Michael Distelhorst
Professor of Law
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Ph: 614-236-6553 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 553 | mdistelhorst@law.capital.edu
Professor Distelhorst teaches Contract Law, Secured Transactions, and Payment Systems, and previously taught Bankruptcy and Professional Responsibility in the Law School, and Business Ethics and Leadership/Followership Seminar in the MBA Program of the School of Management. Before coming to Capital, Professor Distelhorst taught accounting and finance and practiced both general and business law. Today, Professor Distelhorst speaks and publishes in his special interest areas of business and legal ethics and regularly advises corporations in the area corporate ethics and compliance programs. Professor Distelhorst is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is also a member of the Ohio State Bar Foundation and the Columbus Bar Foundation.
Career Highlights
- Life Fellow American Bar Foundation
- Professor of the Year Award Nine Years
- Special Recognition Award,
Office of the Disciplinary Counsel,
The Supreme Court of Ohio
- Director, American Legal Studies in Japan Program in Tokyo
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Selected Publications
- Three Virtue Myths [of the Legal Profession], 21 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES FORUM 283 (1997)
- Justice as a Framework for Business Ethics, With Images Drawn from Traditional Japanese Architecture, 6 HOME RULE & CIVIL SOCIETY 53 (Journal of Chuo Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan (1995)
- Judging Ourselves as Heirs to the Realist Insight: The Role of Ethics as a Bridge Between Law and Life, 60 UNIV. CINN. LAW REV. 43 (1991)
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Courses
- Contracts I
- Contracts II
- Secured Transactions
- Payment Systems
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Education
- J.D., summa cum laude, Capital University Law School
- B.S. magna cum laude,
Capital University
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