence, everything we
and Natalie Hemmerich, an attorney and postdoctoral fellow in have learned about teen brain development shows that it will be
public health, states that raising the tobacco sales age would save much harder for them to quit later.” - KG
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