Professor Marc Spindelman regularly teaches at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he is the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law.
After graduating from Michigan’s law school, Professor Spindelman clerked for Judge Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in NYC.
After working at the firm, Spindelman was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Instructor at Michigan Law before undertaking a two-year stint as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. During that time, Professor Spindelman adjuncted at Georgetown’s law school and taught as a faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as a research fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Since joining the faculty at the Moritz College of Law, Professor Spindelman has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the Georgetown University Law Center.
Professor Spindelman’s writing focuses largely on questions of inequality as they intersect with law and culture, with a particular eye on sexuality, reproduction justice, death, and love. In addition to current and recent work focused on LGBTQIA+ rights and reproductive justice, he is the co-author of a leading casebook in Family Law and has published numerous articles. Information on the family law casebook and links to all his published writing are available on his webpage: www.marcspindelman.net.
Professor Spindelman has been regularly consulted by domestic and international press on a range of topics, including constitutional law, family law, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the law and ethics of death and dying.
In his teaching, Professor Spindelman strives to create an inclusive and intellectually stimulating space in which students can not only learn the law, but can also critically examine their roles as students and future lawyers, while growing as people.
He regularly teaches both traditional doctrinal courses, including Constitutional Law, Family Law, and Constitutional Law Theory, as well as discussion-based seminars including Critical Theory/Critical Lawyering, Sexual Violence and the Law, and Social Justice and the Law, a special seminar for first-year law students.
Other courses that Professor Spindelman has taught include The Lawyer in the Community, and an innovative course called The Rule of Law in the Age of Legal Change. In years past, he has also taught Advanced Family Law, Bioethics (including specially dedicated courses on assisted suicide and the right to die), Health Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Health Ethics, Health Law, and Sexual Violence and the Law.
