Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Speaker Series

The Cleveland-Marshall Faculty Speaker Series


Established in 1999, by Michael Slinger, Law Library Director & Professor of Law, the Cleveland-Marshall Faculty Speaker Series, is a series of programs that showcase the scholarly and professional interests of Cleveland-Marshall faculty to our students. To date there have been 45 presentations on the following diverse topics:

1999
“Muzzling Death Row Inmates: Applying the First Amendment to Regulations that Censor a Condemned Prisoner's Last Words.” Professor Kevin O’Neill

“Judaic Law: An Exploration in Comparative Law.” Professor Stephen Werber

Sexual Orientation and the Law: An Overview.” Professor Susan Becker

2000
“Law Study in the UK.” Professor Patricia Falk

“Law and Colonialism.” Professor Tayyab Mahmud

“Replacing the Internal Revenue Code with a Pure Consumption Tax.” Professor Deborah Geier

“Trial By Combat and Other Tales of the Common Law.” Professor David Snyder

“Race, Gestational Surrogacy and the Ideology of Motherhood.” Professor April Cherry

“Islamic Law: It's Not What You Think It Is.” Professor David Forte

2001
“On Beyond Stigma: Ethnic Groups and Genetic Research.” Professor Dena Davis

“Borrowing Trouble: The Causes of and Cure for Predatory Lending.” Professor Kathleen Engel

“Section 1983 Litigation:  An Introduction.” Dean Steven Steinglass

“Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Importance of History in Solving Modern Problems.” Baker-Hostetler Visiting Professor, Mary Brigid McManamon

“The Politics of IP Law: Sex in the CD.” Professor Michael H. Davis

“Representing Timothy Leary and Other Reflections on the Sixties.” Professor Joel J. Finer

2002
“Liability for Narcotics Offenses Under State and Federal School Zone Statutes.” Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss

“The Imperial Republic: A Structural History of American Constitutionalism From the Colonial Period to the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Professor James G. Wilson

“What's Reasonable about Accommodation?  Fair Housing Rights and the Mentally Disabled.” Professor Frederic P. White

“What do nude dancing and churches have in common? Dealing with legal and policy issues where the first amendment meets the streets.” Professor Alan Weinstein

“Classroom Professionalism.” Professor Steve Lazarus

“Sovereign Responsibilities and Suicidal Murderers: Some Thoughts on Capital Punishment and the Practical Uses of Political Philosophy.” Professor Adam Thurschwell

2003
“The Courageous” Plessy Dissenter, Justice John Marshall Harlan I, and his African-American “Half Brother,” Civil Rights Advocate, Robert Harlan of Ohio.” Professor Arthur Landever

“Slices of Practice in the Clinics.” Clinical Professor’s Gordon Beggs; Pamela Daiker-Middaugh; Kenneth Kowalski; and Kermit Lind

“Law, Cultural Norms, and Dirty Words in Newspapers.” Professor Lloyd Snyder

“Appointed But Prevented from Serving? My Experiences as a Grand Jury Foreperson .” Professor Phyllis Crocker

“Must Work and Family Conflict?” Professor Candice Hoke  

‘Tort Reform: State and Federal Constitutional Concerns.” Professor Stephen Werber

2004
“Great Work if you can get it:  Working in the field of Labor Arbitration in 2004.” Professor Karin Mika

“Professionalism: An Issue for Law School Classes.” Professor Gordon Beggs

“The Ohio Constitution.” Dean & Professor Steven Steinglass

“A Most Zealous Prosecution:  The Kennedys vs. Hoffa.” Professor William Tabac

“Why Not Polygamy?” Professor Dena Davis

“The American Civil War. Civil Liberties and Retribution, Parallels With Today.” Associate Dean & Professor W. Dennis Keating, and Associate Dean, Professor, and Law Library Director Michael Slinger

2005
“Competitive Sourcing and the American Romance with the Private.” Professor Christopher L. Sagers

“Space Law and the Evolving Space Industry.” Professor Mark Sundahl

“The U.S. EPA under Bush 2:  Dramatic Shifts in Policy.” Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

“Art in Peacetime, Art in Wartime. Who Owns Stolen Art.” Legal Writing Professors Barbra Tyler & Brian Glassman

“Do Cities Have Standing to Sue Predatory Lenders?” Professor Kathleen Engel

2006
“Many are Chilled but Few are Frozen: The Inevitable Demise of Legally Sanctioned Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in the United States.” Professor Susan Becker

“The Founders and Slavery.” Professor Arthur Landever

“The Highest Finance: Satellites, Space Radio and an Update on the Cape Town Convention.” Professor Mark Sundahl

“The Eminent Domain Revolution:  Reactions to the Supreme Court's Kelo Decision and What They Mean Nationally and in Ohio.” Professor Alan Weinstein & Professor & Associate Dean Dennis Keating

2007
“The Future of the Ohio Constitution of 1851: Is It Rewrite Time?” Professor and Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass

“Spaceports and Space Tourism: Legal Issues for the New Space Industry.” Professor Mark J. Sundahl

“Blood, Sweat & Tears -- American Corporations and the Silent Tragedy of Exploited Labor.” Professor Veronica Dougherty and Law Student Claude Hill

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