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Cincinnati, OH—To deepen the law school’s course offerings and enhance programming, the University of Cincinnati College of Law regularly invites visiting professors from across the country to teach at the school. This year’s visiting professors will offer courses in white collar crime, secured transactions, client counseling, family law, and gender and the law. Students will get the chance to learn from several outside experts.
Jenny Carroll.
Jenny Carroll will be serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching White Collar Crime in the fall, and Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure II in the spring.
Professor Carroll is well known to all who have participated in the Ohio Innocence Project. She has served as its Academic Director supervising law student work on behalf of clients claiming in federal or state courts that they have been wrongfully convicted. She graduated from Duke University and received her JD from the University of Texas School of Law. She was a Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Criminal Justice Clinic, earning her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.
Patrick D. Lane.
Patrick Lane joins the law school as a part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Clinical Law. He will teach Secured Transactions this fall and will be assisting with the Client Counseling course in spring.
Professor Lane, a UC Law graduate, received his BA from the University of Virginia. He practiced law with Dinsmore & Shohl for 15 years in the firm's litigation department before joining Procter & Gamble as Associate General Counsel, managing both intellectual property and general litigation. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Chase College of Law.
Qudsia Mirza
Qudsia Mirza will be serving as a Visiting Professor of Law, teaching Feminist Jurisprudence in the fall, followed by Family Law and Gender and the Law in the spring.
Professor Mirza has recently completed a year as Visiting Scholar at Washington and Lee University as the Frances Lewis Scholar in Residence. She received her LLB in England from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and her LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science in London. She taught law at the University of East London, and brings more than 16 years teaching experience to the College. Her scholarly focus is on women and Islam, having published broadly in this area. She has previously been a visitor at Albany Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.
Gary W. Spring
Gary Spring has been appointed visiting Associate Professor of Law, and will teach Legal Ethics and Employment law this fall, and Civil Procedure II in the spring.
Professor Spring spent last year as a visitor at Rutgers University, Newark, teaching Civil Procedure, Employment Law, and other employment law related subjects. He taught as an Adjunct Professor at Akron Law School for many years while practicing law in Akron, and has received outstanding teaching awards from both Akron and Rutgers. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University, and he clerked with Justice Paul Brown of the Ohio Supreme Court before taking up practice as a litigator with a large firm in Akron.
Contact Information:
Sherry English
513.556.0090
sherry.english@uc.edu
