Welcome Four New Members of the College of Law Community
Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Director of the Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy Program
Legal Writing Professor of Law
BA, the University of Notre Dame, with honors
JD, The Ohio State University College of Law, summa cum laude
Professor Broering-Jacobs taught in the law school’s legal writing program from 2000 until 2005. She rejoins our faculty in the 2008-09 academic year as our new Director of the Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy Program. An outstanding student she was executive editor of the Ohio State Law Journal, a member of Order of the Coif and the recipient of awards for torts, labor law and trial practice; she graduated fourth in her class at OSU. During law school, she was a legislative assistant in the Ohio Department of Transportation; after graduation she clerked for two years for the Honorable Sam H. Bell of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. From 2005-2006, she served as counsel to the Civil Subcommittee of the Ohio Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee, and from 1996 to 2000, she was a litigation associate in the Cleveland office of Baker & Hostetler. Professor Broering-Jacobs is a frequent guest lecturer on legal writing strategy, changes in reporting opinions and Ohio research and citation. She is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Professor Broering-Jacobs will continue to teach in the legal writing curriculum.
Matthew W. Green Jr.
Assistant Professor of Law
BA, University of Maryland at College Park
JD, University of Baltimore School of Law, magna cum laude
LLM, Columbia University School of Law, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
In law school, Professor Green was an associate managing editor of the University of Maryland Law Review and member of the Heuisler Honor Society. Following his graduation, Professor Green clerked first for the Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and subsequently for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Green was a litigation associate in the Baltimore law firm of Hogan & Hartson from 2002-2004. He joins our faculty from the Baltimore law firm of Ober, Kaler Grimes & Shriver, where he was a litigation associate focusing on aspects of litigation in both general civil and employment-related matters. An article, Lawrence: An Unlikely Catalyst for Massive Disruption in the Sphere of Government Employee Privacy and Intimate Association Claims, is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. Professor Green is admitted to the Maryland Bar, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. At Cleveland-Marshall, he will teach a civil liberties seminar, contracts and employment discrimination.
Browne C. Lewis
Assistant Professor of Law
BA, Grambling State University, summa cum laude
JD, University of Minnesota School of Law
MPA, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, cum laude
LLM, University of Houston School of Law
Professor Lewis joins the law school faculty from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she taught real estate transactions, real property, estates and trusts, and environmental justice. Her research interests include children’s and parents’ rights, environmental law and environmental discrimination, and issues arising from artificial procreation. Scholarly publications include Children of Men: Balancing the Inheritance Rights of Marital and Non-Marital Children in the University of Toledo Law Review (2007); Survey of Michigan Environmental Law in the Wayne Law Review (2006) and What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The Importance of Information in the Battle Against Environmental Discrimination in William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review (2005). She is presently working on two articles, “Two Fathers; One Dad: Addressing the Parental Obligations Created by the Existence of Artificially Created Children” and “From the Cradle to the Grave: The Inheritance Rights of Posthumously Conceived Children.” A casebook, The Inheritance Rights of Children: Cases and Materials” is forthcoming. At Cleveland-Marshall, she will teach Property I and II, Estates & Trusts and a seminar on Inheritance Rights of Children. Before beginning her teaching career, Professor Lewis was a housing law attorney with the Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a Family law attorney with the West Texas Legal Services in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Kristina L. Niedringhaus
Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
BA, Washington University, with honors
JD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MA, Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia
Before joining the law school as its new Law Library Director, Professor Niedringhaus was Associate Dean of Information Resources and Technology and Associate Professor of Law at the Phoenix School of Law. A rising star in the area of legal research technology, she was instrumental in the design and planning of the library of Arizona’s newest law school—from traditional acquisitions and state-of-the-art IT resources, to hiring, budget planning and facilities design. Professor Niedringhaus’s previous appointments include Texas Wesleyan University Law Library, where she was the Electronic Services Librarian and Assistant Professor; Georgia State University College of Law Library, where she was Associate Library Director, and the University of Toledo Law Library, where she was Senior Electronics Law Librarian. In the area of information technology, she is a leading presence, teaching, writing and speaking on using the web effectively, interactive electronic legal research, translation software, and technology in teaching. Her publications include Georgia Pre-Statehood Legal Research in Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide including New York City and the District of Columbia (M. Chiorazzi and M. Most, eds., Haywood Press 2006). She is a productive member of the American Association of Law Libraries, serving as AALL Representative to the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Research (2007-2010) and on numerous AALL committees. She serves on the editorial boards of Law Library Journal and American Association of Law Libraries Spectrum, and is a former Chair of the Computing Services Special Interest Section (CS-SIS) of the AALL. Professor Niedringhaus is also active in the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries, the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section and the Arizona Association of Law Libraries.