Faculty

Full-time

Jonathan H. Adler
Professor & Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation
B.A. 1991 (Yale University), J.D. 2000 (George Mason)
Jonathan H. Adler teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of three books on environmental policy, including Environmentalism at the Crossroads (1995), and several book chapters. A prolific writer, his articles have appears in numerous publications, ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. His television and radio appearances span an even broader spectrum, from CNN World News and NPR's Talk of the Nation to the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and Entertainment Tonight. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online, where he covers environmental and legal topics, and is a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, "The Volokh Conspiracy".

In 2004, Professor Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. Prior to this, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program.

Craig M. Boise
Associate Professor & Associate Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, B.A. summa cum laude 1991 (Missouri-Kansas City), J.D. 1994 (Chicago, Thomas R. Mulroy Prize), LL.M 1999 (NYU, taxation)
Craig M. Boise joined the faculty after eight years of private practice with law firms including Cleary Gottlieb and Akin Gump in New York, and Thompson Hine in Cleveland. Mr. Boise's practice focused on issues related to U.S. federal income taxation of corporations and partnerships, with particular emphasis on international mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and joint ventures. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Boise was clerk to the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman II of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He teaches and writes in the area of U.S. federal income taxation and U.S. international tax law and policy.


Arthur D. Austin II
Edgar A. Hahn Professor, B.S. 1958 (Virginia), J.D. 1963 (Tulane)
Before joining our faculty, Mr. Austin worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. He teaches Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Trends and Tensions in Legal Education. He has published three books as well as frequently cited articles in leading law reviews. He writes primarily on antitrust law and legal scholarship.

Ronald J. Coffey
Professor Emeritus, A.B. 1958 (Xavier), LL.B. 1961 (Cincinnati), LL.M. 1966 (Harvard)
Mr. Coffey , who began his career with the Cincinnati firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, has been a member of the Case faculty since 1966, with time out in 1971 as director of commerce for the State of Ohio. He teaches Business Associations and Securities Regulation (basic and advanced); his securities course materials are frequently cited by courts and scholars. He has visited at Stanford and Michigan and participated in numerous institutes, symposia, and conferences.

George W. Dent, Jr.
Schott-van den Eynden Professor, B.A. 1969, J.D. 1973 (Columbia), LL.M. 1981 (New York University)
Mr. Dent taught law at New York University, Cardozo, and the New York Law School before joining the Case School of Law faculty in 1990. He also clerked for Judge Paul R. Hays of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and practiced corporate law in New York with Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates. He teaches Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Business Planning. He has published many articles on corporate and securities law, including "Lawyers and Trust in Business Alliances," Business Lawyer (2002).

Jonathan Entin
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law and Political Science, A.B. 1969 (Brown), J.D. 1981 (Northwestern)
Before joining the Case faculty in 1984, Mr. Entin clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at work on a book about equal protection. Mr. Entin has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change, and a Supreme Court Seminar. Among his recent publications are "An Ohio Delimma: Race, Equal Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill of Rights," Cleveland State Law Review (2004), and "Judicial Selection and Political Culture," Capital University Law Review (2002).

Leon Gabinet
Professor, Ph.B. 1950, J.D. 1953 (Chicago)
Mr. Gabinet practiced law for many years in Oregon before coming to Case in 1968. He is coauthor of Tax Aspects of Marital Dissolution (1986, 2d edition 1998). He is a member of the American Law Institute and was invited to the Netherlands as a Cambridge-Tilburg lecturer.

Peter M. Gerhart
Professor, B.A. 1967 (Northwestern), J.D. 1971 (Columbia)
Former dean of the law school, Mr. Gerhart teaches teaches International Business Transactions, International Trade and Development, Torts, and a seminar in International Issues in Intellectual Property. Before joining the law school, he practiced in New York with Weil, Gotshal & Manges with an expertise in antitrust and trade regulation. His scholarly interests are in torts and globalization. He teaches Global Economic Issues in the EDM program of the Weatherhead School of Business and Intellectual Property at the Central European University in Budapest.

Richard Gordon
Associate Professor; U.S. Director, Canada-U.S. Law Instiute, B.A. 1978 (Yale), J.D. 1984 (Harvard)
Richard Gordon is Distinguished Practitioner in Residence for 2006-9. He teaches courses on business associations, corporate governance, financial sector integrity, and international and comparative taxation. Prior to coming to Case Western Reserve University, Mr. Gordon practiced law at Dewey Ballantine in Washington and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, where he was a visiting lecturer in the law faculty, and the Harvard Law School, where he was Deputy Director of the International Tax Program. While at Harvard Mr. Gordon completed extensive field work on law and development in both Indonesia and rural India, and advised the government of Indonesia on the reform of tax, company, and securities laws. After leaving Harvard Mr. Gordon joined the staff of the International Monetary Fund, where worked on a wide variety of issues, including public international law, governance, sovereign debt restructuring, and taxation. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 he was appointed to the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance and was a principal author of the report on the role of the IMF and World Bank in countering terrorism finance and money laundering. He is a principal author of the book Tax Law Design and Drafting (Aspen 2001) and the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.

