Advisor Information for Students

Dear Law Students:

We are here for you!    Did you know that you are most welcome to consult with ANY law faculty member as your advisor?   Rather than have rigid formal assignments of one law faculty advisor, we want you to know that ALL Akron Law faculty members are available for you to contact and schedule an appointment for consultation.   

For your convenience, the law school’s faculty webpage contains all of our faculty bios to help you determine which faculty share an interest, etc.  We hope you will take opportunities to contact faculty in your areas of interest.  

 And when it comes to technical help of program requirements and mapping strategies that might be more helpful to your particular situation, please feel free to contact specific advisors as follows:

 Academic Advising for JD degrees, joint JD/GRAD degrees

• • o   Use DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) in Zipline (available after your first semester grades have posted)
    • Lauri Thorpe, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Affairs
    • Ivy Washington-Marshall, Assistant Director of Admissions and Student Affairrs
    • Elizabeth Sauders, Student Affairs College Program Specialist – Law School Registrar

  Academic Advising for joint JD/LLM degrees, JD/LLM/GRAD degrees

• o   Use DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) in Zipline (expected to be available after your first semester grades have posted)
  • Contact Lauri Thorpe, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Affairs
  • Contact Jeffrey Samuels, Professor of Law and Director of IP Law and Technology Center

 Advising for the Intellectual Property (IP) Certificate

• • Use DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) in Zipline (available after your first semester grades have posted)
    • Contact Jeffrey Samuels, Professor of Law and Director of IP Law and Technology Center
    • Contact Samuel Oddi , Professor of IP
    • Contact Ryan Vacca, Professor of IP
    • Contact William Jordan, Associate Dean

  Advising for the Litigation (IP) Certificate

• Use DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) in Zipline (available after your first semester grades have posted)
• Contact J. Dean Carro, Professor of Law and Director of Legal Clinic and Appellate Review
• Contact Dana Cole, Associate Professor of Law
• Contact William Jordan, Associate Dean

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact College Program Specialist and Law School Registrar, Elizabeth Sauders by email (sauders@uakron.edu) or phone at 330.972.6346.  We wish you the very best for a successful year!