Academics Dates

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host “The Year Without a Justice: The Scalia Vacancy and the Future of the Supreme Court,” Tuesday, October 18 at 5 p.m. The panel discussion features Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate Magazine and Kristine Lucius, Democratic Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Judiciary Committee. 

The lecture is sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Alliance for Justice, American Constitution Society, Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights, National Council of Jewish Women, and People for the American Way.

About the Lecture:

When Chief Justice Roberts drops his gavel on October 3, the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term under circumstances unprecedented in American history. On news of the late Justice Antonin Scalia's death on February 13, the Senate's leadership responded in a way that had never happened before, announcing that no nominee of the sitting President would receive Senate confirmation, under any circumstances. The reason offered was the goal to leave the Court's ideological balance in the hands of voters. No stalemate of that kind has ever before occurred, and it will likely produce one of the longest unfilled vacancies in the Court's entire history. 

The nationally prominent panelists will put the controversy in its context and cut through the obfuscating rhetoric to work through the questions it poses: questions of constitutional magnitude over the relationship of law and politics, the role of the branches in preserving the rule of law, and the path forward from the bitterness of today's judicial politics.

About The Panelists:

• Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate Magazine, Contributing Editor at Newsweek, and Host of the Amicus Podcast
• Kristine Lucius, Democratic Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Judiciary Committee
• Sara Schiavoni, Lecturer, John Carroll University, and co-author of the Goldman, Schiavoni & Slotnick series on Judicial Nominations
• MODERATOR: Jeremy Paris, Executive Director, The Group Plan Commission and formerly Chief Nominations Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association

Registration at 8:30 AM; Program begins at 9:00 AM

Pre-register for a discounted rate of $75 by emailing cmlaaclenull@gmail.nullcom (email: cmlaaclenull@gmail.nullcom ) or calling 440-263-3659. Registration at the door will be permitted for $85. 

Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association invites you to attend OVI, a three-hour CLE that will be a practical guide for attorneys to better understand OVI Law from the time of the initial stop to the conviction, dismissal or acquittal. 

This three-hour course, featuring attorneys Ian Friedman, Gregory Gentile, Ashley Jones, and Judge Michelle Paris, will examine pretrial motions filed on OVI cases, such as motions to suppress, motions to preserve audio and video recordings and demands for discovery. This course will also cover the most common driver's license suspensions imposed by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. 

There will also be a legislative update on recent changes in the law in the area of OVI and DUIs. 

Sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association

Registration at 8:30 AM; Program begins at 9:00 AM

This continuing legal education program will focus on Ohio’s critical role in the 2016 election. Speakers include CMLAW alumni and faculty active in politics. This CLE will include portions of “Swing State,” a documentary about the 2006 Ohio Gubernatorial election and, specifically, CMLAW Interim Dean Lee Fisher’s race for Lieutenant Governor.

Speakers Include:

• Rob Frost, Chairman, Republican Party of Cuyahoga County

• Lisa Stickan Lewis, Ohio Federation of Republican Women

register by emailing cmlaaclenull@gmail.nullcom or calling 440-263-3659.

CMLAA Homecoming Reunion Lunch will follow this program.

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host The Friedman and Gilbert Criminal Justice Forum, "Beyond Ferguson: Can We End Mass Incarceration and Racial Disparity in Criminal Justice?" Wednesday, December 7 at 5 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by David Cole, the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law School.

About the Lecture:

Police shootings, stop-and-frisk, Black Lives Matter, and rising crime in some cities have brought renewed attention to the persistent challenge of living up to the challenge implied in the term "criminal justice." A new consensus seems to have emerged that we are incarcerating too many for too long, and that harsh street policing is not necessarily the best way to address inner-city poverty. But offering a vision for moving forward is always more difficult than criticizing the status quo. What can and should be done to bring justice to the criminal justice system, and what will it take?

About David Cole:

Cole is the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and an award-winning author of several books, including Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, which won the American Book Award. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Atlantic, and New Republic, among many others. He has received many awards for his human rights work and advocacy, including the Inaugural Norman Dorsen Presidential Prize from the ACLU for lifetime commitment to civil liberties. He was an Open Society Foundations Fellow in 2014.

On Friday, November 18, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host a day-long Criminal Justice Forum Symposium, "The Role of the Prosecutor and the Grand Jury In Police Use of Deadly Force Cases."

Registration:

The event includes lunch and 5.5 hours of CLE credit. Cost to attend is $13.65 (lunch included), or $95.94 for attorneys seeking CLE credit (lunch included).

