Marc Spindelman, B.A., J.D.

Education and Experience

• BA, Johns Hopkins University
• JD, University of Michigan Law School

Biography

Marc Spindelman, nationally recognized as a leading scholar in multiple legal fields, is currently the Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law at Moritz. For over a decade he was the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law. Professor Spindelman regularly teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law Theory, Advanced Family Law, and a number of other specialty courses. In the past, he has taught courses on assisted suicide, bioethics, public health ethics, health law, sexual violence and the law, as well as The Lawyer in the Community and a distinctively innovative course called The Rule of Law in the Age of Legal Change. 

In addition to teaching at Ohio State, Professor Spindelman has been a visiting professor at Michigan Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. He’s also been a faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Professor Spindelman’s scholarship broadly focuses on questions of sexuality, reproduction, death, and love as they intersect law, society, and culture. His work has been published in a range of law reviews, including Michigan Law Review, Emory Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Georgetown Law Journal Online, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. In addition to his current and recent work in critical theory and on sex equality under law, including both LGBTQIA+ rights and reproductive justice, he is the co-author of a leading family law casebook published by Foundation University Press. He has also been quoted widely in the local, national, and international press. 

Before joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor Spindelman was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. While a Greenwall Fellow, in addition to teaching at Georgetown’s law school and Johns Hopkins’ school of public health, he was a research fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Before that, he was also a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, a law clerk for Judge Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and an associate at a Wall Street law firm.  

Since 2021, Professor Spindelman has served as co-editor of JOTWELL’s Equality Section.