University of Cincinnati College of Law

University of Cincinnati
College of Law

University of Cincinnati Seal
Motto	Juncta Juvant ("Strength in Unity")
Type	Public (state university)
Established	1833
Dean	Jennifer S. Bard
Students	385
Location	Cincinnati , Ohio , USA
Campus	Urban
Website	www.law.uc.edu

The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continually running law school in the United States and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools. Then-dean and future 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft (1880), merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896.

The school has produced both a President of the United States (William Howard Taft) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (both Taft and Willis Van Devanter). The school has also produced a Vice President of the United States, Charles G. Dawes, and a Secretary of Commerce, Charles W. Sawyer.

Ranking

Entrance to the College of Law from Clifton Avenue.

U.S. News & World Report, perhaps the most well-known publisher of unofficial law school rankings, listed Cincinnati's full-time Juris Doctor program as 82nd in the nation in 2015.

The College's trial courtroom, where Cincinnati-area state and federal judges conduct proceedings in real cases several times each year.

Statue of former Dean William Howard Taft outside the College of Law. Taft went on to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States.

Another view of the Taft statue.

Deans of the College of Law

Dean	Years Served
Timothy Walker	1833–1843
William S. Groesbeck	1844–1869
Charles L. Telford
Maskell S. Curwen	1850–1868
Rotated among faculty	1869–1873
J. Bryant Walker	1873-1874
Rufus King	1875–1880
Jacob D. Cox	1880–1897
William H. Taft	1897–1900
Gustavus H. Wald	1900–1902
William P. Rogers	1902–1916
Albert B. Benedict	1916–1926
Merton L. Ferson	1926–1946
Frank S. Rowley	1946–1952
Roscoe L. Barrow	1952–1965
Claude S. Sowle	1965–1969
Samuel S. Wilson	1969–1970 1973* 1974–1978
Edward A. Mearns, Jr.	1970–1973
Victor E. Schwartz	1973–1974*
Jorge L. Carro	1978–1979*
Gordon A. Christenson	1979–1986 I- Thomas Gerety 1986-1989
Joseph P. Tomain	1989–1990* 1990–2005
Louis D. Bilionis	2005-2015
Jennifer S. Bard	2015-present

*Acting

Publications

A study area in the Marx Law Library.

UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

A lecture hall for larger classes at the College of Law.

A smaller classroom fitted with a variety of instructional technologies.

Location

The College of Law is located in Cincinnati, Ohio which is the 64th largest city in the United States--List of United States cities by population, while the Cincinnati-Middletown metropolitan area is the 24th largest in the country by population--United States metropolitan areas. The Greater Cincinnati area is home to over 685 law firms. Notably, Cincinnati's downtown is the site for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit courthouse, and also the courthouse for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Furthermore, Cincinnati is home to 10 Fortune 500 companies including being the headquarters for Procter & Gamble, Fifth Third Bank, GE Aviation, Macy's, Inc. and Kroger.

The College of Law is located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Notable alumni

The period from 1925 to 1929 was a golden era for the school's alumni. During this time, UC Law alumni had significant influence in all three branches of the federal government. Charles G. Dawes was Vice President (and therefore also President of the Senate), Nicolas Longworth was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and William Howard Taft was Chief Justice of United States. Also during this time, alumnus Miller Huggins managed the New York Yankees to World Series championships in 1927 and 1928.

See also: Category:University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni

