Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Co-Interim Dean & Legal Writing Professor
- JDThe Ohio State University College of Law
- BAUniversity of Notre Dame
Co‑Interim Dean Carolyn Broering‑Jacobs has been a valued member of the CSU College of Law faculty since 2000 and most recently served as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs. A leader in legal writing and advocacy education, she previously served as Director of Legal Writing and is the longtime faculty advisor for the College’s award‑winning Moot Court Program, leading numerous teams to national honors. She is unique in legal academia for the breadth of her teaching experience, having taught first‑year legal writing, led the law school as Director of Legal Writing, taught in both the Civil Litigation and Transactional Law Clinics, regularly taught Torts, and designed and taught numerous upper‑level writing and advocacy courses. Broering‑Jacobs has played a central role in curricular and co‑curricular innovation, developing the College’s first approved online course in 2014 and helping establish the framework for future online offerings. She has been a key leader in strategic planning, accreditation reviews, and enrollment growth initiatives, and in 2018 received CSU’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence. Her scholarship includes co‑authoring Ohio Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press, 2015), and she has published and presented widely on legal writing, legal pedagogy, and strategies to foster grit and resilience in law students.
Brian E. Ray
Co-Interim Dean, Leon M. & Gloria Plevin Professor of Law; Director, Center for Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection
- BAUniveristy of Notre DameProgram of Liberal Studies and Japanese Studies1993
- MAUniversity of PennsylvaniaEast Asian Languages and Culture1998
- JDThe Ohio State University2001
Co-Interim Dean Brian Ray started his teaching career at Cleveland State University College of Law in 2006 and most recently served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Online Programs. He helped to launch the Law College’s online J.D. program, which has nearly tripled first-year enrollment in the part-time program. His research focuses on cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI law and policy. He has been the principal investigator and part of interdisciplinary research teams that have received over $4.5 million for projects related to cybersecurity and data privacy education, surveillance technologies, and pandemic preparation and response. He co-founded and directs the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection and created and directs the online Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity & Data Privacy. He serves on the CyberOhio Advisory Board, which drafted Ohio’s first-in-the-nation incentive-based cybersecurity law and served on the Ohio Attorney General Facial Recognition Task Force. He also is expert in comparative constitutional law and spent 2013 as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa conducting research for his book Engaging with Social Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).