Dean Emeritus Tomain received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from The George Washington University. He practiced general litigation in New Jersey before beginning his teaching career at Drake University School of Law. He joined the UC Law faculty in 1987, served as visiting professor at The University of Texas Law School, and served as dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law for 15 years. He has also served as: distinguished visiting energy professor, Vermont Law School;visiting scholar, University of Notre Dame; visiting fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University; and Fulbright senior specialist in law in Cambodia.
Dean Tomain serves on a number of civic organizations. He is chair of the board of the KnowledgeWorks Education Foundation. He is the founder and principal of the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession; board member of the Ohio State Bar Foundation; delegate to the Ohio State Bar Association; and is actively involved with the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
He has written extensively in the energy law field and his publications include: Regulatory Law and Policy (3rd ed.2003 with Shapiro); Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century (2000 with Hickey, Kelly, Mansfield, and Zillman); and, Nuclear Power Transformation (1987).
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Joe’s article, The Dominant Model of United States Energy Policy, 61 U. Colo. L. Rev. 355 (1990), was cited in Lincoln Davies, Energy Policy Today and Tomorrow - Toward Sustainability? 29 J. Land Resources & Envtl. L. 71 (2009). His book, Regulatory Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney Shapiro), was cited in Sidney Shapiro, Ruth Ruttenberg, & Paul Leigh, The Social Costs of Dangerous Products: An Empirical Investigation, 18 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 775 (2009).
Joe received the 2009 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding research and scholarly achievement by a member of the UC Law faculty. His book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), was cited in Trevor D. Stiles, Renewable Resources and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 4 Envt'l & Energy L. & Pol'y J. 33 (2009).
He has recently published:
Two of Joe’s publications were cited:
In addition, Dean Tomain participated in the Greening the Grid Conference at Lewis & Clark School of law and has submitted a law review article to be published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review entitled Steel in the Ground: Building the iUtility.
During the summer, Dean Tomain Served as an ABA Site Inspector for the summer program hosted by the University of San Diego in Florence, Italy. Dean Tomain, as part of the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession, also taught a great books seminar for the alumni and friends of the Widener School of Law entitled Law, Culture, & Society.
Dean Tomain also served as Reporter for the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Standards Review Committee as well as chairing the annual and regular meeting of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation.
Joe received the 2009 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding research and scholarly achievement by a member of the UC Law faculty. His book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), was cited in Trevor D. Stiles, Renewable Resources and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 4 Envt'l & Energy L. & Pol'y J. 33 (2009).
Two of Joe’s publications were cited:
Joe’s article, Smart Energy Paths: How Willie Nelson Saved the Planet, 36 Cumb. L. Rev. 417 (2006), was cited in Roberta F. Mann & Mona L. Hymel, Moonshine to Motorfuel: Tax Incentives for Fuel Ethanol, 19 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 43 (2008).
Dean Tomain submitted his article Narrating Justice to the University of Cincinnati Law Review.
Additionally, Dean Tomain attended the American Law Institute Member Consultative Group meeting on Non-Profit Organizations as well as the Weathering the Storm meeting as the Board member of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
Dean Tomain served as commentator to Professor Jonathan Adler at the Federalist Society meeting and served as Reporter to the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Dean Tomain
Dean Tomain's book Creon's Ghost: Law, Justice and the Humanities has been published by Oxford University Press. Dean Tomain attended the Scholars’ Meeting of the Center for Progressive Reform.
Dean Tomain was appointed the Reporter for the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The Standards Review Committee is charged with the responsibility of reviewing of reviewing all of the standards and procedures for law school accreditation. The project is expected to last 2-3 years and will culminate in public hearings and a vote by ABA House of Delegates.
Energy Law, co-authored with Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, has been translated into Chinese and has been published in Beijing.
Dean Tomain chaired the Programs and Grants Committee of the Ohio State Bar Foundation.
He also served as Chair of the ABA Site Inspection Visit for Elon University School of Law. Dean Tomain has signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish his next book Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change.
Joe presented Law and the Humanities: The Conflict Between Man’s Law and Higher Law at The Lawyers' Club of Cincinnati Holiday CLE Party at the Phoenix.
Joe's book, Creon's Ghost: The Conflict between Man's Law and the Higher Law, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2009. He was a panelist on New Insights Into and Scholarship About the Goals and Responsibilities of Legal Education at the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.
Joe served as Chair of the ABA Site Visit Summer Abroad Program for Florida Coastal Law School in Clermon-Ferrand, France. He taught Law, Justice and Culture I and II at the Villa Buonriposo in Tuscany, Italy.
Joe's article, Rethinking Reform of Electricity Markets, 40 Wake Forest L. Rev. 497 (2005) (with Sidney A Shapiro), and his book, Regulatory Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis Group, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney Shapiro), were cited in Robert L. Glicksman, A Collective Action Perspective on Ceiling Preemption by Federal Environmental Regulation: The Case of Global Climate Change, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 579 (2008).
Joe organized and convened the Law & Literature Symposium: Law, Narration, and the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph. He presented Perplexity: Narrative and Narration at the sympsoium. The papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.
Joe submitted a chapter, Dirty Energy Policy, for the forthcoming book Climate Change and the Neoliberal Model (MIT Press). He posted Smart Energy Path: How Willie Nelson Saved the Planet, 36 Cumb. L. Rev. 417 (2006) on SSRN.
Joe participated in the following events at Dennison University:Joe was a facilitator at the Advanced Justice Institute Seminar on Law & Literature in Granville, OH. His portrait was completed and placed on permanent display next to the portraits of the College's other distinguished past deans.
Joe's article, To a Point, 52 Loy. L. Rev. 1201 (2007), was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
Joe participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as Jill O'Shea (Class of 1986), Duke Energy (Cincinnati, OH), taught his Contracts Class, and Brie Rogers (Class of 2002), Taft, Stettinius & Hollister (Cincinnati, OH), taught his Law, Literature, and Philosophy Class.
Joe served as a peer reviewer for Yale University Press. His article on Judicial Compensation will appear in next month's issue of the Cincinnati Bar magazine.
Joe served as Board Chair of the:Joe's article, Institutionalized Conflict between Law and Policy, 22 Hous. L.Rev. 661 (1985), was cited in Charles H. Koch, Jr., Administrative Law and Practice (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).
Joe was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame and a Distinguished Visiting Energy Professor at Vermont Law School. He delivered the keynote address on Law, Language, Energy and the Environment at the Second Annual Energy Summer Conference at Vermont Law School.
Joe published:Joe submitted a book chapter, Dirty Energy, to be included in a book on climate change to be published by MIT Press.
Joe participated in the following conferences:Joe served as a Site Inspector for the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar for the Vanderbilt Law School summer Program in Venice, Italy.
Two of Joe's articles were cited:Joe's book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (Thomson-West, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), and his article, Nuclear Futures, 15 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 221 (2005), were cited in Fred Bosselman, The Ecological Advantages of Nuclear Power, 15 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1 (2007).
Joe's book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), was cited in Brian H. Potts, Trading Grandfathered Air – A New, Simpler Approach, 31 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 115 (2007).
Joe's election to the Great American Board of Directors was recognized in several local newspapers:Joe attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Joe published Smart Energy Path: How Willie Nelson Saved the Planet, 36 Cumb. L. Rev. 417 (2006). His article, Katrina's Energy Agenda, 20 Nat. Resources & Env't 43 (2006), and book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), were cited in Scott A. Zimmermann, Feds and Fossils: Meaningful State Participation in the Development of Liquefied Natural Gas, 33 Ecology L.Q. 789 (2006).
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