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DOUGLAS A. BERMAN
The William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
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EDUCATION
Harvard Law School
J.D., Magna Cum Laude, June 1993
Activities: Harvard Law Review, Editor and Developments Office Chair
Harvard Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, Staff Member
Harvard Law Record, Staff Member
Princeton University
A.B., Summa Cum Laude, in Philosophy, June 1990
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
1869 Award for Best Thesis, Killing, Letting Die, and the Right to Noninterference
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
The William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law (Fall 2005 Present)
Full Professor (Fall 2004 Summer 2005)
Associate Professor (Fall 2001 - Summer 2004)
Assistant Professor (Fall 1997 - Summer 2001)
Primary teaching/scholarship activities related to criminal sentencing and additional topics in criminal law and
procedure, secondary teaching/research interests in legislative processes and judicial administration issues.
Course offerings have included Criminal Law, Criminal Punishment & Sentencing, Death Penalty Seminar,
Criminal Procedure Investigation, Advanced Sentencing Seminar, Legislation, The Process of Judging and Clerking,
Legislation Clinic, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Legal Writing & Analysis.
On-going projects include revisions to sentencing casebook for Aspen Publishing, analysis of impact of
Blakely v. Washington and United States v. Booker on modern sentencing reforms, and research on the
institutions and dynamics of reforms to capital and non-capital sentencing systems.
Harvard Law School, First-Year Tutorial Program
Tutor (Spring 1993)
Individually tutored first- and second-year law students in subjects including torts and administrative law.
Harvard College Course, Thinking About Thinking
Teaching Fellow (Spring 1991)
Instructed and evaluated a class of 15 undergraduate students in upper-level philosophy course.
Helped Professors Alan Dershowitz, Robert Nozick & Stephan Gould develop materials and assignments.
ADDITIONAL LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Sentencing Law & Policy Blog http://sentencing.typepad.com
Owner and Author (Spring 2004 - Present)
Creator and sole contributor to sentencing law web log providing resources, information and commentary
about both capital and non-capital sentencing developments.
First blog to be cited by the U.S. Supreme Court (for a document exclusively on site); blog posts have been cited in numerous
federal circuit and district court opinions, in two state supreme court opinions, and in many briefs filed nationwide.
Profiled or discussed at length in articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, The National Law Journal, Legal Affairs,
Legal Times, Daily Court Review, Columbus Monthly, and numerous other publications.
Federal Sentencing Reporter
Co-Managing Editor (Summer 2001 - Present)
Editor (Fall 1994 - Spring 2001)
Responsible for managing, organizing and editing 360-page, five-issue periodical (University of California Press)
devoted to criminal sentencing law and theory with an emphasis on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Author, co-author, or primary editor of Editors Observations and Editors Notes for each issue.
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
Co-Founder and Co-Faculty Managing Editor (Spring 2002 - Present)
Worked with Professor Joshua Dressler on creating and developing a new and unique peer-reviewed law journal
focused on criminal justice issues; Volume 1, Issue 1 was published in Fall 2003.
Served as editor of Vol. 2, No. 1 symposium on Capital Juries, and of Vol. 4, No. 1 symposium on Blakely in the States
and of Vol. 6, No. 1 symposium on Responses to Sex Offenders
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Litigation Associate (Fall 1995 - Summer 1997)
Developed practice specialties in the fields of intellectual property, business torts and criminal law.
Devoted considerable time to pro bono criminal defense, including representation of a Texas death row prisoner.
Judge Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Law Clerk (1994-95 Court Term)
Served as part of Judge Calabresi s first set of law clerks following his 1994 appointment to the bench.
Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Law Clerk (1993-94 Court Term)
Performed additional administrative duties as law clerk serving in Chief Judge Newman s New York chambers.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Ohio State Bar Foundation 2006 Outstanding Research Award
Award recognizes an outstanding publication that promotes or is consistent with the mission of the Foundation or fosters
communication or improved relationships among lawyers, citizens and the courts of Ohio.
The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Awarded during the 1999-2000 school year; this university-wide teaching award is presented each year to
no more than ten Ohio State University faculty members from a pool of nearly 3000 eligible candidates.
Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Awarded in April 1998; this award honors attorneys who have contributed their invaluable time, resources, and
energies to the representation of human beings under a sentence of death across this country.
The Ohio State University Seed Grant
Recipient in Fall 1998 to facilitate the research of junior faculty.
