
School of Law
At ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø , our students, faculty, staff and alumni influence everything from health law to international law to public policy—all while learning, teaching and practicing legal education rooted in real-world impact. Discover our latest news in legal scholarship, advocacy, experiential learning, community impact and so much more.

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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles

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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
June 26, 2024
Erik Jensen has done it again. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law emeritus professor was cited by both the U.S. Supreme Court majority and dissent in the case of Moore v. United States, issued on June 20, 2024.
Providing essential historical and doctrinal foundation, Jensen's tax law treatise, "The Taxing Pow...

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June 25, 2024
After a decade spent steering the School of Law from recovery to resurgence, co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have chosen to step down from their leadership roles this summer.
When the two first became co-deans in the fall of 2013, the law school faced declining enrollments, financial chal...

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June 21, 2024
In November, the Business Law Center sponsored the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Corporate Law and Private Ordering. The symposium featured keynote speaker Jill Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics at Univers...

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June 18, 2024
On Friday, May 17, 2024, First Amendment Clinic Director Andrew Geronimo moderated a conversation with Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Jewish news outlet the Forward, at the City Club of Cleveland.
Geronimo and Rudoren engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the need for rigorous reportin...

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June 13, 2024
At the start of their last monthly faculty meeting as co-deans on June 13, Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf celebrated the completion of the renovation of the faculty meeting room with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
With gifts from Roe Green, George and Stephanie Simon, and the law firms of Elk & Elk, ...

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June 04, 2024
The LLM program at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø was recently named to the International Jurist Magazine’s LLM Honor Roll. This distinction places our program within the top 30 in the United States among over 100 law schools open to foreign attorneys.
Practicing law in a global society demands a...

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May 31, 2024
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Calvin Sharpe, who died May 12, 2024 in Arizona after a long illness.
Sharpe was the Galen J. Roush Professor Emeritus of Law; before holding the Roush Chair, he was the John Deaver Drinko-BakerH...

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May 30, 2024
President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Joy K. Ward have announced that Paul Rose, associate dean for strategic initiatives at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, will begin as dean of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law July 1, pending Board of Trustees approval next month.
“Pau...

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May 30, 2024
President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Joy K. Ward have announced that Paul Rose, associate dean for strategic initiatives at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, will begin as dean of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law July 1, pending Board of Trustees approval next month.
“Pau...

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May 28, 2024
This spring, the Center for Business Law hosted the Norman A. Sugarman Tax Lecture. This year’s honoree and lecturer was Michael J. Graetz, who is the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School and the Columbia Alumni Professor Emeritus of Tax Law at Columbia Law School.
Grae...