Margaret M. Cordray
Ph: 614-236-6674 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 621 | pcordray@law.capital.edu
Professor Margaret Cordray joined Capital in 1992. She currently teaches Contracts, Evidence, and a seminar on the United States Supreme Court. Since entering teaching, Professor Cordray has published on a wide variety of topics. Most recently, she has written a series of articles on the Supreme Court, focusing mainly on how the Justices select the cases that the Court will review. Courts, scholars, and journalists have relied on Professor Cordray’s scholarship in writing their own materials.
Career Highlights
- Law Clerk to The Hon. Kenneth W. Starr, Circuit Judge, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Associate, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (Washington, D.C.), with focus on appellate practice
- Attorney, The Ohio State University Office of Legal Affairs, with a focus on contract law
- Selected as Capital’s "Teacher of the Year" in 1997; voted "Best Professor" by upperclass students in the 1997-1998 academic year; voted "Best Professor" by first year students in the 1992-1993 academic year
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Selected Publications
- Setting the Social Agenda: Deciding to Review High-Profile Cases at the Supreme Court, forthcoming in Kan. L. Rev. (2009) (with Richard Cordray)
- Strategy in the Supreme Court: The Relationship Between Certiorari and the Merits, 69 Ohio St. L.J. 1 (2008) (with Richard Cordray)
- The Philosophy of Certiorari: Jurisprudential Considerations in Supreme Court Case Selection, 82 Wash. U. L.Q. 389 (2004) (with Richard Cordray)
- The Supreme Court's Plenary Docket, 58 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 737 (2001) (with Richard Cordray)
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Courses
- Contracts I & II
- Evidence
- Supreme Court
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Education
- B.C.L., Oxford University, England
- J.D., Order of the Coif, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley
- B.A, summa cum laude, University of the Pacific
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