The Law School Magazine  ·  Winter 2013

Features

 

Meet this year’s journal editors-in-chief


Issue: Winter 2013
Barbara Jordan, Ohio State Law Journal, from New Albany, Ohio, graduated from The Ohio State University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. She worked in leadership roles prior to law school as a roadway and traffic engineer. Jor...

Read More »

Exit Interviews: 6 members of the class of 2012 reflect, share where they are headed


Issue: Spring 2012
JANIE HENRY Janie Henry ’12 will be clerking for U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Stamp in the Northern District of West Virginia. “My best experience at Moritz was my judicial externship with Judge Edmund Sargus of the U.S. District Court for...

Read More »

A Fractured Debate


Issue: Spring 2012
A New kind of natural gas mining is shaking up Ohio and brings with it the promise of jobs and affordable energy, but critics say there might be an unforeseen impact on the environment. The process of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, produces...

Read More »

Judicial Waiting Game


Issue: Spring 2012
After a statewide selection process, federal review, recommendations by both U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and former U.S. Sen. George Voinovich ’66, and introduction before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Toledo lawyer Jeffrey Helmick ’88 has bee...

Read More »

Sleeping Giant No More


Issue: Spring 2012
In 1978 in the United States, President Carter signed a bill allowing for the home brewing of beer; the Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl; and, in a Cold War move, computer sales to the Soviet Union were banned. In the People’s Republic of China, a...

Read More »

Servant The Leader: Brian Sandoval ’89 shares lessons learned during meteoric rise


Issue: Spring 2012
After the votes were counted and the victory secured, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval ’89 faced a num­ber of daunting challenges: Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in the United States and led the nation in fore­closures. The state’s high sch...

Read More »

Bringing the law to life


Issue: Spring 2012
Around 6 p.m. on a Monday night, two students sat at a table in the front of a lecture hall large enough for more than 70 students. Yet, they faced fewer than 10 sets of eyes staring back at them. The pair staring most intently belonged to James Davi...

Read More »

Office of Diversity & Inclusion works with students ‘seeking to understand’


Issue: Spring 2012
After taking steps to look at diversity in a broader sense – such as economic diversity, gender issues, and sexual orientation – The Ohio State Uni­versity Moritz College of Law has altered the name and programming focus of one of its offices. T...

Read More »

Baker Hostetler gives $500K for mentoring program


Issue: Spring 2012
Students enter the dining room at the Barrister Club, scanning the room for familiar faces. Their smiles break wide open as they extend a hand to the lawyers seated at their table. The dining room gets louder with the chatter and chuckles that result...

Read More »

Institute’s work mirrors director’s own story of success


Issue: Spring 2012
Sharon Davies is passionate about the mission of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity because she believes her life is proof of its fundamen­tal philosophy: Individual success is only partly attributable to character; it also is ...

Read More »

← Older Stories | Newer Stories →