Dean Tomain received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from The George Washington University. He practiced general litigation in New Jersey before beginning his teaching career at Drake University School of Law.  He joined the UC Law faculty in 1987, served as visiting professor at the University of Texas Law School, and served as dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law for 15 years.  He has also served as: distinguished visiting energy professor, Vermont Law School;visiting scholar, University of Notre Dame; visiting fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University; and Fulbright senior specialist in law in Cambodia.

Dean Tomain serves on a number of civic organizations. He is chair of the board of the KnowledgeWorks Education Foundation. He is the founder and principal of the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession; board member of the Ohio State Bar Foundation; delegate to the Ohio State Bar Association; and is actively involved with the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

He has written extensively in the energy law field and his publications include: Regulatory Law and Policy (3rd ed.2003 with Shapiro); Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century (2000 with Hickey, Kelly, Mansfield, and Zillman); and, Nuclear Power Transformation (1987).  A full list of publications is available on his curriculum vitae.

Download a copy of Dean Tomain's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Books

Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy).

Regulatory Law and Policy (LexisNexis Group, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney Shapiro).

Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century (Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 2000) (with Hicky, Kelly, Mansfield, and Zillman).

Book Chapters

The iUtility, in The New Environmentalism (forthcoming Cambridge University Press).

Dirty Energy Policy, in Climate Change and the Neoliberal Model (forthcoming MIT Press).

Rethinking Energy Law, in The Global Warming Reader (forthcoming Carolina Academic Press).

Energy and Natural Resources Law, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (2004).

Whither Natural Monopoly: The Case of Electricity, in, The End of a Natural Monopoly: Deregulation and Competition in the Electric Power Industry (Peter Z. Grossman & Daniel H. Coles, eds.) (2003).

Electric Industry Restructuring. Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, in Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law - Year-in-Review (ABA, 2002) (with Dowden).

Electric Industry Restructuring. Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, in Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law - Year-in-Review (ABA, 2001) (with Dowden, Lonian & Conner).

Articles

Building the iUtility, 146 Public Utilities Fortnightly ___ (August 2008). 

Junk Economics, 92 Georgetown L.J. 689 (2005) (reviewing Frank Ackerman & Lisa Henizerling, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (2004)

Introduction, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev.___ (2003) (symposium)

Between Law and Virtue, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 585 (2002) (with Barbara G. Watts) (symposium).

The Past and Future of Electricity Regulation, 32 Envtl. L. 435 (2002).

The Persistence of Natural Monopoly, 16 Nat. Resources & Env't 242 (2002).

The Associate Dean for Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (with Paul L. Caron) (symposium).

Augustine in Chicago, 51 J. Legal Educ. 610 (2001) (reviewing Mark Lilla, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001) & Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline (2001)).

A Code of One's Own, 15 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 153 (2001).

A Changing Landscape: Struggles for the Legal Profession Identified in Ohio Courts Futures Commission Report, Ohio Law. 8 (March/April 2001).

American Regulatory Policy: Have We Found the "Third Way"? networkindustries.gov.reg, 48 Kan. L. Rev. 829 (2000)