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About Margery Koosed

Margery M. Koosed is the Aileen McMurray Trusler Professor, Emeritus at The University of Akron School of Law. Her writing focuses on death penalty litigation issues. She teaches criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, and seminars in criminal process and capital punishment litigation. Koosed received her B.S., cum laude, from Miami University and J.D. from Case Western Reserve University. A member of the Akron Law faculty since 1974, she served initially as a lecturer in law and coordinator of the Appellate Review/Legal Clinical Program, and later as a visiting professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Her bar admissions include the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit; the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio; and Ohio. Koosed is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, and other professional associations. She served two terms as a commissioner on the State Public Defender Commission, chairing the State Public Defender Commission's Committee on Capital Defense Counsel Qualifications. She recently served on the American Bar Association’s Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Team and previously served as coordinator of the Ohio Death Penalty Task Force. She has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Criminal Justice and as an acting judge of the South Euclid Municipal Court. Koosed is a frequent presenter on death penalty issues at litigation seminars and symposia.

Positions

Present Aileen McMurray Trusler Professor of Law, Emeritus, The University of Akron School of Law
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Disciplines

Law


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Courses

  • Criminal Law
  • Seminar in Capital Punishment Litigation
  • Seminar in Criminal Process
  • Administration of Criminal Justice


Contact Information

The University of Akron School of Law
C. Blake McDowell Law Center
Akron, OH 44325-2901
mkoosed@uakron.edu


Articles (7)

Recent Works (1)

Contributions to Books (5)