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Summer Research Grant
Recipient every Summer from 1997 to the present.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Book Chapters
SENTENCING: CONCEPTS AND INSIGHTS (forthcoming Foundation Press 2008)
(with Nora Demleitner, Marc Miller and Ronald Wright)
SENTENCING LAW AND POLICY: CASES, STATUTES AND GUIDELINES (Aspen Publishers 1st ed. 2004; 2nd ed.
2007) (with Nora Demleitner, Marc Miller and Ronald Wright)
Extreme Punishment, in MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE (NYU Press forthcoming 2007)
Finding Bickel Gold in a Hill of Beans, in 2005-2006 CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW (Cato Institute 2006)
The Past, Present and Future of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Chapter 17 in PRACTICE UNDER THE
FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES (Aspen Publishers 16th ed. 2006)
Teachers Manual for SENTENCING LAW AND POLICY: CASES, STATUTES AND GUIDELINES (Aspen Publishers
available on-line 2004) (with Nora Demleitner, Marc Miller and Ronald Wright)
2005 Interim Supplement: The Blakely/Booker Revolution for Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes
and Guidelines (available on-line 2005) (with Nora Demleitner, Marc Miller and Ronald Wright)
2005-2006 Supplement for Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes and Guidelines (available on-line
2006) (with Nora Demleitner, Marc Miller and Ronald Wright)
Major Articles
A Capital Waste of Time? A Critical Examination of the Supreme Court s Certiorari Choices in Criminal
Cases, OHIO NORTHERN LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2007)
Rita, Reasoned Sentencing, and Resistance to Chance, 85 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 7 (2007)
Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs, 84 WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1043 (2006)
Making Sentencing Sensible, 4 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 37 (2006) (with Stephanos Bibas)
(cited in Cunningham v. California, 127 S. Ct. 856, 873 (2007) (Kennedy, J., dissenting)
Tweaking Booker: Making Advisory Guidelines Work in the Federal System, 43 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 341
(2006)
Conceptualizing Booker, 38 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 387 (2006)
Distinguishing Offense Conduct and Offender Characteristics, in A More Perfect System: Twenty-Five
Years of Guideline Sentencing Reform, 58 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 277 (2005)
Beyond Blakely and Booker: Pondering Modern Sentencing Process, 95 JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND
CRIMINOLOGY 654 (2005) (honorable mention in 2007 Almanac & Reader issue of THE GREEN BAG as
example of excellent legal scholarship )
Reconceptualizing Sentencing, 2005 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LEGAL FORUM 1
The Roots and Realities of Blakely, CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAGAZINE, Winter 2005, at 5.
Conceptualizing Blakely, 17 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 89 (2004)
From Lawlessness to Too Much Law? Exploring the Risk of Disparity From Differences in Defense
Counsel under Guidelines Sentencing, 87 IOWA LAW REVIEW 435 (2002)
Appreciating Apprendi: Developing Sentencing Procedures in the Shadow of the Constitution, 67 CRIMINAL
LAW BULLETIN 627 (November-December 2001)
Addressing Why: Developing Principled Rationales for Family-Based Departures, 13 FEDERAL
SENTENCING REPORTER 274 (2001)
Passive Virtues and Casual Vices in the Federal Courts of Appeals, 66 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 685 (2001)
(with Jeffrey O. Cooper)
Balanced and Purposeful Departures: Fixing a Jurisprudence that Undermines the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines, 77 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 21 (2000)
A Common Law for This Age of Federal Sentencing: The Opportunity and Need for Judicial Lawmaking, 11
STANFORD LAW & POLICY REVIEW 93 (1999)
In Defense of Less Precedential Opinions: A Reply to Judge Martin, 60 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 2025
(1999) (with Jeffrey O. Cooper)
Sentencing Commission as Guidelines Supreme Court: Responding to Circuit Conflicts, 7 FEDERAL
SENTENCING REPORTER 142 (1994)
The Second Circuit: Attributing Drug Quantities to Narcotics Offenders, 6 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER
247 (1994)
The Rights and Wrongs of Norplant Offers, 3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF LAW AND WOMEN S
STUDIES 1 (1993)
Special Treatment and Tort Law, Developments in the Law Nonprofit Corporations, 105 HARVARD LAW
REVIEW 1677 (1992)
Commentaries and Other Writings
Baze d and Confused, 156 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA (2007) forthcoming at
www.pennumbra.com/debates/. (with Alison Nathan)
What a Snitch Culture Snatches, writing as part of the TPMCafe's Book Club (2007), forthcoming at
http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/ (discussing Ethan Brown s Snitch)
Looking at the Libby Case from a Sentencing Perspective, 19 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 291 (2007)
(with Alyson S. White)
Federal Cocaine Sentencing in Transition, 19 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 291 (2007) (with Steven L.
