Emeriti/ae Professors
David Barnhizer
Professor of Law
A.B., Muskingum College
J.D., Ohio State University
LL.M., Harvard University
Professor Barnhizer was Articles Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal and then served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in Colorado Springs Legal Services Office, a Ford Urban Law Fellow, and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School. He is active in the areas of environmental law and policy and is Senior Advisor to the International Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Senior Fellow for Earth Summit Watch, and General Counsel for the Shrimp Tribunal. He has served as Executive Director of The Year 2000 Committee and consulted extensively with environmental organizations, including the World Resources Institute, the International Institute for Environment and Development, World Wildlife Fund, and the Center for Global Change. He is the author of THE WARRIOR LAWYER, a book on legal strategy, and has also published STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES and ENVIRONMENT CLEVELAND.
Teaching Areas: Environmental Law, Toxic Torts, Legal Strategy, Jurisprudence, Trial Advocacy, Legal Profession, Business Planning
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Phone: (216) 687-2315
Louis Geneva
Associate Professor of Law Emeritus
B.A., Miami University
J.D., Suffolk University
LL.M., New York University
Professor Geneva was an instructor in the New York University Law School Graduate Tax Program and in private practice before joining the Cleveland-Marshall faculty. He was instrumental in having Cleveland-Marshall named an affiliate of the ALI-ABA "American Law Network," offering high quality continuing education programs via satellite communications. He also conceived and directed the Internal Revenue Service Conference on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation. Professor Geneva has been and continues as an active member of the Cleveland Bar Association Estate Planning Institute Executive Committee.
Teaching Areas: Wealth Transfer Tax, Estate Planning Tax, Federal Income Tax, Business Entity Tax.
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Arthur Landever
Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Ph.D., New York University
Professor Landever was an editor of the New York University Law Review; he was in private practice and taught political science at Brooklyn College and the University of Minnesota before joining the Cleveland-Marshall faculty. His interest in Constitutional Law and the Supreme Court is reflected in his writing and teaching. Teaching Areas: Constitutional Law; First Amendment Rights; Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiating; Legal Profession
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Phone: (216) 687-2331
William Tabac
Professor of Law Emeritus
B.A., Case Western Reserve University
J.D., George Washington University
Professor Tabac was an editor of the George Washington Law Review and served as a legislative aid in the U.S. Senate and as an assistant to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service before clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He teaches in the area of commercial and consumer law and has published in these areas. He has recently written on legal malpractice and about the Teamsters Labor Union.
Teaching Areas: Contracts, Commercial Law, Consumer Remedies, Secured Transactions
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Barbara Tyler
Director, Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy Program
Legal Writing Professor of Law
B.A., Baldwin Wallace
J.D., Cleveland State University
Before attending law school, Professor Tyler was an emergency room nurse and nurse educator. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital nursing program, a magna cum laude graduate of Baldwin Wallace College and a magna cum laude graduate of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Following her graduation, she clerked for the honorable Blanche E. Krupansky, Chief Justice of the Cuyahoga County Eighth District Court of Appeals. She has served as a consultant to practitioners on medical malpractice claims and risk management. Her research interests are varied and include law and medicine, insurance and art law as well as learning theory. Published articles have appeared in Cleveland State, Vermont, Indiana, and Rutgers law reviews and Perspectives: Teaching Legal Writing and Research. Administrative Responsibilities: Director of the Legal Writing Department since 2001; Collegially supervises a department of seven full time legal writing professors and several adjuncts. Prof. Tyler frequently lectures on topics related to legal writing, essay and exam taking skills, and the Bar exam, and is active in many legal and community organizations. Currently, she serves as advisor to the Journal of Law and Health.
Teaching Areas: Legal Writing, Advanced Legal Writing, Scholarly Writing, and Legal Drafting (general) and Transactional Drafting.
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Phone: (216) 687-5166
Stephen Werber
Professor of Law
B.A. Adelphi University
J.D. Cornell University
Ll.M. New York University
M. A. Judaic Studies. Siegal College of Judaic Studies
Professor Werber was engaged in government and private practice for six years before joining the Cleveland-Marshall faculty. His research interests are in the areas of products liability with current emphasis on the constitutional issues surrounding legislative reform as well as a growing interest in comparison of Jewish and American law. He has written and lectured widely in the field of products liability. Professor Werber is a member of many bar and community organizations including the American Law Institute where he served as a member of the Consultation Committee for the Restatement (Third) of Torts, Products Liability and he is a past President of the William Thomas Chapter of American Inns of Court. His most rewarding experience at Cleveland-Marshall was his twenty-year role (1981-2001), as faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board of Governors. Professor Werber's current teaching areas include Contracts, Products Liability, Constitutional law as related to tort reform and Judaic law.
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Phone: (216) 687-2337