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Marc Spindelman

Marc  Spindelman

Marc Spindelman

Moritz College of Law

spindelman.1@osu.edu

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Areas of Expertise

  • Bioethics
  • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Constitutional Law
  • Family Law
  • Feminist Legal Theory
  • Health Law
  • Law and Sexuality
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
  • Physician-Assisted Suicide

Education

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  • B.A., Johns Hopkins University

Marc Spindelman, the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, Professor Spindelman clerked for Judge (now Chief Judge) Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circut, and was an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City.

After leaving Wall Street, he was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School, taught as a Visiting Instructor at the University of Michigan Law School, and spent two years as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. While a Greenwall Fellow, Professor Spindelman was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, a Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Research Fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

Since joining the faculty at the Moritz College of Law, Professor Spindelman has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center (Spring '05), and at the University of Michigan Law School (AY '07-'08).

His recent scholarship (see below) focuses on certain problems of inequality, chiefly in the context of sex and death. He regularly teaches courses on Family Law, Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Bioethics and Public Health Ethics, and Sexual Violence.

BOOKS

Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman, and Philomilia Tsoukala, Family Law: Cases and Materials (6th Edition 2012)

Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman, and Philomilia Tsoukala, Family Law: Cases and Materials (Concise Edition 2012)

ARTICLES

Sexuality’s Law, 24 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 87

Tyrone Garner’s Lawrence v. Texas, 111 Michigan Law Review 1111 (2013)

On the Constitutionality of Ohio’s Proposed “Heartbeat Bill”, 74Ohio State Law Journal 147 (2013)

Gay Men and Sex Equality, 46 Tulsa Law Review 123 (2010)

Feminism Without FeminismIssues in Legal Scholarship, Dec. 2011, art. 8

Foreword: Progressive Constitutionalism Considered, 72 Ohio State Law Journal (2011)

House Rule XII: Congress and the Constitution, 72 Ohio State Law Journal  (2011)

Sexual Freedom’s Shadows, 23 Yale J.L. and Feminism 179 (2011)

Anti-abortion ‘Heartbeat Bill’ unlikely to withstand courtCincinnati Enquirer, April 24, 2011

Justice Ginsburg’s Benchwork, 70 Ohio State Law Journal 797 (2010)

Toward a Progressive Perspective on Justice Ginsburg’s Constitution, 70 Ohio State Law Journal 1115 (2010)

Death, Dying, and Domination, 106 Michigan Law Review 1641 (2008) 

Foreword: Some Early Views on District of Columbia v. Heller, 69Ohio State Law Journal 603 (2008)

State v. Carswell: The Whipsaws of Backlash, 24 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 165 (2007) (invited)

Some Thoughts on Same-Sex Prostitution, 8 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1013 (2007) (invited)

Ohio Court Redefines the Future for Gays, LesbiansThe Plain Dealer, August 16, 2007, at B9

The Honeymoon’s OverLegal Times, June 12, 2006, at 66

Andrea Dworkinin New Makers of Modern Culture 430 (Justin Wintle ed., 2007)

Homosexuality’s Horizon, 54 Emory Law Journal 1361 (2005) (invited)

Foreword to 2004 Symposium: Equality, Privacy and Lesbian and Gay Rights After Lawrence v. Texas, 65 Ohio State Law Journal 1057 (2004)

Sketches of Yale Kamisar, 2 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 1 (2004)

Yale, 102 Michigan Law Review 1747 (2004) (invited)

Surviving Lawrence v. Texas, 102 Michigan Law Review 1615 (2004) (invited)

Sodomy Politics in Lawrence v. TexasJurist, June 12, 2003

Sex Equality Panic, 13 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 (2004)

A Dissent from the Many Dissents from Attorney General Ashcroft’s Interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act, 19 Issues in Law & Medicine 3 (2003)

Discriminating Pleasures, in Directions in Sexual Harassment Law201 (Catharine A. MacKinnon and Reva Siegel eds., 2003) (invited)

Protecting Suicide and Hurting Women (off-site), Legal Times, May 27, 2002, at 51. On the same topic, see also WBUR-Boston’s National Public Radio-affiliated show The Connection” (off-site), WYPR-Baltimore’s Marc Steiner Show” (.mp3)

Legislating Privilege, 30 Journal of LawMedicine & Ethics 24 (2002) (invited)

Reorienting Bowers v. Hardwick, 79 North Carolina Law Review 359 (2001)

Some Initial Thoughts on Sexuality and Gay Men with AIDS in Relation to Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 91 (2001)

TESTIMONY

Testimony Regarding H.B. 125, Ohio Senate Health, Human Services, and Aging Committee, December 7, 2011 (Corrected March 12, 2012).

Testimony Regarding H.B. 125, Ohio House of Representatives Health and Aging Committee, March 23, 2011 (Corrected March 12, 2012).

NEWS

Professor Spindelman is regularly consulted by the press, chiefly domestic but also international, on a range of subjects about which he writes, including constitutional law, the law and ethics of death and dying, and lesbian and gay rights.

His views have appeared, among other places, in Time MagazineThe Wall Street Journal, the Washington PostUSA TodayChicago Tribune,Boston GlobeBoston HeraldLos Angeles TimesChristian Science MonitorMiami HeraldPhiladelphia InquirerNational Law Journal,Chicago Sun-TimesDetroit Free PressConnecticut PostDallas Morning NewsHouston ChronicleNational Law JournalGlobe and Mail(Toronto, Canada), Guardian Unlimited (UK, online), Taipei Times (online),Revista Veja (Brazil), and in stories that have gone out over the Associated Press and Agence France Presse wires. Closer to home, he’s been quoted in the Cleveland Plain DealerCincinnati Enquirer,Cincinnati PostColumbus DispatchDayton Daily News, and The (OSU) Lantern.

He has been on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, WBUR-Boston’s National Public Radio-affiliated show “The Connection” (off-site), WYPR-Baltimore’s “Marc Steiner Show” (.mp3), as well as ABC Nightly News, CNN, along with other television and radio outlets.