Meet Capital Law School’s Endowed Faculty
The foundation of Capital University Law School is its outstanding faculty – a faculty dedicated to teaching, service and scholarship. They are devoted to their students, providing a rigorous and demanding legal education that prepares them to enter the practice of law.
With the adoption of Capital Law School’s strategic plan in 2006, Building on Our Momentum … Securing Our Future, a major focus was made on enhancing faculty resources to support teaching and scholarship which informs their teaching. In three short years, with the generosity of our alumni and donors, we have accomplished one of our philanthropic goals in the strategic plan: the creation of a named professorship. Academic positions are designed to provide financial support to honor, help retain and recruit outstanding teachers and scholars.
Congratulations to our newly named endowed faculty: Susan M. Gilles, Professor Emeritus John E. Sullivan Designated Professor of Law; Dennis D. Hirsch, Geraldine W. Howell Professor of Law; and Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law. These three outstanding faculty members join Capital Law School ’s other two named faculty members: Mark R. Brown, Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair of Law and Mark P. Strasser, Trustees Professor of Law.
~ Dean Jack A. Guttenberg
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Mark R. Brown
Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair of Law
Constitutional law expert, Professor Mark Brown joined the law faculty in 2003 and teaches constitutional law and constitutional litigation. He has taught at several other law schools, including the University of Illinois, Stetson University, Florida State University and Ohio State University. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States and he clerked for the Honorable Harry W. Wellford of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His articles on a variety of constitutional law issues have appeared in such leading law journals as the Temple Law Review, Tulane Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review and Cornell Law Review. For 18 years, he was a cooperating attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc. His current pro bono work involves representing third party presidential candidates in ballot access issues around the country. Professor Brown is a former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Rights and the ABA Litigation Section’s Subcommittee on Section 1983 Litigation.
Selected Publications:
Constitutional Law Under § 1983 (2d ed. 2008) (Lexis) (with Teacher’s Manual).
The Fall and Rise of Qualified Immunity: From Hope to Harris, 9 Nev. L. J. 185 (2008).
Policing Ballot Access: Lessons From Nader’s 2004 Run for President, 35 Cap. U. L. Rev. 165 (2006).
Ballot Fees as Impermissible Qualifications for Federal Office, 54 Am. U. L. Rev. 1283 (2005).
A Primer on Attorney’s Fees Under § 1988, 37 Urban Lawyer 663 (2005), reprinted in 22 Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook 16-1 (2006, S. Saltzman, ed.)
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Susan M. Gilles
Professor Emeritus John E. Sullivan Designated Professor of Law
A highly regarded teacher and a member of Capital’s law faculty since 1990, Professor Susan Gilles teaches civil procedure, torts and media law. A noted scholar on Constitutional law and First Amendment rights, her articles have appeared in prestigious journals, including the Supreme Court Review, Marquette Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Temple Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal and Case Western Reserve Law Review. Her scholarship is frequently cited by other authors and has been referenced in such law journals as Stanford, Columbia and Georgetown, as well as three casebooks. She is a frequent speaker for the Ohio Judicial College and an invited presenter for a variety of law school symposia. Professor Gilles is a former attorney with Baker and Hostetler, where her practice focused on media law and litigation, and she is a former chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Mass Communication.
Selected Publications:
From Rehnquist to Roberts: Has Informational Privacy Lost a Friend and Gained a Foe?, 91 Marq. L. Rev. 453 (2007).
Public Plaintiffs and Private Facts: Should the “Public Figure” Doctrine be Transplanted into Privacy Law?, 83 Neb. L. Rev. 1204 (2005).
From Baseball Parks to the Public Arena: Assumption of the Risk in Tort Law and Constitutional Libel Law, 75 Temp. L. Rev. 231 (2002).
Taking First Amendment Procedure Seriously: An Analysis of Process in Libel Litigation, 58 Ohio St. L. J. 1753 (1998).
