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Faculty Speaker's Bureau

Below are the list of our Faculty Experts and the topics they are speaking on around the country. To arrange for a faculty speaker to visit your firm, contact lawjobs@case.edu. 

  • Bryan Adamson

    Bryan Adamson, MA, JD

    David L. Brennan Chaired Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Associate Dean of Diversity
    School of Law

    • First Amendment Freedoms of Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition
    • Protest and Civil Rights
    • Police and Militarization
    • Journalism, Media Law and Regulation
    • Critical media analysis
    • Race, Media and Culture
  • headshot of Jonathan H. Adler

    Jonathan H. Adler, JD

    Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
    School of Law

    • Making Sense of the US Supreme Court
    • The Fable of Federal Environmental Regulation
    • The Continuing Evolution of Administrative Law
  • headshot of Michael Benza

    Michael Benza, MA, JD

    Senior Instructor in Law
    School of Law
    Associate Director
    Financial Integrity Institute
    School of Law

    • 4th Amendment and the Resurgent Trespass Theory
    • Current State of Lethal Injection and the Death Penalty
    • Police Use of Force Issues (Brelo, Rice and Beyond)
    • The Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment, and Modern Technology
  • headshot of Jaime Bouvier

    Jaime Bouvier, JD

    Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills
    School of Law

    • Leadership in the Law: What Neuroscience, Psychology, and Organizational Behavior Can Teach Us About Being A Good Leader
    • Urban Agriculture Law & Policy: Food Systems and Local Land Use Laws
  • headshot of David J. Carney

    David J. Carney, JD

    Professor of Lawyering Skills
    School of Law

    • Education Law
    • Legal Writing
  • headshot Juscelino F. Colares

    Juscelino F. Colares, JD, PhD

    Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law
    School of Law
    Co-Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
    School of Law
    Professor
    Department of Political Science
    College of Arts and Sciences
    Director, JD/MA Political Science Program

    • Trade Law
    • Principles and Standards of Administrative Review
    • Procedural Law and Federalism
    • Big Data, Climate Change Litigation
    • Anti-Corruption Law in Business Transactions
  • headshot of Avidan Y. Cover

    Avidan Y. Cover, JD

    Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
    School of Law
    Director
    Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
    Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
    School of Law

    • International Law
    • Human Rights
  • headshot of Joseph A. Custer

    Joseph A. Custer, JD, MA, MBA

    Associate Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Ben C. Green Law Library
    School of Law

    • Legal Records
    • Electronic Discovery
  • headshot of Richard Gordon

    Richard Gordon, JD

    Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Financial Integrity Institute
    School of Law
    Associate Director
    Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
    School of Law

    • Integrity Compliance Requirements for Non-Experts
    • Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Compliance
  • Ayesha Bell Hardaway

    Ayesha Bell Hardaway, JD

    Co-Director
    Social Justice Institute
    Associate Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Social Justice Law Center
    School of Law

    • Criminal Law
    • Labor, 13th Amendment and Peonage
    • Race and the Law
    • Reparations
    • Consent Decrees, Police Reform, Civil Rights
  • Headshot of Jessie Hill

    Jessie Hill, JD

    Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
    School of Law

    • State of Reproductive Rights in Ohio & Beyond
    • Law and Religion
  • Sharona Hoffman

    Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM, SJD

    Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Professor
    Department of Bioethics
    School of Medicine
    Co-Director
    The Law-Medicine Center
    School of Law

    • Aging and the Law
    • Big Data, Health Information Technology
    • Artificial Intelligence and Law
    • Employment Discrimination
    • Pharmaceuticals and Law
    • Physician Burnout
  • headshot of Daniel A. Jaffe

    Daniel A. Jaffe, JD

    Director, LEAP Program
    School of Law
    Professor of Lawyering Skills
    School of Law

    • Public School Legal Issues
    • Public Sector Labor Relations
  • headshot of Charles Korsmo

    Charles Korsmo, JD

    Professor of Law
    School of Law

    • Appraisal Arbitrage and the Future of Public Company M&A
    • Merger Litigation
    • Corporate Governance
  • Cathy Lesser Mansfield

