Cleveland State University College of Law is the
law school
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...
, a
public
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research university
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in
Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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. The school traces its origins to Cleveland Law School (founded in 1897), which merged in 1946 with the John Marshall School of Law (founded in 1916) to become Cleveland-Marshall Law School. When the school affiliated with Cleveland State University in 1969, it became Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. In 2022, the university dropped Marshall's name from the school due to his history of owning slaves.
History
Cleveland Law School, founded in 1897, was Ohio's first evening law school and also the first to admit women.
[Mearns, Geoffrey S. "It's All About Women...Bar None!", ''Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal''. Vol. I No. 2, April, 2008.] John Marshall School of Law was established by Cleveland attorneys, and classes began in 1916 in the New Guardian Building on
Euclid Avenue. Following an affiliation with
Ohio Northern University
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(1917–1923), Marshall received authorization to confer degrees under its own name. In 1946, the two Cleveland schools merged to form Cleveland-Marshall Law School. From 1963 to 1967, C-M maintained a nominal relationship with
Baldwin–Wallace College
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. After regaining independent status, Cleveland-Marshall began its full-time legal education program. C-M became a state institution affiliated with Cleveland State University in 1969, becoming the Cleveland–Marshall College of Law, the largest law college in Ohio at the time. It was renamed to the Cleveland State University College of Law in 2022 due to Marshall's history of owning slaves.
CSU Law has a rich history of integrating women and minorities into the American legal field, including
Carl Stokes
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was ...
, the first
African-American
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mayor of a major city in the U.S., Mary Grossman, the first woman in Ohio elected to a Municipal Court Bench as well as one of the first female members of the
American Bar Association
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, Genevieve Cline, the first woman appointed to the U.S. federal bench, and Lillian Walker Burke, the first
African-American
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female judge in Ohio.
Louis Stokes, older brother of Carl and Ohio's first elected African American to the House of Representatives. Louis Stokes also argued the landmark United States Supreme Court case of ''
Terry v. Ohio
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'' first in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, then the United States Supreme Court.
Academics
In addition to the
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
(J.D.) and the
Master of Laws
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(L.L.M.) degrees, Cleveland-Marshall also offers dual degrees, which include a
J.D./M.B.A.(Master of Business Administration), a J.D./M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration), a J.D./M.U.P.D.D. (Master of Urban Planning, Design and Development), a J.D./M.A.E.S. (Master of Arts in Environmental Studies), and a J.D./M.S.E.S. (Master of Science in Environmental Science) degree program.
Rankings
In 2016 ''
U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Cleveland-Marshall's full-time J.D. program at 106. In 2014 Cleveland-Marshall was ranked 115th (out of 203); its part-time
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
program was ranked 56th in the nation. Cleveland-Marshall was previously ranked 119th in 2013 and 135th in 2012.
According to the law professor blog ''The Faculty Lounge'', based on 2012 ABA data, only 48.9 percent of graduates obtained full-time, long term, bar admission required positions nine months after graduation, ranking 137th out of 197 law schools.
According to Cleveland–Marshall College of Law's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 44.7 percent of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.
83.6 percent of the Class of 2013 was employed in some capacity while 15.1 percent were unemployed nine months after graduation.
Ohio
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was the main employment destination for 2013 Cleveland–Marshall College of Law graduates, with 87.2 percent of employed 2013 graduates working in the state.
Law library
The law library is a selective depository library as part of the
Federal Depository Library Program
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under the Depository Library Act of 1962.
In addition to the standard legal reference works, its collections include substantial coverage of
constitutional law
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,
employment and labor law,
Jewish law
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,
Islamic law
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,
law careers,
legal research and writing,
Ohio law
The law of Ohio consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory, local and common law. The ''Ohio Revised Code'' forms the general statutory law.
Sources
The Constitution of Ohio is the foremost source of state l ...
and practice, and
urban law
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* Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas
* Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities
Urban may also refer to:
General
* Urban (name), a list of people ...
.
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The library also houses the materials from the ]Cuyahoga County
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Prosecutor
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's office relating to the prosecution of Sam Sheppard
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in the 1954 Marilyn Sheppard murder case. The collection comprises over 60 boxes of photographs, recordings, documents, and trial exhibits. The law school has cataloged and digitized the materials, many of which are available online.[
]
Notable alumni
Many notable judges, politicians, and business leaders have graduated from CSU Law. Tim Russert
Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press''. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Wa ...
graduated from Cleveland-Marshall in 1976 and became a television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press
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''. Carl Stokes
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was ...
, the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city, graduated from Cleveland-Marshall in 1956 and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1957. Frank G. Jackson
Frank George Jackson (born October 4, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 57th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 2006 to 2022. He was first elected on November 8, 2005, unseating incumbent Jane Campbell, and re-elected in 2 ...
, a former mayor of Cleveland, is also a graduate. Current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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, Marcia Fudge
Marcia Louise Fudge (born October 29, 1952) is an American attorney and politician serving as the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States secretary of housing and urban development since 2021. A member of the D ...
, graduated in 1983 and became the first alum to serve in a president's cabinet. Alan Miles Ruben, the Editor-in-Chief of the standard treatise “How Arbitration Works” who serves as Professor Emeritus Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, a Public university, public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to Cleveland Law School (founded in 1897), which merged in ...
and formerly served as Professor (1970 to 2003) earned a Guggenheim Fellowship
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and was a Fulbright Scholar
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(1993) and Advisory Professor of Law Fudan University
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in Shanghai, China
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who became Member of Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame with Bob Feller
Robert William Andrew Feller (November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Clevel ...
(Class of 1976) as he captained both the U.S. team at 1972 Olympics and 1971 Pan-American games. Professor Ruben also made $500,000 commitment to create the Alan Miles Ruben and Betty Willis Ruben Endowed Professorship at the then-Cleveland–Marshall College of Law.
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