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3L Corey Bushle and I share an interest in state Constitutional Law, particularly in the Fourth Amendment context.  Corey, who is currently the editor-in-chief of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, has written a very thought-provoking Comment entitled “The Exclusionary Rule, and the Problem with Search and Seizure under the Ohio Constitution.” In his Comment…

Justice Michael Donnelly and First District Court of Appeals Judge Pierre Bergeron have co-authored an article in The Atlantic titled “How a Spreadsheet Could Change the Criminal Justice System” in which they argue that “a lack of data instills trial-court judges with enormous, largely unrestrained sentencing power,” and make the case for a sentencing database…

 Catherine Sharkey, who is Crystal Eastman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, has written a thought-provoking, and in light of the recent Supreme Court of Ohio decision in Stiner v. Amazon.com, Inc., Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-4632, timely law review article entitled “Holding Amazon Liable as a Seller of Defective…

In recent years, the University of Cincinnati Law School Law Review members have invited me to suggest topics for articles for them to consider writing about.

The Supreme Court of Ohio’s decision in  Schmitz v. Natl. Collegiate Athletic Assn., 2018-Ohio-4391 caught the fancy of Nick Eaton, who is a 3L at the University of…

I am re-posting Attorney Bill Gallagher’s guest post on bail reform to include some additional information from him.

From Guest Blogger Bill Gallagher: The blog post I contributed on February 18, 2019 (re-posted below) was my condensation of a twenty-two page set of public comments  submitted to the Supreme Court of Ohio on September 26,…

Please read update to this post here.

On January 23, 2019, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor convened a task force to examine the Ohio bail system. Read about that from Court News Ohio here. In light of this initiative, I have asked prominent Cincinnati criminal defense attorney Bill Gallagher to write a guest post on the…

As promised in my earlier post, here is the more in-depth analysis of the decision in the bobblehead case, Cincinnati Reds, L.L.C. v. Testa, by University of Cincinnati Law Professor Stephanie Hunter McMahon, who teaches tax.

In addition to the guest post from Professor McMahon, readers might also be interested in Dan Trevas’ excellent summary…

Update: On November 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

I asked Professor Stephanie Hunter McMahon, who teaches tax at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, if she would give her impressions of the oral argument in the case of Cincinnati Reds…

*This guest post was co-authored by Professor Michael Solimine and Kristen Elia. Professor Solimine is the Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has written extensively on the topic of standing and civil procedure, and was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief filed on behalf of…

Tax is totally not my field. But recognizing the significance of the decision in Crutchfield Corp. v. Testa, I asked my University of Cincinnati College of Law tax colleague Professor Stephanie Hunter McMahon to analyze the decision in the case.  What follows is her superb guest post.

Guest Post on Crutchfield Corp. v. Testa…