Elon Student Chapter
Speakers:
Speakers:
Professor of Law, High Point School of Law
Scott Gaylord directs High Point Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic and serves as a Professor of Law, teaching Constitutional Law and related upper-level elective courses. The Appellate Clinic works with students to write and file briefs in significant court cases, including appeals before the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Gaylord is a prominent Constitutional Law scholar with an impressive background in both academia and legal practice. He has authored or co-authored 18 substantial law review articles, co-authored a Constitutional Law casebook, and has written more than 35 amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts on prominent national cases involving religious liberty and free speech. He is a frequent speaker on constitutional law and First Amendment topics at law schools across the country and has regularly provided commentary on ongoing constitutional issues to national media outlets, including th eNew York Times, USA Today, the Diane Rehm Show, NPR, The National Constitution Center, and Bloomberg Law.
Professor Gaylord also started an appellate advocacy clinic at his former law school and currently serves on the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, along with holding many other service and leadership roles. Prior to joining the academy in 2007, he practiced complex civil and commercial litigation with the Charlotte firm of Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, and he clerked for Judge Edith H. Jones on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Professor Gaylord earned his B.A. in philosophy and English, summa cum laude, from Colgate University, his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, where he also graduated summa cum laude.
Legal Educator-in-Residence, Cleveland State University College of Law
Howard E. Katz is the Legal Educator-in-Residence at the Cleveland State University College of Law. He has taught at several law schools (including CSU|LAW), has served as an academic dean, and has held other administrative roles at some of those schools. Among the courses he has taught are torts, contracts, property, constitutional law, land use, real estate finance, business ethics and law, and agency and partnership.
Howard regularly makes presentations about teaching and curriculum at law schools and national conferences, including the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), the Emory Transactional Law and Practice biennial conference, and Aspen's Leading Edge conference (where he has convened sessions on such topics as design thinking, the future of the casebook, teaching higher-order thinking, professional identity formation, designing the first year curriculum to foster opportunity and competency, and needed additions to the law school curriculum). Howard serves on the executive committees of the AALS Section on New Law Professors, the Section on Property Law, and the Section on Teaching Methods.
Howard is the co-author, along with CSU|LAW Professor Kevin O'Neill, of Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching, as well as helping to develop and serving as editor of the Strategies and Techniques series of books (providing subject matter-specific teaching advice for law professors). He has served as Chief Counsel to the Cleveland City Council and in a senior-level policy position in county government, and currently serves on the Planning Commission in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Howard helped design a housing assistance program for first-ring suburbs that won a U.S. EPA Smart Growth award, was a Knight Foundation Fellow in Community Building in conjunction with the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Congress for the New Urbanism, and was the Senior Fellow at the American Architecture Foundation. He has conducted numerous public affairs interviews for a Cleveland radio station over several years. Howard earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from Case W estern Reserve University and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
