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The Current: Equal Rights and the Supreme Court

A Community Conversation with Legal Scholar Marc Spindelman

Oyez! Oyez! Join us for a community conversation around the Supreme Court's major rulings during the '23-'24 term, facilitated by Marc Spindelman, the Isadore & Ida Topper Professor of Law at OSU.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Join us for a community conversation about some of the major rulings made by the Supreme Court during the '23-'24 term, facilitated by Marc Spindelman, the Isadore & Ida Topper Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

The Supreme Court has issued multiple rulings throughout the 2023-2024 term that will significantly impact Americans' civil rights. Marc Spindelman, the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law at The OSU Moritz College of Law, will facilitate a community conversation around some of the blockbuster rulings, break down the major decisions made by the Court, and help us reflect on how those decisions will shape American politics and life moving forward.

Presenter Biography

Marc Spindelman, a nationally recognized legal scholar in multiple legal fields, is the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law at Moritz. He regularly teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law Theory, Advanced Family Law, Critical Theory/Critical Lawyering, Social Justice and the Law, and Sexual Violence and the Law. Other courses he has recently taught include The Lawyer in the Community and a distinctively innovative course called The Rule of Law in the Age of Legal Change. 

In addition to teaching at Ohio State, Professor Spindelman been a visiting professor at Michigan Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. He’s also been a faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Professor Spindelman’s scholarship broadly focuses on questions of sexuality, reproduction, death, and love as they intersect law, society, and culture. His work has been published in a range of law reviews, including Michigan Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, and the Georgetown Law Journal Online. In addition to his current and recent work in critical theory and on sex equality under law, including both LGBTQIA+ rights and reproductive justice, he is the co-author of a leading family law casebook published by Foundation University Press. He has also been quoted widely in the local, national, and international press. 

Before joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor Spindelman was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. While a Greenwall Fellow, in addition to teaching at Georgetown’s law school and Johns Hopkins’ school of public health, he was a research fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Before that, he was also a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, a law clerk for Judge Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and an associate at a Wall Street law firm.  

Since 2021, Professor Spindelman has served as co-editor of JOTWELL’s Equality Section. 

Follow Marc's work and writing here.

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