In 1996, Professor Lassiter commented on the draft Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine as part of a project undertaken by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Since 1994, he has lectured and written annual updates on Supreme Court litigation for the Federal Public and Community Defenders Program, and has also led discussions at bench-bar conferences on improving the judicial process for the State Bar of Ohio since 1992.

Locally, Professor Lassiter served as a member of the Hamilton County Criminal Justice Task Force which studied and suggested legal reforms; Professor Lassiter served as the Task Force's Trial Committee chair in 1992. Beginning in 1994, Professor Lassiter served on the Cincinnati Bar Association's Law Day Committee as the script writer for a two-hour televised discussion on constitutional issues of interest to high school students. The program received second place in the ABA 1996 Outstanding Law Day Activities Award competition when Professor Lassiter became chair of the Committee. In 1997, Professor Lassiter led a discussion on professional ethics in the CBA's Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers, and also lectured on "The Death Penalty in the United States: Historically and Today" at a symposium sponsored by the College of Law. Professor Lassiter was a consultant for "The Affair," a joint HBO - BBC production concerning the U.S. military's use of the death penalty for interracial rape during World War II.

Professor Lassiter received the UC College of Law Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2008, 2006, and 1993. He was also named to UC’s inaugural class of the Academy of Fellows for Teaching & Learning in 2007.

Finally, in his most exciting and professionally rewarding endeavor, Professor Lassiter happily coached, Christo's Angels, the law women's softball team to the All University Intramural Championship in 2000.

Download a copy of Professor Lassiter's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Consent to Search by Ignorant People, 39 Texas Tech Law Review 1171 (2007).

 Lex Sportiva: Thoughts Toward a Criminal Law of Competitive Contact Sports, 22 St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 35 (Summer 2007) (earlier draft originally published in Forum on Public Policy (online edition 2006).

Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Capital University Law Review 79 (1998).

Cameras and the Infusion of Political Bias Into the Courtroom, 5 International Journal of Law and Technology 28 (Oxford University Press) (1997) .

Cyberspace and the Battle for First Amendment Freedoms, 30 Law/Technology 27 (1997).

A Call to the Arts: Exploring New Means of Jurisprudential Expression, 14 Cardozo Journal of Art and Entertainment Law 387 (1996).

The New Race Cases and The Politics of Public Policy, 12 Journal of Law and Politics 411 (1996).

TV or Not TV - That is the Question?, 86 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 928 (1996).

The O.J. Simpson Verdict: A Lesson in Black and White, 1 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 69 (1996).

The Stop and Frisk of Criminal Street Gang Members, 14 National Black Law Journal 1 (1995).

Presentations

“Ignorance, Deception and the Constitution,” Texas Tech Law Review Symposium; Lubbock, Texas (2007).

“Jurisprudence of Criminal Law and Sports Law,” Oxford University Roundtable on Criminal Law; Oxford, England (2006)

“Cameras in the Courtroom and the Politicalization of Justice,” St. Mary’s University School of Law Rosenfeld Lecture; San Antonio, Texas (2002).