Bio
Howard E. Katz is the Legal Educator-in-Residence at the Cleveland State University College of Law. He has taught at several law schools (including CSU|LAW), has served as an academic dean, and has held other administrative roles at some of those schools. Among the courses he has taught are torts, contracts, property, constitutional law, land use, real estate finance, business ethics and law, and agency and partnership.
Howard regularly makes presentations about teaching and curriculum at law schools and national conferences, including the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), the Emory Transactional Law and Practice biennial conference, and Aspen's Leading Edge conference (where he has convened sessions on such topics as design thinking, the future of the casebook, teaching higher-order thinking, professional identity formation, designing the first year curriculum to foster opportunity and competency, and needed additions to the law school curriculum). Howard serves on the executive committees of the AALS Section on New Law Professors, the Section on Property Law, and the Section on Teaching Methods.
Howard is the co-author, along with CSU|LAW Professor Kevin O'Neill, of Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching, as well as helping to develop and serving as editor of the Strategies and Techniques series of books (providing subject matter-specific teaching advice for law professors). He has served as Chief Counsel to the Cleveland City Council and in a senior-level policy position in county government, and currently serves on the Planning Commission in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Howard helped design a housing assistance program for first-ring suburbs that won a U.S. EPA Smart Growth award, was a Knight Foundation Fellow in Community Building in conjunction with the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Congress for the New Urbanism, and was the Senior Fellow at the American Architecture Foundation. He has conducted numerous public affairs interviews for a Cleveland radio station over several years. Howard earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from Case W estern Reserve University and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.