January 27, 2021
Verna Williams, UC College of Law Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, has been appointed to a new nine-member task force in Cincinnati.
February 8, 2021
A book, opera and film are all helping to shed light on the work done by the Ohio Innocence Project at UC Law. Outside of Cincinnati, the OIP is fast becoming a model for innocence projects around the world.
February 4, 2021
Alice McCollum, the first woman, and first Black woman, elected to the Dayton Municipal Court, reflects on 42 years of service in the legal profession.
February 17, 2021
Cincinnati Law dean Verna Williams discusses the implications of educational segregation on Black students and students of color.
February 9, 2021
Gillispie was freed thanks to UC's Ohio Innocence Project in December 2011 after serving 20 years in prison for rapes he did not do.
March 22, 2021
An appeals court granted a new trial for two men who spent the last 14 years in prison for the shooting of two people and the attempted shooting of a Cleveland police officer. The unanimous decision issued by the 8th District Court of Appeals found that Cleveland police and Cuyahoga County prosecutors denied Kenny Phillips and Michael Sutton a fair trial by failing to tell the men’s defense attorneys that officers gave conflicting statements about the shootings, and not calling them testify at trial. The Ohio Innocence Project represents Sutton. Mark Godsey, director of the Cincinnati-based Ohio Innocence Project, said that attorneys for the men would ask the courts to release the men on bond immediately pending their new trial.
November 30, 2020
University of Cincinnati College of Law alumnus Judge Robert S. Marx was pivotal in launching the Disabled Veterans of America organization, which celebrates 100 years this year. The UC Law Library is named after Marx.
December 2, 2020
The city of Cleveland will pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of aggravated murder and spent 11 years in prison before he was freed with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project $4.85 million to settle a lawsuit he filed against two city homicide detectives, reports U.S. News & World Report.
December 7, 2020
University of Cincinnati College of Law graduates who took the summer and fall bar exam in Ohio outperformed the state average, reports Crain’s Cleveland Business.
November 25, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden will be the first U.S. president since University of Cincinnati College of Law alumnus William Howard Taft to graduate from a law school outside the nation’s top 14 ranked law schools, reports the American Bar Association Journal.