Register Here

About the Lecture:

Events in Cleveland over the past few years have been at the center of the ongoing national debate over how the criminal justice system should respond to cases involving police use of deadly force. Many states are considering changes to the rules governing prosecutors and grand juries, and Ohio is no exception. A task force created by the Ohio Supreme Court recently released a report suggesting a number of reforms to Ohio's grand jury rules, and those reforms are now under consideration.

These reforms, as well as other approaches from around the country, will be discussed at this symposium. Panelists will examine the potential conflicts facing prosecutors in cases involving police use of deadly force and consider proposals to mitigate those conflicts. Potential reforms to the grand jury process, such as modifying grand jury secrecy rules and giving the grand jury greater independence, will be analyzed. Panelists will also consider the role of race in police use of deadly force cases. 

Event Schedule:

• 8:30 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction
• 8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Panel 1: Re-examining the prosecutor and the grand jury in police use of deadly force cases
  • Ric Simmons, Rebecca Roiphe, Michael Cassidy, Jonathan Witmer-Rich
• 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Panel 2: Broader issues in Police use of force cases: community engagement, substantive legal standard, and sentencing.
  • Kevin Washburn, Wesley Olivery, Jelani Jefferson Exum
• 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch Speaker: Matthew Barge, Institutional reform and regulating police use of force.
• 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Examining reforms to Ohio’s grand jury and prosecutorial systems in police use of force cases.
  • Judge Michelle Earley, Ric Simmons, Jonathan Witmer-Rich
• 2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Robert Strassfeld, Inside the Grand Jury: Reflections on Grand Jury Service

PanelISTS:

• Matthew Barge, Partner and Co-Executive Director, Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC)
• R. Michael Cassidy, Professor and Faculty Director, Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Boston College Law School
• The Honorable Michelle D. Earley, Judge, Cleveland Municipal Court & Former Grand Jury Prosecutor
• Jelani Jefferson Exum, Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law
• Lolita Buckner Inniss, Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Wesley M. Oliver, Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Criminal Justice Program Director, and Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law.
• Rebecca Roiphe, Professor of Law, New York Law School
• Ric Simmons, Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and Rule of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
• Robert N. Strassfeld, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Kevin Washburn, Regents Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law School
• Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Joseph C. Hostetler - BakerHostetler Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

The program is sponsored by the Federal Bar Association, the American Constitution Society, and the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

About the Lecture:

The program will include: (1) an analysis of the legal framework undergirding civil liberties and privacy rights in a society where far-reaching technology is an increasingly prevalent part of our lives; (2) how privacy rights and national security interests must be balanced; and (3) the future implications of the Apple iPhone dispute and what we can glean from it about this ever-changing area of law.

PanelISTS:

• Honorable Dan Polster, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• Steven Dettelbach, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
• Jonathan Leiken, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Diebold, Inc.
• Moderator: Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host a Constitution Day Lecture, “Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics,” Thursday, September 15 at 5 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Stephen E. Gottlieb, the Jay and Ruth Caplan Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.

About the Lecture:

For the last three decades, discussion of constitutional interpretation has been dominated by the argument over originalism. At this point the methodology of constitutional interpretation has to be reconstructed. The starting point for that has to be the challenge of political science to the ways the Court treats democracy. It raises fundamental questions about how the Constitution should be read.

About Stephen E. Gottlieb:

Gottlieb practiced with a New York City law firm and served as assistant general counsel for Community Action for Legal Services (now Legal Services of New York). He has previously served as a visiting professor at Cleveland-Marshall as well as Akron, Marquette and Suffolk Schools of Law. 

Gottlieb has written a number of books: Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics (2016); Morality Imposed: The Rehnquist Court and Liberty in America (2000); Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials (1st ed., 1993; 2nd ed. 2006, 3rd ed. 2015 with West, Bix and Lytton); Public Values in Constitutional Law (editor/contributor, 1993); Toward a Usable Past (ed. with Finkelman, 1991); Systematic Litigation Planning (1978).

Notable Events:

Monday, August 17, 2-6 p.m. - Orientation Jump Start - Atrium

Tuesday, August 18, 5 p.m. - Welcome Program and Reception - Moot Court Room

Wednesday, August 19, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. - Courtroom Visit

Wednesday, August 19, 12:30-1:45 p.m. - Lunch and Book Discussion with Faculty

Thursday, August 20, 4-6 p.m. - SideBar - Atrium

Friday, August 21, 1-4:30 p.m. - Visit to Nextant Aerospace and Flight Options

Friday, August 21, 4:30-6:30 p.m. - Cleveland-Marshall Orientation Picnic - Sculpture Garden, including Significant Other Discussion 5:30 in LB 60

Click Here to visit the 2015 Orientation Page for more information.