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Monte Smith

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
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smith.747@osu.edu
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Education and Experience

  • BA, The Ohio State University
  • JD, The Ohio State University

Biography

After graduating from the College, Professor Smith worked as an associate at Jones Day before becoming a career law clerk for the Honorable Sandra S. Beckwith of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. For eleven years, from 2006 to 2017, he was Moritz’s assistant dean for academic affairs. He returned to Moritz to teach as a visiting senior lecturer in 2019 and in 2020 joined the permanent faculty.

Monte Smith & Mary Beth Beazley, Briefs and Beyond: Persuasive Legal Writing (2021).

Monte Smith & Mary Beth Beazley, Legal Writing for Legal Readers: Predictive Writing for First-Year Students (3rd ed. 2022).

Monte Smith, Ruth Colker, Ellen E. Deason, Deborah Jones Merritt & Abigail Shoben, Formative Assessments: A Law School Case Study, 94 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 387 (2018)

Monte Smith & Terri L. Enns, Take a (Cognitive) Load Off: Creating Space to Allow First-Year Legal Writing Students to Focus on Analytical and Writing Processes, 20 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 109 (2015)

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