BIO

Professor Doron Kalir joined the Cleveland-Marshall faculty in 2012. He runs the Appellant Clinic and also teaches courses in legal ethics, federal courts, and contracts. As a Clinical Professor, together with his students, Professor Kalir has been representing under-privileged clients – both individual and organizations – before state, federal, and immigration courts at all levels, from a municipal court in Defiance, Ohio, to the United States Supreme Court. An Amicus Brief he co-authored was cited by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a seminal transgender-rights case.

Professor Kalir’s scholarship focuses on Supreme Court practice, statutory interpretation, federal courts, LGBTQ rights, and Jewish Law. His articles appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review Online; the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy; the Columbia Transnational Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review Online,  and others. He frequently appears in print media (including the New York Times, Business Insider, Newsweek, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Cleveland Jewish News), the Blogoshpere (Law.360, ACS Blog), on news-radio shows (XM POTUS Radio, WURD Radio), and lectures to popular audiences on a variety of subjects.

Professor Kalir is a volunteer lecturer at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation, where he frequently teaches a lesson on the Portion of the Week; he also serves the legal community by sitting on several Board of Directors, both local and national. Finally, Professor Kalir is also a member of the Academic Engagement Network, where he is on the Speakers’ Bureau.

Professor Kalir was born and raised in Israel, where he completed a full military service before attending law school at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He graduated with an LL.B (cum laude) and LL.M (summa cum laude), and then argued several cases successfully before the Israeli Supreme Court. He later studied and taught law at Columbia Law School, before working in private practice – mostly for Skadden, Arps – in New York, before moving to Cleveland.