Alan C. Michaels | |
---|---|
19th Dean of Moritz College of Law | |
In office November 1, 2008 –June 30, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Nancy H. Rogers |
Succeeded by | Lincoln L. Davies |
Personal details | |
Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (JD) |
Occupation | Professor Lawyer Administrator |
Website | Alan C. Michaels |
Alan C. Michaels was the nineteenth Dean and Edwin M. Cooperman Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. [1] Michaels was a law clerk to Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court in 1987.
Michaels graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 1983. He then received his J.D. degree from the Columbia Law School in 1986,where he was the notes and comments editor for the Columbia Law Review. [1]
Michaels began his legal career as a clerk for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1986,and then Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court in 1987. Between 1988 and 1991,Michaels worked at McGuire &Tiernan in New York City,where he was outside counsel to the Major League Baseball Players Association. Michaels then served as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office as a member of the Career Criminal Bureau from 1991 to 1995.[ citation needed ]
Michaels entered academia in 1995 when he joined the faculty of the Moritz College of Law. Since joining Moritz,Michaels was twice presented the College’s Outstanding Professor Award as voted by the graduating classes of 2000 and 1999. In 2007,Michaels was given the university’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. In November 2008,the Ohio State University Board of Trustees named Michaels the nineteenth Dean of the Moritz College of Law. [2] He remained in this position for 11 years,ably steering Moritz through a period of upheaval in the national legal job market and hence declining admissions to law school. At the time he stepped down as dean,Moritz had risen to a national ranking of #34 by U.S. News &World Report.
Michaels scholarly work focuses on criminal law and sports law. He is coauthor with Professor Joshua Dressler of Understanding Criminal Procedure (4th edition) and serves as co-managing editor of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. He also was the recipient of the 1998-99 Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools. [3]
Bowers v. Hardwick,478 U.S. 186 (1986),was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that upheld,in a 5–4 ruling,the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults,in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy,though the law did not differentiate between homosexual sodomy and heterosexual sodomy. This case was overturned in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas,though the statute had already been struck down by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1998.
United States v. Nixon,418 U.S. 683 (1974),was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon,ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court. Issued on July 24,1974,the decision was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal,when there was an ongoing impeachment process against Richard Nixon. United States v. Nixon is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any U.S. president to claim executive privilege.
Harry Andrew Blackmun was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon,Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade,which prohibits many state and federal restrictions on abortion.
The University of Minnesota Law School is the law school of the University of Minnesota,located in Minneapolis,Minnesota. The school confers four law degrees:a Juris Doctor (J.D.),a Master of Laws (LL.M.),a Master of Science in Patent Law (M.S.P.L.),and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.). The J.D. program offers a number of concentration opportunities,as well as dual and joint degree options with other graduate and professional schools of the university.
Bruce Robert Jacob was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Wainwright,the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections,in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright,decided in March 1963,regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner,Clarence Gideon,was Abe Fortas,a Washington,D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a “special circumstance”present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example,if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young,or lacked education or experience,was unfamiliar with court procedures,or if the charges against him were complex,the trial court was required under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to appoint counsel. The Court in Gideon overruled Betts and required state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants in all felony prosecutions.
Michelle Alexander is an American writer and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018,she has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times.
Vikram David Amar is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law,federal courts,and civil and criminal procedure. In August 2015,he became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law. He was the first American-born person of Indian descent to serve as a dean of a major American law school.
The Michael E. Moritz College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the Ohio State University. Founded in 1891,the school is located in Drinko Hall on the main campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus,Ohio. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools.
Karen Nelson Moore is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her chambers are in Cleveland,Ohio.
Thomas W. Merrill, a legal scholar,is the Charles Evans Hughes professor at Columbia Law School. He has also taught at Yale Law School and Northwestern University School of Law.
Keith P. Ellison is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His chambers are in Houston,Texas.
Pamela Susan Karlan is an American legal scholar who is the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. She is on a leave of absence from Stanford Law School. A leading legal scholar on voting rights and constitutional law,she previously served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the DOJ's Civil Division from 2014 to 2015.
President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from Supreme Court of the United States the previous year. Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren,and during his time in office appointed three other members of the Supreme Court:Associate Justices Harry Blackmun,Lewis F. Powell,and William Rehnquist. Nixon also nominated Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the vacancy that was ultimately filled by Blackmun,but the nominations were rejected by the United States Senate. Nixon's failed Supreme Court nominations were the first since Herbert Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was rejected by the Senate.
Duke University School of Law is the law school of Duke University,in Durham,North Carolina,United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges,the School of Law is a constituent academic unit that began,in 1868,as the Trinity College School of Law. In 1924,following the renaming of Trinity College to Duke University,the school was renamed Duke University School of Law.
Andrew G. McBride is an American attorney based in Washington,D.C.,and a former U.S. Supreme Court law clerk,U.S. Department of Justice official,and Assistant United States Attorney.
Francis X. ("Frank") Beytagh was the thirteenth Dean and Professor Emeritus of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Beytagh was a senior law clerk to chief justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court from 1963 to 1964.
James E. Meeks was the fifteenth dean and professor emeritus of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Ryan Dean Newman is an American lawyer and former United States Army Captain. He currently serves as the General Counsel to the Florida Governor,Ron DeSantis. Prior to his current post,he was Counselor to the Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice. Previously he served as Deputy General Counsel for the United States Department of Defense,Acting Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice in the Office of Legal Policy.
Beatrice Rosenberg (1908-1989) was a prominent attorney at the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Rosenberg argued over thirty cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and supervised over 2,500 briefs submitted to the Court. The District of Columbia Bar gives an annual award in her honor.