The Ohio State Constitution

STEVEN H. STEINGLASS is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he taught from 1980 to 2011 and was Dean from 1996 to 2005. Most recently, he has been teaching state constitutional law at Cleveland-Marshall and at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. From 2013 to 2017, he was Senior Policy Advisor for the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, and since 2018 he has been Course Planner for the annual Ohio State Bar Association program on The Importance of the Ohio Constitution. He received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and his law degree from the Columbia Law School. Dean Steinglass has had visiting appointments at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Widener University School of Law, St. Louis University School of Law, and the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has written law review articles and book chapters about state courts and federal civil rights litigation, aswell as a two-volume treatise, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Thomson Reuters). He has argued two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. GINO J. SCARSELLI is an attorney in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1993 and holds a master's degree in Philosophy from Ohio State University. He has served as law clerk for Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. He currently writes on consumer financial protection laws for Matthew Bender, and he is a volunteer attorney at The Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation & Outreach (OCSILiO).

The Ohio State Constitution is the long-awaited, thoroughly updated edition of the most comprehensive volume on the history and development of the Constitution of the State of Ohio. From 2004 to 2021, it covers 16 constitutional amendments, over 100 Ohio Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Ohio constitution, and discusses key updates to the constitution by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission that operated between 2013 and 2017.

Series Foreword by Lawrence Friedman