Chanenson)
Can and Will Information Spur Post-Modern Sentencing Reforms?, 19 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER
219 (2007) (with Steven L. Chanenson)
Rita and Claiborne Booker Clean-up or Continued Confusion?, 19 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 151
(2007)
The Real (Sentencing) World: State Sentencing in the Post-Blakely Era, 4 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF
CRIMINAL LAW 27 (2006) (with Steven L. Chanenson)
Blogs Are Liberating The Profession From Dull Writing: They re Emerging As A Powerful Tool For
Lawyers And Law Professors, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Sept. 11, 2006.
Reasoning Through Reasonableness, 115 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 142 (2006), available at
http://www.thepocketpart.org /2006/07/berman.html.
Now What?: The Post-Booker Challenge for Congress and the Courts, 18 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER
157 (2006)
What s the Future of Federal Sentencing?, LEGAL AFFAIRS On-line Debate Club, available at
http://legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_sentencing0106.msp (Jan. 2006) (with Frank Bowman)
Same Old Sentencing, LEGAL TIMES, Dec. 26, 2005, at 35
Perspectives on Booker s Potential, 18 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 79 (2005)
Assessing Federal Sentencing After Booker, 17 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 231 (2005)
Perspectives and Principles for the Post-Booker World, 17 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 231 (2005)
Can the Court Clean Up Its Blakely Mess?, LEGAL AFFAIRS On-line Debate Club, available at
http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_blakely1004.html (Sept. 2004) (with Stephanos
Bibas)
Examining the Blakely Earthquake and Its Aftershocks, 16 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 307 (2004)
Supreme Court Clean up in Aisle 4: Blakely is too big and messy to ignore, SLATE, July 16, 2004, available
at http://slate.msn.com/id/2104014
Locating the Feeney Amendment in a Broader Sentencing Reform Landscape, 16 FEDERAL SENTENCING
REPORTER 246 (2004)
Taking Stock of the Feeney Amendment s Many Facets, 16 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 93 (2003)
The Model Penal Code Second: Might Film Schools be in Need of a Remake?, 1 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF
CRIMINAL LAW 163 (2003)
Introduction to the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 1 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 1 (2003)
(with Joshua Dressler)
Deciphering a Rosetta Stone of Sentencing Reform, 15 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 307 (2003)
Assessing Apprendi s Aftermath, 15 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 73 (2002)
The Start of the Next Revolution? Recent State Reforms in the Sentencing of Drug Offenders, 14 FEDERAL
SENTENCING REPORTER 327 (2002)
Addressing Capital Punishment Through Statutory Reform, 63 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 1 (2002)
Perspectives on the Federal Death Penalty, 14 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 1 (2001)
(with Adam Thurschwell)
The Practices and Practicalities of Criminal History, 13 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 307 (2001)
(with Mark Osler)
Appraising and Appreciating Apprendi, 12 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 303 (2000)
Thinking Outside the Boxes, 12 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 63 (1999)
Defense Advocacy Under the Guidelines, 11 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 299 (1999)
Considerations for Direction of Federal Sentencing Reform, 11 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 175
(1999)
Windows into Sentencing Policy & Practice: Crack/Cocaine Ratio and Appeal Waivers, 10 FEDERAL
SENTENCING REPORTER 179 (1998)
Previewing Fourteen of the Most Significant Articles from Years Past, 10 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER
3 (1997) (with Daniel Freed)
A Year in the Life of the Guidelines, 9 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 280 (1997)
The Koon Case: Departures and Discretion, 9 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 4 (1996) (w/ Mark Harris)
Is Fact Bargaining Undermining the Sentencing Guidelines?, 8 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 300
(1996)
Organizational Fines for Environmental Offenders, 8 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 204 (1996)
Time for Real Change: New Commission s Responsibilities, 8 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 4 (1995)
Home Detention as Alternative Punishment for Criminal Offenders: Research Guide, 13 LEGAL REFERENCE
SERVICES QUARTERLY 45 (1994)
Introduction, Developments in the Law - Legal Responses to Domestic Violence, 106 HARVARD LAW
REVIEW 1501 (1993) (with Robert S. Loigman)
Comment, Hudson v. McMillian, in Supreme Court, 1991 Term, 106 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 220 (1992)
PRESENTATIONS, PANELS AND RELATED SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Since becoming a law professor, I have given hundreds of lectures or presentations on a variety of scholarly
topics to a variety of audiences. Presented below is a select sample of these activities.
