Joseph Grant
Professor
Department
- Law School
Contact Information
- jgrant@law.lmjrsygc.com
- Capital University Law School
Biography
Joseph Karl Grant currently serves as the Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and holds the John E. Sullivan Professor of Law endowed professorship at Capital University School of Law. He has served on the full-time law faculties at West Virginia University College of Law, Appalachian School of Law, the University of Oregon, Florida A&M University College of Law, and Howard University School of Law.
Professor Grant graduated from Brown University in 1995, where he received his A.B. in Political Science. He spent his junior year abroad at the University of London, Queen Mary & Westfield College. He attended law school at Duke University School of Law where he received his J.D. degree in 1998. Prior to teaching Professor Grant practiced corporate and securities law, and labor and employment law with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP and corporate and securities law at Thompson, Hine & Flory, LLP in Cleveland, Ohio, before establishing and operating his own private practice in Cleveland, where he was born.
At Capital, Professor Grant teaches Property I and II and Estates & Trusts. In the past he has taught Business Associations I (Agency and Partnership), Business Associations II (Corporations), Business Organizations, Secured Transactions, Federal Income Taxation, Federal Estate & Gift Taxation, International Business Transactions, and an Estate Planning Practicum course. He has also taught seminars on Corporate Social Justice and Reconstruction and the Law. Professor Grant researches and writes in the areas of financial regulation, social and sustainable business entities, international trade, estates and trusts, and race and the law. He has published articles that have appeared in The Elder Law Journal (University of Illinois), the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Oregon Law Review, Indiana Law Review, Virginia Law & Business Review, Albany Law Review, McGeorge Law Review, the Journal of Legislation (Notre Dame), the University of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review, and the Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race.
- A.B., Brown University
- J.D., Duke University
- Property
- Business and Corporate Law
- Estates & Trusts
- Wills and Probate Law
- Race and the Law
Law Review Articles
Running Past Landmines—The Estate Attorney’s Dilemma: Ethically Counseling The Client With Alzheimer’s Disease, 24 The Elder Law Journal 101 (2016)
When Making Money and Making a Sustainable and Societal Difference Collide: Will Benefit Corporations Succeed or Fail?, 46 Indiana L. Rev. 581 (2013)
A Conversation with President Obama: A Dialogue About Poverty, Race, and Class in Black America, 1 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 25 (2012)
Planning for the Death of a Systemically Important Financial Institution Under Title I § 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act: The Practical Implications of Resolution Plans or Living Wills in Planning a Bank’s Funeral, 6:3 Virginia L. & Bus. Rev. 467 (Winter 2012)
What Can We Learn From the 2010 BP Oil Spill?: Five Important Corporate Law and Life Lessons, 42 McGeorge L. Rev. 809 (2011)
The Advance Directive Registry or Lockbox: A Model Proposal and Call to Legislative Action, 37 J. of Legis. (Notre Dame) 81 (2011)
The Graying of the American Manufacturing Economy: Gray Markets, Parallel Importation, and a Tort Law Approach, 88:4 Or. L. Rev. 1139 (2010)
What The Financial Services Industry Puts Together Let No Person Put Asunder: How The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 – The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act – Contributed to the 2008-2009 American Capital Markets Crisis, 73 Albany L. Rev. 371 (2010)(lead article)
The Valley Swim Club Of Huntingdon Valley Discrimination Controversy: The Racial, Economic, and Legal Implications for African-Americans and Latinos, Widener Journal of Law Economics & Race (2010), available at http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/special-projects/controversey-swim-club-of-huntingdon-valley/grant
The Meeting: A Transformational Train Ride Through Race in America and Apartheid in South Africa, Widener Journal of Law Economics & Race (2010), available at http://blogs.law.widener.edu/wjler/files/2010/04/forward.pdf
Shattering and Moving Beyond the Gutenberg Paradigm: The Dawn of the Electronic Will, 42 University of Mich. J. L. Reform 105 (Fall 2008)