Erik M. Jensen
David L. Brennan Professor, S.B. 1967 (MIT), M.A. 1972 (Chicago), J.D. 1979 (Cornell)
Mr. Jensen clerked for Judge Monroe G. McKay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and practiced in New York with Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the Case faculty in 1983. His specializes in taxation, business planning, and American Indian law. Recent publications include The Taxing Power (Praeger 2004); "The Export Clause," Florida Tax Review (2003); and "The Taxing Power, Sixteenth Amendment, and the Meaning of 'Incomes'" Arizona State Law Journal (2001).

Henry King
Professor & U.S. Director, Canada-U.S. Law Institute, B.A. 1941, LL.B. 1943 (Yale)
Mr. King practiced law in New York with Milbank, Tweed & Hope, and at age 26, served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. He then had a distinguished career as a corporate counsel, including more than twenty years with TRW Inc. as chief corporate international counsel. He teaches International Arbitration and is U.S. chair of a joint working group, organized by the American, Canadian, and Mexican bar associations, on the settlement of international disputes.

Gerald Korngold
Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor, B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977 (Pennsylvania)
After practice in Philadelphia with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Mr. Korngold taught-and was associate dean for academic affairs-at the New York Law School. He joined the Case faculty in 1987 and served as dean from 1997 to 2006. He has taught Property, Real Estate Transactions, and Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes (2004), coauthor of two casebooks, Real Estate Transactions (2004) and Cases and Text on Property (2004), and co-editor of Property Stories (2004). He served as an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Property-Servitudes.

Juliet P. Kostritsky
John Homer Kapp Professor, A.B. 1976 (Harvard), J.D. 1980 (Wisconsin)
Ms. Kostritsky, who joined Case in 1984 after practicing in New York with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, teaches Contracts, Property, and Commercial Paper. Her paper "Taxonomy for Justifying Legal Intervention in an Imperfect World: What To Do When the Parties Have Not Achieved Bargains or Have Drafted Incomplete Contracts," appears in Wisconsin Law Review (2004).

Raymond Ku
Professor and Associate Director, Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, A.B. 1992 (Brown), J.D. 1995 (New York University)
A nationally known expert in the field of copyright law, Mr. Ku is the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law. Prior to joining the law school faculty in 2003, he taught at Seton Hall University School of Law. Before entering academia, Mr. Ku clerked for Timothy K. Lewis, justice on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh. He also has been an associate with the law firms Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch LL.P. and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LL.P., both in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ku teaches courses in copyright law and cyberlaw.

Wilbur C. Leatherberry
Professor & Director of Skills Courses and Externship Program, A.B. 1965, J.D. 1968 (Case Western Reserve)
Before joining the faculty in 1973, Mr. Leatherberry spent three years as a Legal Aid attorney and two years as a legislative assistant to Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes. He teaches Contracts, Insurance, Secured Transactions, and Sales. From 1992 to 2000, he served as associate dean for academic affairs. He has been active in Alternative Dispute Resolution, helping to design the ADR program for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, conducting training programs for neutrals and advocates, and serving as a neutral in mediation or arbitration processes.

Jacqueline D. Lipton
Professor & Associate Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Co-Director, Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, B.A. 1989, LL.B. (Honors) 1991 (University of Melbourne), B.A. (Honors) 1990 (LaTrobe University), LL.M. 1995 (Monash University), LL.M. 1998 (Cambridge), Ph.D. 2000 (Griffith University)
Prior to joining the faculty in 2001, Dr. Lipton was a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. From 1997-1999, she served as lecturer at the law school and Associate Director of the Banking Law Center at Monash University in Australia. Dr. Lipton also worked for two major commercial law firms in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in banking and finance law and served as in-house corporate solicitor at a major Australian bank. Her scholarly interests are banking and finance law, personal property law, and the interplay between law and technology. She has published many journal articles in these areas and is the author of Security Over Intangible Property, published by LBC Information Services in Sydney, Australia (2000). Her teaching focuses primarily on comparative and international business and intellectual property law.

Kenneth R. Margolis
Professor; Director, CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program; Co-Director, Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic; B.A. 1972 (California, Santa Barbara), J.D. 1976 (Case Western Reserve)
Mr. Margolis was a principal in Fox & Margolis in Santa Cruz, California and practiced law in Cleveland before joining the faculty in 1984. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He teaches in the Community Development Clinic and Focused Problem Solving in the CaseArc program. His primary research and publcations are in the areas of attorney-client relations and the delivery of legal services.

Craig A. Nard
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, B.A. 1987 (Washington & Jefferson), J.D. 1990 (Capital), LL.M. 1995, J.S.D. 1999 (Columbia)
Mr. Nard is a Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy. He practiced intellectual property law in Dallas prior to becoming the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law. He then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Honorable Helen W. Nies, and then the Honorable Giles S. Rich. Before joining the Case faculty in 2001, he was an Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School. He is the author of the casebook Principles of Patent Law (Foundation Press 2001) and Fundamentals of U.S. Intellectual Property Law (Kluwer Law International 1999). Mr. Nard's teaching focuses on intellectual property and patent law.