    Cathy Lesser Mansfield, JD

    Senior Instructor in Law
    School of Law
    Executive Director of the Master of Arts in Financial Integrity Program
    Financial Integrity Institute
    School of Law

    • Consumer Financial Protection
    • Consumer Financial Services
    • U.S. Mortgage Market
    • The Holocaust and the Law
  • headshot of Maxwell J. Mehlman

    Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD

    Distinguished University Professor
    Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Professor
    Department of Bioethics
    School of Medicine
    Director
    Law-Medicine Centers
    School of Law

    • Military Bioethics
    • Promoting Trust Between Patients and Health Care Providers
    • The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering
    • What’s Wrong with Doping in Sports?
    • Performance Enhancement and the Law
    • Medical Malpractice Myths
    • Governance of DIY Gene Editing
  • headshot of Kathryn S. Mercer

    Kathryn S. Mercer, JD, PhD

    Professor of Lawyering Skills
    School of Law

    • Child Welfare
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Ethics in Negotiation
    • Oral Advocacy
    • Mediation
    • Persuasive Brief Writing
  • headshot of Dale A. Nance

    Dale A. Nance, JD, MA

    Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor in Law and Criminal Justice
    School of Law

    • The Daubert Reliability Requirement: Why it is Meaningless, and How to Fix It
    • Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado: Have the Gates Opened to Impeachment of Jury Verdicts?
    • The Weights of Evidence: How Different Meanings Have Radically Different Implications
    • Choice of Law for Burdens of Proof
  • Craig Nard

    Craig A. Nard, JD, LLM, SJD

    Galen J. Roush Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
    School of Law

    • Patent Law and Policy
    • International Intellectual Property Law
    • Law and Innovation
  • headshot of Andrew S. Pollis

    Andrew S. Pollis, JD

    Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Appellate Litigation Clinic
    Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic
    School of Law

    • Appellate Jurisdiction (Ohio and Federal)
    • Standards of Appellate Review
    • Anders "No Merit" Briefs in Criminal Appeals
    • The Death of Inference: How Courts Have Eroded the Jury’s Power to Draw Inferences from Circumstantial Evidence, and What We Should Do About It
    • Trying the Trial: Why Jurors Should Be Permitted to Hear Evidence of Litigation Misconduct
    • Understanding Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b) – and Why It’s Time to Get Rid of It
    • Proposals for Streamlining Civil Litigation
  • headshot of Cassandra Burke Robertson

    Cassandra Burke Robertson, JD, MA, MPA

    John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Center for Professional Ethics
    School of Law

    • New Supreme Court Precedent on Personal Jurisdiction
    • Student Debt and Legal Ethics
    • Yelp for Lawyers: The Law and Ethics of Online Reviews
    • Conflicts of Interest
    • Judicial Independence
    • Judicial Disqualification
  • headshot of Matthew Rossman

    Matthew Rossman, JD

    Professor of Law
    School of Law
    Director
    Community Development Clinic
    Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center
    School of Law

    • Housing Market and Economic Development Tax Incentives
    • Community Development
    • Nonprofit Law/Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations
    • Transactional Law
  • headshot of Matthew Salerno

    Matthew A. Salerno, JD

    Assistant Professor
    School of Law

    • Corporate Restructuring
    • Bankruptcy and Insolvency
    • Contract Drafting
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Corporate Counseling
  • Maya Simek

    Maya Simek, MSSA, JD

    Director
    Human Trafficking Project
    Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic
    School of Law

    • Human Trafficking
    • LGBTQ Issues
    • Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Engagement and Collaborations
    • Social Work and the Law
    • HIV and the Law
  • Katharine Van Tassel

    Katharine Van Tassel, JD, MPH

    Director, Graduate Programs in Compliance and Risk Management
    School of Law
    The Law-Medicine Center
    School of Law

    • Governance, Compliance & Risk Management
    • Health Law
    • Healthcare Finance
    • Food, Drug & Biotech Law
    • Public Health Law
    • Eldercare Law