UC College Of Law Welcomes Class Of 2006

The University of Cincinnati College of Law officially welcomed in the Class of 2006 with the startup of classes on Tuesday, Aug. 19.

The Class of 2006 is another strong incoming class.

This class is among the most qualified in the college's history. The Class of 2006 was selected from a pool of 1,177 applicants, the largest applicant pool in the last seven years. It features a median undergraduate grade point average of 3.51 and matches last year's median LSAT test score of 160 (out of a possible 180), which was the highest since 1997.

"This continues a run of strong classes we are enjoying," says Al Watson, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid. "The qualifications of this class were almost identical to last year's outstanding class."

Approximately 18 percent of the class are students of color, in line with numbers of recent UC law classes. In recent years, the college has been among the national leaders in overall minority enrollment.

The college also welcomes four new full-time faculty members this year. They include:

• Emily Ming-Sue Houh, who joins the College of Law faculty after being on the faculty at Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. Emily will teach courses in contracts, commercial law, gender and the law, and race and the law/critical race theory.
• Mark Godsey, who comes to UC from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, where he won the award for teaching excellence in 2003. He will teach in the criminal law area. Godsey served as a Faculty Adviser to the Kentucky Innocence Project at Chase, and will serve as Faculty Director to the Ohio Innocence Project and the Center for Law and Justice, (formerly the Urban Justice Institute) here.
• Chris Bryant, who was an assistant professor of law at The William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At UNLV, Bryant was voted the Law Professor of the Year in 2001-02. Chris's teaching interests include Constitutional Law, American Legal History and Legislative Process. 
• Adam Feibelman, who joins UC after completing his second year as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.  Feibelman's primary teaching and research interests include contracts, corporate and consumer bankruptcy, commercial law and the regulation of financial institutions. 

This is the 171st year for the UC College of Law, the fourth-oldest continually operated law school in the United States. The school year continues through the college's Hooding Ceremony May 15, 2004.