Speaking Engagements

Past Selected Speaking Engagements

Invited Public Speaking Engagements, Panel Presentations & Academic Workshops

1) 2010. Keynote Speaker. Hypocrisy Cloaked as Humility Revisited: The Nationalization of Gun Rights And Conservative Judicial Activism in the Marble Temple; sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Kent State University, Stark Campus (in celebration of Constitution Day); Canton, Ohio; September 17.

2) 2008. Keynote Speaker. Hypocrisy Cloaked as Humility: Faint-Hearted Originalism, the Second Amendment and Gun Rights in the U.S. Supreme Court; sponsored by Libraries & Media Services and the Department of Political Science, Kent State University (in celebration of Constitution Day); Kent, Ohio; September 23.

3) 2008. Panel Participant. Buying Justice: The Money & Ethics of Judicial Campaigning; sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Hudson, Akron, Kent & North Portage County and Hudson Library & Historical Society; Hudson, Ohio; September 30.

4) 2008. Panel Participant. From Guns to Guantanamo: A Guide to Life in the Roberts Court Era; sponsored by Akron Press Club (broadcast over public television); The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; April 14.

5) 2007. Faith-Based Initiatives and the U.S. Supreme Court case of Hein v. Freedom From Religion (06-157); on behalf of United Christian Ministries at Kent State University; February 13.

6) 2007. Guest Lecturer in Workshop. IX Summer Law School in Human Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in an Age of Globalization; sponsored (and travel expenses fully funded) by the Human Rights Centre and the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; July 16, 17 and 18.

7) 2005. The Supreme Court in Transition: How the Departure of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from the Court May Affect the Interpretation of the Constitution; Constitution Day lecture; co-sponsored by the Bliss Institute and Constitutional Center of University of Akron Law School, Akron, Ohio; September 22.

8) 2005. Considering a Career in Civil/Criminal Defense; The University of Akron Pre-Law Club, Student Center, The University of Akron; April 6.

9) 2000. Original Intent – What Our Founding Fathers Really Meant!!!; The Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution, Papa John’s Restaurant, Akron, Ohio; September 16.

10) 1997. Junior Leadership Akron Justice Day, sponsored by The University of Akron School of Law; February 8.

Invited Teaching Presentations and Faculty Brown Bags

1) 2012. New Federalism and Health Care Policy in the Roberts Court; Department of Political Science Brown Bag Series; February 29.

2) 2012. Current Issues before the U.S. Supreme Court. WPNI Guest Lecture (Department of Political Science Washington, D.C. program); Jan. 4.

3) 2011. Current Issues before the U.S. Supreme Court. WPNI Guest Lecture (Department of Political Science Washington, D.C. program); Jan. 5.

4) 2010. The Constitutional Significance of Innocence. Proseminar, Criminal Justice Issues Guest Lecture, Dr. Mark Colvin)(Department of Political Science, Kent State University); Nov. 9.

5) 2010. Judicial Architecture and Comparative Courts. 2010 Mayor’s Court Clerks of Ohio Professional Development Program; sponsored by The Center for Public Administration and Public Policy; April 28.

6) 2010. The U.S. Supreme Court Current Term and Justice Sotomayor. WPNI Guest Lecture (Department of Political Science Washington, D.C. program); Jan. 13.

7) 2009. Transnational Networks, Courts, & the Right to Education; Department of Political Science Brown Bag Series; February 11.

In addition to academic conferences, I regularly speak on various topics surrounding law and politics. These presentations have ranged from speaking at universities on constitution day to political groups on the Supreme Court. For an abbreviated list of speaking engagements I have participated in, please see below.

Expertise

Constitutional Law

Civil Rights and Liberties

Federalism

Law and Courts

Terrorism

Criminal Justice

American Government

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