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Dennis D. Hirsch
Geraldine W. Howell Professor of Law
Nationally knows for his innovative scholarship in the areas of information privacy law and environmental law, Professor Dennis Hirsch is a recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Senior Professorship Grant for research and teaching in The Netherlands in 2010. He will lecture on comparative information privacy law at The University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and will conduct research on innovative Dutch approaches to information privacy regulation. At Capital, Professor Hirsch teaches environmental law, information privacy law, property law and appellate litigation and directs the concentration program in environmental law. He previously served as the Law School’s first Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Development. His articles have appeared in the Illinois Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Indiana Law Journal and numerous other legal journals. He is the author of a prize-winning textbook on environmental law practice, which has been adopted by more than 50 law schools, and he is a frequent contributor to newspaper op-ed pages. Professor Hirsch serves as counsel to the law firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur and he has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame and Drake University law schools. He is currently vice chair and has served as chair of the ABA’s Environmental Committee on Innovation, Management Systems and Trading and he co-founded the Central Ohio Sustainability Roundtable.
Selected Publications:
Environmental Law Practice: Problems and Exercises for Skills Development (Carolina Academic Press, 1999, 2003), with J. Anderson.
Emissions Trading – Practical Aspects in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (M. Gerrard ed., 2007) (American Bar Association), with M. Bender.
Trading in Ecosystem Services: Carbon Sinks and the Clean Development Mechanism, 22 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 623 (2007).
Protecting the Inner Environment: What Privacy Regulation Can Learn from Environmental Law, 41 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (2006).
Lean and Green? Environmental Law and Policy and the Flexible Production Economy, 79 Ind. L. J. 611 (2004).
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Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law
Professor Brad Smith is one of the nation’s leading authorities on election law and campaign finance. In 2000, he was nominated by President Clinton to a seat on the Federal Election Commission, where he served for five years, including a year as Chairman. He is frequently invited to testify on Capitol Hill and his writings have appeared in leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Legislation and Pennsylvania Law Review, as well as popular print publications such as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and USA Today. Professor Smith has been on the Capital Law faculty since 1993 and teaches election law, administrative law, jurisprudence and law and economics. A frequent guest lecturer, Professor Smith has spoken at many of the nation’s colleges and universities and his national media appearances include ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC, Fox, C-Span and CNBC. Professor Smith also serves as of counsel with the Columbus, Ohio,and Washington D.C. offices of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.
Selected Publications:
Vanity of Vanities: National Popular Vote and the Electoral College, 7 Election L. J. 196 (2008).
Boundary-Based Restrictions in Boundless Broadcast Media Markets: McConnell v. FEC’s Underinclusive Overbreadth Analysis, 18 Stanford L. & Pol. Rev. 240 (2007).
Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (Princeton University Press, 2001).
Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform, 105 Yale L. J. 1049 (1996).
Some Problems with Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaigns, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 591 (1999).
Money Talks: Speech, Corruption, Equality and Campaign Finance, 86 Geo. L. J. 45 (1997).
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Mark P. Strasser
Trustees Professor of Law
Professor Mark P. Strasser's appointment as the Trustees Professor of Law recognizes his extraordinary and sustained commitment to legal scholarship. Nationally recognized for his scholarship in family law, he is the author of nine books and more than 100 articles about various family law, bioethics and constitutional law issues and is a frequent presenter at conferences across the country and internationally. Professor Strasser is a former professor of philosophy and taught at Illinois State University, University of Texas at Arlington, and Washington University in St. Louis. A member of Capital University Law School’s faculty since 1993, he teaches Constitutional Law, Torts, Family Law, Jurisprudence, and a seminar on Sexual Diversity and the Law. Professor Strasser was the Visiting Tyler Haynes Chair Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law in 2001 and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law during the 1999-2000 academic year.
Selected Publications:
The Coercion Test: On Prayer, Offense, and Doctrinal Inculcation, 53 St. Louis U. L. J. 417 (2009).
The Often Illusory Protections of “Biology Plus:” On the Supreme Court’s Parental Rights Jurisprudence, 13 Tex. J. Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rts. 31 (2007).
Yes, Virginia, There Can Be Wrongful Life: On Consistency, Public Policy, and the Birth-Related Torts , 4 Geo. J. Gender & L. 821 (2003).
Questions and Answers: Family Law (LexisNexis, 2003).
The Challenge of Same-Sex Marriage: Federalist Principles and Constitutional Protections (Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999).
Legally Wed: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution (Cornell University Press, 1997).
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