Spencer Neth
Professor, B.A. 1961 (Miami University), J.D. 1964, LL.M. 1966 (Harvard)
Mr. Neth joined the faculty in 1970 after four years of practice in Boston. He teaches Contracts and courses in commercial law, products liability, and consumer protection. After spending a semester at Stanford University as an IBM Law and Computer Fellow, he founded and chaired the AALS (Association of American Law Schools) Section on Law and Computers and was partly responsible for Case School of Law's pioneering installation of LEXIS and the incorporation of computerized research into the curriculum. His scholarly activity is primarily in commercial law and alternative dispute resolution.

Morris G. Shanker
Professor, B.S.E.E. 1948 (Purdue), M.B.A., J.D. 1952 (Michigan)
Mr. Shanker, who practiced in Cleveland for ten years before joining the faculty in 1961, has a considerable reputation in the fields of commercial law, creditor-debtor law, and bankruptcy. In 1972 he served as Acting Dean. Mr. Shanker served on the original Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the U.S. Judicial Conference and has acted as a special master in the federal courts. He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute. He is also a certified arbitrator.

Calvin W. Sharpe
John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor and Director, CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution), B.A. 1967 (Clark), J.D. 1974 (Northwestern), M.A. 1996 (Chicago Theological Seminary)
Mr. Sharpe clerked for U.S. District Judge Hubert L. Will (Northern District, Illinois), practiced law in Chicago, spent four years as a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, and began his teaching career at Virginia. He teaches Evidence, Trial Tactics, Alternative Dispute Resolution and courses in labor and employment law. He has published in all four areas. He chaired the Evidence section of the Association of American Law Schools and the Section on Labor and Employment Law for the Industrial Relations Research Association (national). In addition, he held visiting appointments at George Washington, DePaul, Wake Forest, and Minnesota.

Robert N. Strassfeld
Professor; B.A. 1976 (Wesleyan), M.A. 1980 (Rochester), J.D. 1984 (Virginia)
Mr. Strassfeld, who joined Case in 1988, teaches Torts and courses in labor law and American legal history. He clerked for Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and then practiced in Washington D.C. for three years with the firm of Shea & Gardner. He has published articles on theoretical aspects of causation in the George Washington and Fordham law reviews and on law and the Vietnam War in the Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Duke law reviews. He is co-author of Understanding Labor Law (Matthew-Bender 1999).

Adjunct Faculty
Cleveland stands out as one of the nation's top legal and business centers. Home to four of the top fifty law firms, greater Cleveland is fourth in the nation based on the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered here. Students benefit from the law school's many ties to the legal and business communities. Legal practitioners, seving as Adjunct faculty, bring their expertise and practical experience to the classroom.

Mark Avsec
Senior Associate, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP,
Course: Law of the Music Industry

Thomas Barnard
Partner, Ulmer & Berne, LLP
Course: Topics on Advanced Labor Law

James Bildner
Chairman and Chief Executive Office, Tier Technologies
Courses: Business, Capital Markets & the Role of the Corporation in American Capital Markets, Venture Capital

Henry Billingsley, II
Tucker Ellis & West LLP
Course: Admiralty

Maureen Brennan
Partner, Baker & Hostetler, LLP
Course: Environmental Anatomy of a Business Transaction

Peter Carfagna
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner
Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Course: Sports & Entertainment Law

John Currivan
Partner, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue
Course: Advanced Partnership Tax

Joseph Dreher
Partner, Faye, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee
Course: Computer Law and Policy

Susan Jaros
Deputy Director of Development and External Affairs, Cleveland Museum of Art
Course: Law and the Visual Arts

Pamela Johnson
The Sherwin-Williams Co.
Course: Taxation of Property Transactions

Jason Korosec
Co-Founder and CEO, EagleCheck, Inc.
Course: e-Payment Systems

Hermann Krull
Course: Banking Law

Jeffrey Lietzke
Deputy General Counsel, Cuyahoga Community College
Courses: Representing the Internet Start-Up and Digital Law & Business

Larry J. Obhof
Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Course: Civil Procedure

Kevin O'Connor
Partner, Kohrman Jackson & Krantz
Course: Income Tax Accounting

Kathleen O'Malley
U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District Of Ohio
Course: Patent Litigation

Thomas Onusku
Partner, Arter & Hadden
Course: Health Care Organizations and Finance

David P. Porter
Partner, Jones Day
Course: Securities Law

Asmita Shirali, Esq.
Courses: Intellectual Property Transactions and Licensing, Legal Counsel to the Technology Entrepreneur

William Warren
General Counsel Emeritus, Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Legal Department
Courses: Real Estate Transactions and Finance, Advanced Real Estate Development - Shopping Centers

Deborah Wilcox
Partner, Baker & Hostetler
Course: Trademark Law