Dean Solimine served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice in Dayton, Ohio from 1981 to 1984. He then spent two years as a litigation associate at the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in their Dayton, Ohio office. Professor Solimine came to the University of Cincinnati as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1986 and joined the faculty in 1987. Professor Solimine serves as counselor for the Potter Stewart Inn of Court, and served as counsel (i.e., the reporter) for the Civil Rules Subcommittee of the Rules Advisory Committee for the Ohio Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997.

In addition, Dean Solimine was editor of the newsletter of the Section of Litigation of the Ohio State Bar Association from 1991 to 1997 and served as an academic advisor to the Access & Quality Task Force of the Ohio Courts Futures Commission from 1997 to 1999. Presently he serves on the Board of Academic Advisors for The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, the Committee of Law Professors for Citizens for Independent Courts, and the DaVinci University Club Scholarship Committee.

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

Publications

Books

Cases and Materials on Appellate Practice and Procedure (West Group, 2d ed., 2005) (with Prof. Emeritus Robert J. Martineau, Prof. Kent Sinclair, and Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland).

4 Anderson's Ohio Civil Practice (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis 2003) (with Prof. Emeritus Stanley Harper).

5 Anderson's Ohio Civil Practice (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis 2003).

Ohio Civil Rules Practice (LexisNexis Group, 3d ed. 2003)(with John W. McCormack).

Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Co. 1999) (with James L. Walker).

Book Chapters

The Selection of Judges in Ohio, in The History of Ohio Law, 211 (Ohio University Press, 2004) (Michael Les Benedict & John Winkler, eds.) (with Richard B. Saphire).

Articles

Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Arizona L. Rev.___ (forthcoming 2006)

The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, ___ Wisconsin L.Rev.___ (forthcoming 2005)(with Rafael Gely)

Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Indiana L.Rev.___ (forthcoming 2005)(symposium)

The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005) (symposium)

Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 1331 (2005) (symposium)

Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004) (symposium)

Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev.1463 (2003) (reviewing John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Court's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)).

Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert).

Recalibrating Justifiability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. (2003) (symposium).

The Law and Economics of Conflict of Laws, 4 Am. Law & Eco. Rev. 208 (2002) (reviewing Michael J. Whincop & Mary Keyes, Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws (2001)).

Building a Better Jury: Reforming Jury Pool Selection in Ohio, 6 Ohio Law. 6 (Sept./Oct. 2003) (with Rebecca Klein).

Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the 21st Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002) (symposium).

The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002) (symposium)

Judicial Federalism After Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 JUSTICE SYS. J. 45 (2002) (symposium).

Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002) (symposium).

Jorge Carro, Scholar, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 5 (2002).

The Causes and Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution, 1 Election L.J. 579 (2002) (reviewing Gary W. Cox & Jonathan N. Katz, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reappointment Revolution (2002)).

Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George).

Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals Under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines).

The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998).