| Title: | Professor - Retired |
| Dept: | Law |
| Office: | LB 214 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2342 |
| Fax: | 216-687-6881 |
| Email: | D.FORTE@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. LB 214, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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B.A., Harvard College
M.A., University of Manchester Ph.D., University of Toronto J.D., Columbia University | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| David F. Forte is Professor of Law at Cleveland State University. He holds degrees from Harvard College, Manchester University, England, the University of Toronto and Columbia University.
Professor Forte was the inaugural holder of the Charles R. Emrick, Jr.- Calfee Halter & Griswold Endowed Chair at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. During the Reagan administration, Professor Forte served as chief counsel to the United States delegation to the United Nations and alternate delegate to the Security Council. He has authored a number of briefs before the United States Supreme Court, and has frequently testified before the United States Congress and consulted with the Department of State on human rights and international affairs issues. His advice was specifically sought on the approval of the Genocide Convention, on world-wide religious persecution, and Islamic extremism. He has appeared and spoken frequently on radio and television, both nationally and internationally. In 2002, the Department of State sponsored a speaking tour for Professor Forte in Amman, Jordan, and he was also a featured speaker to the Meeting of Peoples in Rimini, Italy, a meeting which gathers over 500,000 people from all over Europe. He has also been called to testify before the state legislatures of Ohio, Kansas, Idaho as well as the New York City Council. He has assisted in drafting a number of pieces of legislation for the Ohio General Assembly dealing with abortion, international trade, and federalism. He has sat as acting judge on the municipal court of Lakewood Ohio and was chairman of Professional Ethics Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association. He has received a number of awards for his public service, including the Cleveland Bar Association¿s President¿s Award, the Cleveland State University Award for Distinguished Service, the Cleveland State University Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. He served as Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family under Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2003, Dr. Forte was a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the University of Trento and returned there in 2004 as a Visiting Professor. For the academic year, 2008-2009, Professor Forte was Senior Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Religion and the Constitution in at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. He has given over 300 invited addresses and papers at more than 100 academic institutions. Professor Forte was a Bradley Scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and Visiting Scholar at the Liberty Fund. He has been President of the Ohio Association of Scholars, was on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Society, and is also adjunct Scholar at the Ashbrook Institute. He has been appointed to the Ohio State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has also been also a Civil War re-enactor and a Merit Badge Counselor for the Boy Scouts. He writes and speaks nationally on topics such as constitutional law, religious liberty, Islamic law, the rights of families, and international affairs. He served as book review editor for the American Journal of Jurisprudence and has edited a volume entitled, Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy, published by Georgetown University Press. His book, Islamic Law Studies: Classical and Contemporary Applications, has been published by Austin & Winfield. He is Senior Editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2006, 2014), published by Regnery & Co, a clause by clause analysis of the Constitution of the United States. His teaching competencies include Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, Islamic Law, Jurisprudence, Natural Law, International Law, International Human Rights, and Constitutional History. | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Academic Standards Committee, Chair, 198893, 199498, Member 200208
Adjunct Faculty Committee, 198992 Admissions Committee, 197779 Advisor, Niagara Moot Court Competition, 198081, 198283 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 198688 Baker-Hostetler Chair Committee, 199497 Building Committee, 199498; 19992004; 2006. Centennial Committee, 1996 Committee on Style Cleveland-Marshall Faculty Forum Co-ordinator, 2003 Cleveland-Marshall Fund Subcommittee on Summer Grants, 200203 Committee on Graduate Studies, Chair 198384, 198992, Member 198892; 19992000 Curriculum Committee, 197677, ex officio 198688 Faculty Adviser, Catholic Lawyers Guild, Federalist Society, Islamic Discussion Group, Cleveland-Marshall Republicans Faculty Appointments Committee, Chair 197982, 2000-01, 2004-05; Member 197678, 199293, 199900, 2005-06 Faculty Council/Faculty Senate, 197882, 198892, 199498, 2000-06 Steering Committee, 198182, 199498, 2007 Faculty Honors Committee, Chair 198688 Faculty Jurisprudence Seminar, Director 198083, 198688 Faculty Reinspection and Review Committee, Chair 1984, Member 1991, 2004 Faculty Research Luncheon Series, Coordinator 197883, 198688 Foreign Exchange Committee, 199293 L860 Ad Hoc Committee Law Student Academic Outcome Assessment Plan, Chair, l99698 Library Committee, 200203 Library Director Search Committee, Chair, 199495 Moot Court Ad Hoc Committee Personal Action Committee, Chair subcommittee for Promotion to Full Professor, 1989, 2000, 2004; Chair Subcommittee for Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, 1994, 1999, 2004 Special Committee on Academic Misconduct, Chair 1979 Student Life Committee, 1998 Strategic Planning Committee, Steering Committee, 199798 University ad hoc Committee on Program Review, 200203 University Appropriate Use Advisory Committee, 2000 University Assessment Committee, 199698 University Committee on Academic Space, 2004-2005 University Curricular Review Committee, 197981 University Employee Benefits Committee, 199597 University Faculty Affairs Committee, 2005-06 University Faculty Awards Committee, 2000 University Financial Aid Committee, Chair 197981, Member 197779 University Graduate Council, 2005-2008 University Provost Search Committee, 2000 Upper-Level Curriculum Review Committee, 1990 Values Task Force, 1990 | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican, Consultor
Philadelphia Society, Board of Directors Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund, Board of Directors, Executive Committee Salvatori Center on the American Founding, The Heritage Foundation, Board of Directors Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Adjunct Scholar Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Board of Academic Advisers National Lawyers Association, Board of Academic Advisers, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Board of Editors, Book Review Editor, 1997-2003 The Federalist Society, Religious Liberties Practice Group, International Issues Subcommittee, Chairman | ||