Visiting Professors Named for 2007-08

September 13, 2007

Micah L. Berman, executive director of the Tobacco Public Policy Center at Capital University Law School, has been named a visiting professor this academic year. Berman will be teaching Torts and Public Health Law. Prior to joining the Center in February 2005, Berman served as political director for the Fingerhut for U.S. Senate campaign and as a litigation associate with the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP.  He was previously a trial attorney with the National Criminal Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

Visiting Professor of Law Howard E. Katz has been an associate professor at Charlotte School of Law since August 2006. Professor Katz has an extensive and varied background as a law professor, director of strategic planning and policy, and prolific lecturer on topics such as urban development, business ethics, and socially responsible investing. He has been a visiting professor at Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law and the Senior Fellow at the American Architectural Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he recently coordinated content for the National Summit on School Design. From 1998 to 2004, Professor Katz served as Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Treasurer’s office where he oversaw a half-billion dollar fixed-income investment portfolio and insured the implementation of the treasurer’s reform agenda. Professor Katz has taught at several law schools, including George Washington, Tulane, Pittsburgh and Howard, and in two M.B.A. programs.

Since 2003, Michael L. Rich has been an associate in the Cincinnati, Ohio office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP, where, among other things, he worked on a multi-million dollar civil False Claims Act trial, represented a county government in a civil rights class action lawsuit, and appeared before the Ohio Elections Commission on behalf of a candidate for U.S. Congress.  Professor Rich is also a former law clerk to The Hon. Susan J. Dlott of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and a former associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York, NY.