As you may have heard, Justice Ginsburg is expected to speak at the April 10 Ohio State Law Journal symposium in her honor. The symposium, entitled “The Jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Discussion of Fifteen Years on the U.S. Supreme Court,” will feature a number of the country's foremost legal scholars who will consider Justice Ginsburg's impact on various substantive areas of law and American jurisprudence, more generally. Topics to be discussed will include constitutional law, civil and criminal procedure, statutory interpretation, and labor and employment law.

Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis for the event. To attend, please register at this link. If you’re unable to attend, the entire symposium will be streamed live and archived at this link.

Justice Ginsburg is expected to speak starting at 4:30 p.m. She will join her official biographer Professor Wendy Webster Williams, of the Georgetown University Law Center, and her former clerk Professor Deborah Jones Merritt, of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Stephen E. Chappelear ’77 has no shortage of leadership experience on his resume. But that hasn’t stopped the Columbus attorney from setting ambitious goals as a part of his most recent endeavor.

Chappelear is now president of the Ohio State Bar Foundation (OSBF), which he refers to as one of the most dynamic and successful bar foundations in the nation.

“I’ve attended several national bar foundation meetings, and the Ohio State Bar Foundation is looked upon as a leader,” he said. “When we say something, everyone perks up. They are listening to what we are saying.”

Slated to start in April 2008, she was sworn in on a Monday for her new position. On Tuesday, Forbes-Schmitt, who was then seven months pregnant, learned she would be put on immediate bed rest. “I was at my dream job for exactly one day,” she said.

After giving birth four weeks later and taking an additional six weeks off for maternity leave, she returned to her position as a full-time judge in the end of the June of the same year. Forbes-Schmitt continues as an ALJ for the Social Security Administration in Charleston, S.C. (Read More)

“The team of Abby Andre, Chris Montgomery, and Barbara Schwabauer are all exceptionally talented, but all their hard work in mastering the difficult legal issues in the problem really made the difference in the competition,” said Moritz Professor Paul Rose, the team’s advisor. (Read More)

"The competitors in the final were outstanding,” said Anne Doyle, director of the Moot Court and Lawyering Skills Program. “The judges stated that their decision was extremely close. The judges were very impressed by the competitors’ poise and skill. I want to thank 2L Orlie Benjamin who did a great job coordinating the event, and special thanks to the witnesses." (Read More)