Invited Participant, third meeting of Stanford Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections, Stanford
Criminal Justice Center, special event at Stanford Law School (Sept. 2007)
Invited Participant, Back-end sentencing, annual conference of the National Association of Sentencing
Commissions (Aug. 2007)
Invited Presenter, Sentencing After Booker, Judicial Conference for the District of Massachusetts
(June 2007)
Invited Presenter, The Future of Legal Research, Chicago-Kent College of Law symposium (May 2007)
Invited Participant, Miscarriages of Justice, special conference at Harvard Law School (Nov. 2006)
Invited Participant, Federalism and Sentencing, annual conference of the National Association of
Sentencing Commissions (Aug. 2006)
Invited Participant, National Sentencing Policy Institute, Federal Judicial Center (July 2006)
Invited Participant, Sentencing Workshop Class of Judge Nancy Gertner, Yale Law School (May 2006)
Invited Presenter, Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, Harvard Law School
symposium (Apr. 2006)
Invited Panelist, Blakely, Booker and Sentencing Realities, Harvard Law School Blackletter Law
Journal (Apr. 2006)
Invited Participant, first meeting of Stanford Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections, Stanford
Criminal Justice Center, special event at Stanford Law School (Mar. 2006)
Invited Lecturer, A Capital Waste of Time? A Critical Examination of the Supreme Court s Certiorari
Choices in Criminal Cases, Ohio Northern Pettit College of Law Dean s Lecture Series (Mar. 2006)
Invited Presenter, The Rise of Law-Related Web Blogs: Growing Popularity and Influence, Columbus
Federalist Society (Mar. 2006)
Invited Presenter, Tweaking Booker: Making Advisory Guidelines Work in the Federal System, Houston
Law Review symposium (Nov. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Conceptualizing Booker, Arizona State Law Review symposium (Nov. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Conceptualizing Booker, 2005 Friedman & Gilbert Criminal Law Forum lecture at
the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Oct. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Federal Sentencing After Booker, New York State Bar Association (Sept. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Sentencing After Blakely, North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers (Sept. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in the Federal System annual conference of the
National Association of Sentencing Commissions (Aug. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Federal Sentencing After Booker, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference (June 2005)
Invited Participant, Roundtable: The Impact of Booker, University of Illinois College of Law (Apr.
2005)
Invited Presenter, The Modern Law and Politics of Sentencing Reform lecture to local chapter of
American Constitutional Society at University of Minnesota School of Law (Apr. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Federal Sentencing Guidelines after Booker and Fanfan, National video conference
hosted by ALI-ABA (Mar. 2005)
Invited Participant and Presenter, The New Media and its Impact on the Coverage of the Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court Fellows Program (Feb. 2005)
Invited to Testify, U.S. v. Booker/Fanfan and the Impact on Federal Sentencing, United States
Sentencing Commission (Feb. 2005)
Invited Presenter, Reconceptualizing Sentencing, faculty workshop at the University of North
Carolina School of Law (Jan. 2005)
Invited to Testify, Blakely and the Future of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, United States Sentencing
Commission (Nov. 2004)
Keynote Speaker, Punishment and Crime, University of Chicago Legal Forum symposium (Nov. 2004)
Invited Participant and Presenter, The Future of American Sentencing: A National Roundtable on
Blakely, Stanford Law School (Oct. 2004)
Invited Presenter, The Legal Barriers to Reentry in Ohio: Collateral Sanctions in Theory and Practice,
University of Toledo Law Review symposium (Sept. 2004)
Invited Panelist, A Supreme Mess: Blakely, Sentencing, and the Separation of Powers, Harvard Law
School (Sept. 2004)
Invited Presenter, Sentencing Reform and Mandatory Minimums, Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation s 34th Annual Legislative Conference (Sept. 2004)
Invited Presenter, Developments in Federal Sentencing Law, annual meeting of United States
Attorneys for the Southern District of Ohio (July 2004)
Invited Presenter, Death Penalty Developments, annual meeting of Ohio Common Pleas
Judges Association in Columbus, Ohio (Dec. 2003)
Invited Presenter, Who Decides Sentences? testimony presented to American Bar Association s Justice
Anthony Kennedy Commission in Washington D.C. (Nov. 2003)
Moderator, Debating Gun Control, Federalist Society panel at Moritz College of Law (Sept. 2003)
Invited Presenter, The Feeney Amendment and Downward Departures, presented at University of
Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (June 2003)
