BIO

Co‑Interim Dean Carolyn Broering‑Jacobs has been a valued member of the CSU College of Law faculty since 2000 and most recently served as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs. A leader in legal writing and advocacy education, she previously served as Director of Legal Writing and is the longtime faculty advisor for the College’s award‑winning Moot Court Program, leading numerous teams to national honors. She is unique in legal academia for the breadth of her teaching experience, having taught first‑year legal writing, led the law school as Director of Legal Writing, taught in both the Civil Litigation and Transactional Law Clinics, regularly taught Torts, and designed and taught numerous upper‑level writing and advocacy courses. Broering‑Jacobs has played a central role in curricular and co‑curricular innovation, developing the College’s first approved online course in 2014 and helping establish the framework for future online offerings. She has been a key leader in strategic planning, accreditation reviews, and enrollment growth initiatives, and in 2018 received CSU’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence. Her scholarship includes co‑authoring Ohio Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press, 2015), and she has published and presented widely on legal writing, legal pedagogy, and strategies to foster grit and resilience in law students.