Professor Stan Darling Receives OSBA Legal Educator Award

May 15, 2008

Professor of Law Stanton G. Darling II is the 2008 recipient of the Ohio State Bar Association Legal Education Committee Award. The award is given to the law teacher who has contributed the most to Ohio law and the Ohio bar. Darling was presented with the award May 15, 2008, at the OSBA Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

Darling, one of Ohio’s leading experts on civil procedure and a member of the Capital University Law School faculty since 1981, is co-author of Ohio Civil Practice, a comprehensive treatise on the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, which is updated and supplemented annually. The text is used statewide at law schools and in law practices.

For seven years, Darling served as counsel for the Rules of Civil Procedure to the Supreme Court of Ohio Rules Advisory Committee. During this time, he spent well over 1,000 hours drafting memos and rules to assist the Committee and the Court in this area of the law.

In the 1980s, Darling was an expert resource for the Ohio Legislature on civil justice issues. He was special counsel to the Select Committee on the Civil Justice System of the Ohio House of Representatives, and later, was advisor to the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives on tort and civil justice matters.

Darling previously taught at the law schools at Stanford, Santa Clara, University of San Francisco, University of the Pacific, and University of California-Davis. He has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College, the Ohio Judicial College and the Michigan Judicial Institute. Over his 26 years of teaching at Capital, he has made numerous CLE presentations on Ohio Civil Practice and Procedure, Negligence Law and Products Liability for the OSBA, CBA and groups such as the IRS and Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers. He instructs in and has prepared his own course materials for Torts, Civil Procedure and Products Liability. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from The Ohio State University.