Christopher B. McNeil

Legal Writing Professor

Ph: 614-236-6582 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 582 | cmcneil@iwaynet.net

Chris McNeil (BGS ’78; JD ’81, Univ. of Kansas) teaches administrative law and legal reasoning, research and writing at Capital University Law School. He also hears cases for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the Ohio Department of Mental Health, the Ohio Department of Transportation, the Ohio Department of Public Safety, the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and the boards that regulate the professions of nursing, dentistry, engineering, and surveying. He holds a Master’s degree in Judicial Studies (2004), and is a doctoral candidate in Judicial Studies from the University of Nevada – Reno. He is a former Deputy Public Defender (Junction City, Kansas), a non-IV-D Child Support Enforcement Attorney for the State of Kansas, and between 1988 and 1994 served as an Assistant Ohio Attorney General in the Business and Government Regulations Section (now Executive Agencies), where he served as lead AAG for the BMV. He has written extensively on due process in agency proceedings, most recently in “Shifts in Policy and Power: Calculating the Consequences of Increased Prosecutorial Power and Reduced Judicial Authority in Post 9/11 America,” 15 Widener Law Journal 109 (2005), and “The Marginal Utility of Consolidated Agency Hearings in Ohio: A Due Process Analysis from an Economic Perspective, 32 Ohio Northern University Law Review 127 (2006). He is a former Chair of the Administrative Law Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association, a former member of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges, and a current member of the faculty of the National Judicial College, in Reno, Nevada.