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Deborah J. Merritt
John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law; Courtesy Professor of Sociology; Courtesy Professor of Public Policy and Management, and Associate Faculty Member in Women's Studies
Moritz College of Law
Columbus, OH 43210
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Education:
- B.A., Harvard University, History, 1977 (summa cum laude)
- J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1980
Bio:
Professor Merritt has been a law teacher for twenty-six years. She has a national reputation as a legal scholar and is a leading voice on trends in legal education. During the last two years, she has won four different teaching awards from her law school and university. In May 2010, the law school's graduating class chose Merritt as their "Outstanding Professor."
Merritt graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1977 and from Columbia Law School in 1980. While at Columbia, she was Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review and won the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize.
After graduation, Professor Merritt clerked for Judge (now Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. She then practiced civil litigation in Atlanta, Georgia, and joined the University of Illinois law faculty in 1985. She accepted the Drinko Chair at Ohio State's Moritz College of Law in 1995.
Professor Merritt teaches Evidence, Law and Psychology, Legal Writing, and the Criminal Defense Clinic. She is well known for her scholarship on a wide range of public policy issues.
Merritt drew upon her knowledge of psychology and learning theory to coauthor the "Learning Evidence" text. The book builds on cognitive science research to offer students the best mix of explanatory text, examples, and analyses.
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