Professor Bettman graduated with honors in 1977 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she was a winner of the Constitutional Law Prize and the first woman at UC Law to take first prize in Trial Advocacy. Professor Bettman was in the private practice of law until she became the first woman ever elected to the Ohio First District Court of Appeals in 1992. She served on that court from 1993-1999 and was an endorsed Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court in 1996. She has been a professor of law at UC since 1999.

Professor Bettman is a frequent speaker on tort reform, separation of powers, state constitutional law in Ohio, the Ohio Supreme Court and the election of judges. She writes a monthly newspaper column, Legally Speaking, which appears in City Beat, the American Israelite and the Cincinnati Herald. She also serves as an appeals consultant to lawyers throughout Ohio.

Download a copy of Professor Bettman's Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Publications

(Professor Bettman authored numerous opinions as an appellate judge, which are available online.)

The Legal Challenge of Prenatal Torts in Ohio, Ohio Trial, Summer/Fall 2006

Highlights of the Ohio Supreme Court June 2002-June 2003, 33 Capital Law Review No. 1 (2004)

Ohio Joins The New Judicial Federalism Movement: A Little To-ing And A Little Fro-ing, 51 Cleveland State Law Review 491 (2004)

Comity and the New Federalism Through the Lens of School Vouchers, 29 N.K.U L.Rev. No. 3 (2002)

Public Funds Should be Used for Public Schools, co-authored with John J. Gilligan. A criticism of the use of public funds for vouchers or for charter schools. Published in December 2000 in Primer, a New Ohio Institute Publication

Introduction, Symposium on Public Mistrust of the Law, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 801 (1998)

Identical Constitutional Language: What is a State Court to Do? The Ohio Case of State v. Robinette, 32 Akron L. Rev. 65 (1999)

The Judicial Perspective, Ohio Trial, Spring 1999

A View from the Other Side, Ohio Trial, Fall 1994

Wishing A Fond Farewell To Evidence Rule 601 (D), Ohio Trial, Spring 1990