Invited Presenter, Supreme Court Developments in Sentencing Law presentation to attendees of
Judges Day at the Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio (March 2003)
Invited Participant, Symposium on the Federal Guidelines Sentencing, Yale Law School (Nov. 2002)
Invited Presenter, The Realities of Federal Guideline Sentencing, panel discussion sponsored by the
American Constitution Society at the Moritz College of Law (Oct. 2002)
Invited Presenter, Fifteen Years of Federal Guidelines Sentencing: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
workshop for federal defenders and CJA attorneys at the Federal Judicial Center (July 2002)
Invited Reviewer, reviewing Getting to Death: Fairness and Efficiency in the Processing and Conclusion
of Death Penalty Cases after Furman authored by Professors Jeffrey Fagan, James S. Liebman, and Valerie
West and co-authors for U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (Summer 2002)
Invited Reviewer, reviewing a draft casebook entitled Criminal Law: Cases, Materials, and Strategies
authored by Professor David Crump for LexisNexis Law School Publishing (Spring 2002)
Invited Presenter, The Successes and Pitfalls of Drug Courts presented during a two-day symposium
entitled New Voices in the Drug War at the Villanova College of Law (Oct. 2001)
Invited Presenter, From Lawlessness to Too Much Law? Exploring the Risk of Disparity From
Differences in Defense Counsel under Guidelines Sentencing presented during three-day symposium at the
University of Iowa (June 2001)
Faculty Symposium Editor of two-day academic conference at The Ohio State University College of Law
entitled Addressing Capital Punishment Through Statutory Reform during which I also served as a
Presenter of Legal Process Lessons: Reasons to Reconsider Opposition to the Death Penalty (Mar. 2001)
Invited Panelist, 2001 Kastenmeier Colloquium, Sentencing Criminals: After a Quarter Century of Reform,
Where Are We?, panel discussion at The University of Wisconsin Law School (Mar. 2001)
OTHER SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
The Ohio State University
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching Selection Committee Member (School Years 2000-2003)
Served as regular member, and then Chair in 2002-2003 of Committee which selects no more than ten Ohio State
faculty members from a pool of nearly 3000 eligible candidates for this university-wide teaching award
NCAA Self Study Committee (School Years 2001-2003)
Served on the Governance Working Group of the Governance and Compliance Sub-Committee to meet with
University administrators and draft report documenting University s adherence to NCAA rules.
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Clerkship and Professional Development Committee (School Years 2003-2007)
Served as Chair seeking to facilitate greater student interest in, and access to, clerkships and other opportunities
Minority Affairs Committee (School Year 2003-2004)
Served as Chair conducting climate study of student attitudes towards diversity issues
Caf Society (School Years 2002-2004)
Served as member and the co-Chair of committee in charge of major renovation of Drinko Hall student lounge
Admissions Committee (School Years 2002-2003, 1997-1998)
Served as Chair in 2002-2003 exploring revisions to criteria and processes for admission of Class of 2006
Long-Range Planning Committee (School Years 2006-2008, 2001-2002)
Serving as Chair of full Committee in 2006-07 spearheading development of College s Leadership Initiative
Served as Chair of subcommittee in 2001-02 exploring student housing options and College space needs
Academic Affairs Committee (School Years 1998-2001)
Played an integral role in the development and ultimate approval of modifications to the first-year curriculum
Advisory Board Member for Center for Law, Policy and Social Science (2004 to present)
Faculty Advisor to Criminal Procedure Moot Court Team (School Years 2000-2007)
Advisory Board Member for Pro Bono Research Group (School Years 1998-2004)
Faculty Advisor to Criminal Law Society (School Years 1999-2004)
Ohio State Law Journal
Faculty Symposium Editor (School Year 2000-2001)
Organizer of conference in March 2001 entitled Addressing Capital Punishment Through Statutory Reform
Association of the Bar of City of New York
Committee on Legal Education & Admission to the Bar
Secretary (Winter 1996 - Summer 1997)
Worked on Committee s response to the Report of the Professional Education Project ( the Sullivan Report ),
which addressed legal education and professional development in New York.
American Bar Assoc., Working Group on Unmet Legal Needs of Children & Families
Research Assistant (Summer 1993)
Assisted with Working Group s report, America s Children at Risk: A National Agenda for Legal Action (1993).
Member of: New York Bar
Association of American Law Schools Section on Criminal Justice
The Ohio State University Academy of Teaching
American Bar Association
Admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous lower courts
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