Professor Marc Spindelman of The Ohio State University Moritz School of Law, will give a public lecture titled The Law and Domestic Partner Benefits. The lecture will be held Thursday, Oct. 9 at 3 p.m. in Room 151 at The University of Akron School of Law. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
Professor Spindelman is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. After law school, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and was an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City. After leaving Wall Street, he was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School, taught as a Visiting Instructor at the University of Michigan Law School, and spent two years as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. While a Greenwall Fellow, Professor Spindelman was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, a Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Research Fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Since joining the faculty at the Moritz College of Law, Professor Spindelman has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and at the University of Michigan Law School. His recent scholarship focuses on certain problems of inequality, chiefly in the context of sex and death. He regularly teaches courses on Family Law, Bioethics and Public Health Ethics, Health Law, and Sexual Violence.
The lecture is co-sponsored by Akron Law and the Akron-AAUP.
