‘Some Notes on the Constitution and Sexual Violence,’ Sept. 24

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture welcomes Ohio University Constitution Day speaker Marc Spindelman on “Some Notes on the Constitution and Sexual Violence” on Weds., Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. in Baker Theater.

Marc Spindelman, the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law at Ohio State University

Spindelman is the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

The Center’s Fall Reception follows the lecture, in the Baker Theater Lounge from 3 to 4 p.m. All are invited.

Professor Spindelman’s talk draws on his recent scholarship on inequality in relation to sex and sexuality. The U.S. Constitution has in recent years been heralded for the protections it affords sexuality and sexual freedom in the context of intimate relations, if not more generally. But how is the Constitution situated in relation to the realities of sexual violence and injury? What do those realities sometimes look like in life if not in law itself? What might it take, and what might it mean, for the Constitution to provide meaningful protection against sexual abuse?

The Constitution Day speaker is funded by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost at Ohio University.

Spindelman is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Judge (now Chief Judge) Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and was an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City. After leaving Wall Street, he was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School, taught as a Visiting Instructor at the University of Michigan Law School, and spent two years as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. Since joining the faculty at the Moritz College of Law, Professor Spindelman also has been a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center (Spring ’05), and at the University of Michigan Law School (AY ’07-’08). His recent scholarship focuses on certain problems of inequality, chiefly in the context of sex and death. He regularly teaches Family Law, Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Bioethics and Public Health Ethics, and Sexual Violence.