Daniel T. Kobil
Ph: 614-236-6675 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 623 | dkobil@law.capital.edu
Professor Dan Kobil joined Capital in 1987. He currently teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and comparative constitutional law. Since entering teaching, Professor Kobil has researched and published extensively on the subject of executive clemency, especially as it relates to the death penalty. He also writes on First Amendment Law. His work has been cited by courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and legal journals. He also is a frequent contributor to newspaper, television, and radio reports on constitutional issues.
Career Highlights
- Editor-in-Chief, The University of Toledo Law Review
- Law Clerk to The Hon. Albert J. Engel, Circuit Judge, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Litigation Associate, Baker and Hostetler (Columbus, OH.), with focus on commercial litigation and appellate practice
- ACLU Cooperating Attorney (counsel of record as amicus curiae in Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard, 523 U.S. 272 (1998))
- Invited to testify before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution [ Read Testimony ]
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| Selected Publications
- “Should Mercy Have a Place in Clemency Decisions?” in Mercy Forgiveness, and Clemency (Stanford University Press, 2007)
- “The Evolving Role of Clemency in Capital Cases” in America’s Experiment With Capital Punishment (Carolina Academic Press, 2003)
- Due Process in Death Penalty Commutations : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Clemency, 27 University of Richmond Law Review 201 (1993)
- The Quality of Mercy Strained : Wresting the Pardoning Power from the King, 69 University of Texas Law Review 569 (1991)
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Courses
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Comparative Constitutional Law
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Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, University of Toledo College of Law
- Bradshaw Fellow, University of Virginia (Graduate Program in English)
- B.A, summa cum laude, University of Toledo
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Interests
- Reading Fiction (favorite authors include V.S. Pritchett, Penelope Lively, J. R. R. Tolkien, Marilynne Robinson, Henry David Thoreau, and Kingsley Amis)
- Popular Music (favorite performers include Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Nirvana, Louis Armstrong, Richard Thompson, and, The Beatles)
- Films (some favorites include The Wizard of Oz, Love and Death, The Meaning of Life, Bladerunner, The Princess Bride, and Juno)
- Sports (skiing, tennis, hiking, bird-watching, and cycling)
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Dan Kobil was interviewed as an expert on clemency by KSRO radio, July 5, 2007. |
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