Name	Year of Graduation	Notable Accomplishments
John D. Altenburg	1973	Major General and military lawyer (U.S. army ret.) appointed authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo
Helen Elsie Austin	1930	A U.S. Foreign Service Officer and the first black woman to graduate from UC Law
William M. Barker	1967	Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
Michael Ryan Barrett	1977	District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Sandra Beckwith	1968	Chief Judge and the first woman to sit on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Theodore Ted Berry	1931	First African-American mayor of Cincinnati, has been called "Mr. Cincinnati", advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and pivotal attorney in the Civil Rights Movement for the NAACP
Howard Landis Bevis	1910	President of Ohio State University, Ohio Supreme Court
Joseph Gurney Cannon	1859, attended	U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1903–1911)
Samuel Fenton Cary	1837	U.S. Congressman representing Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives (1867–1869), United States Vice Presidential candidate, prohibitionist
Stan Chesley	1960	Nationally recognized attorney of Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A., well known for his expertise with class action lawsuits; has been referred to as "The Prince of Torts"
Norton Parker Chipman	1859	Chief JAG Prosecutor at Andersonville, Secretary of the District of Columbia, U.S. Congressman, Author, and First Presiding Justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal
Donald D. Clancy	1948	Former U.S. Congressman representing Ohio in the House of Representatives (1961–1977) and former mayor of Cincinnati
James Beauchamp Clark	1875	U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1911–1919)
Cris Collinsworth	1991	Former wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals and current television sportscaster for NBC Sunday Night Football
Charles G. Dawes	1886	30th Vice President of the United States (1925–1929) and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
James W. Denver	1844	Governor of the Kansas Territory (1857–1858), Secretary of State of California (1853–1855) and namesake of Denver, Colorado
Joe Deters	1982	Ohio State Treasurer (1999–2005), Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio (2005–present)
Richard P. Ernst	1880	U.S. Senator from Kentucky (1921–1927)
John J. Gilligan	1947	Governor of Ohio (1971-1975)
Judson Harmon	1870	Attorney General of the United States (1895–1897), Governor of Ohio (1909–1913)
John David Holschuh	1951	Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
John Wesley Hoyt	1849, attended	Third Governor of the Wyoming Territory, List of Governors of Wyoming (1878-1882)
Miller Huggins	1902	Manager of the New York Yankees, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
David P. Hull	1840	Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Henry Thomas Hunt	1903	Mayor of Cincinnati (1912–1913)
Charles Keating	1948	Founding partner of Keating, Muething & Klekamp; appointed to one of Richard Nixon's Presidential Commissions
William J. Keating	1950	U.S. Congressman in the House of Representatives (1971–1974);partner of Keating, Meuthing & Klekamp
Sharon L. Kennedy	1991	Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Joseph P. Kinneary	1935	ret. Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, The Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse dedicated in 1998
Nicholas Longworth	1894	U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1925–1931)
Charlie Luken	1976	U.S. Congressman and mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1984–1991, 1999–2006)
Harold G. Maier	1963	International Law Scholar; former Counselor on International Law, U.S. Department of State
Carrington T. Marshall	1892	Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1921-1932) Presiding Judge, Nuremberg War Crimes Trial (1947)
William Billy Martin	1976	Prominent defense attorney of Washington D.C.; represented Marcia Lewis during the Lewinsky scandal, the parents of Chandra Levy, former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell, former NBA player Jayson Williams, and most recently NFL Quarterback Michael Vick
Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.	1875	United States Solicitor General (1893–1895)
Edwin P. Morrow	1902	Governor of Kentucky (1919–1923)
Hugh L. Nichols	1886	Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1913-1921) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1911-1913)
Edward Follansbee Noyes	1858	Governor of Ohio (1872–1874)
John M. Pattison	1872	Governor of Ohio (1906)
Atlee Pomerene	1886	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1910–1911) and United States Senator (1911–1923)
William S. Richardson	1943	Former Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court (1966–1982); The University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law is named after him for his dedication to its establishment
Thomas M. Rose	1973	District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Charles W. Sawyer	1911	Secretary of Commerce (1948 to 1953)
David M. Smolin	1986	children's/human rights activist and law professor at Cumberland School of Law, Director of Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics.
Bob Taft	1976	Governor of Ohio (1999–2007)
William Howard Taft	1880	27th President of the United States (1909–1913), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930) and United States Solicitor General (1890–1892)
Willis Van Devanter	1881	Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1911–1937)

Employment

According to University of Cincinnati's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 53% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. Actually 69.1% (103/149)of Cincinnati’s Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term employment nine months after graduation that was either Bar Passage Required or J.D. Advantage. "JD-required" is not recognized as a category in the ABA-required disclosures. To achieve a "JD-required" calculation one has to combine two of the four ABA reporting categories - Bar Passage Required and J.D. Advantage.

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at University of Cincinnati for the 2013-2014 academic year is $41,872 for residents and 59,380 for non-residents. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $159,045 for residents and $176,001 for non residents.

External links

• University of Cincinnati College of Law