Professor Jack Harrison
Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity
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The David and Nancy Wolf Chair and Program in Ethics and Professional听Identity, endowed by alumnus David Wolf and Nancy Wolf, enables Chase to offer听and to continually expand education in the areas of ethical conduct and social听justice. It supports programming related to ethics and professionalism,听including enhancements to pro bono and public interest service by students,听training in diversity, equity and inclusion, recruitment of an听ethicist-in-residence and development of lectureships in ethics and听professional responsibility.
The chair was established in the 2023-24 academic year with听the appointment of Professor Jack Harrison. Professor Harrison, who joined the听Chase faculty in 2011, enhances the chair by his combined experience as a听practicing lawyer, a law professor and a seminarian with a degree in theology.听Prior to joining the Chase faculty he practiced for almost 20 years in major听Cincinnati law firms. He teaches such courses as Torts, Civil Procedure,听Professional Responsibility, and Sexual Orientation and the Law. He also directs听the Chase Center for Excellence in Advocacy, which offers students experience听primarily in courtroom advocacy.
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Inaugural Lecture - Woman in Gold
The newly endowed David and Nancy Wolf听Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity at Chase College of Law presented its inaugural lecture on September 27, 2023 on a lawyer鈥檚 account of听recovering artwork stolen during the Holocaust. The presentation by Los Angeles lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg, followed by his conversation with Chase听Professor Jack Harrison, who holds the Wolf Chair, was held at the听Cincinnati Museum Center, and is in partnership with the Nancy听& David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, located at the museum听center.
Mr. Schoenberg is a litigator and grandson of Austrian-American听composer Arnold Schoenberg, who fled Nazi persecution prior to World War II, who听took on the challenge to recover for a family friend six paintings by Gustav听Klimt held by an Austrian state museum that ultimately were valued at more than听$325 million. Among them was 鈥淕olden Lady,鈥 an early 20th century portrait听utilizing application of gold leaf, that gave name to the 2015 movie 鈥淲oman in听Gold鈥 that recounted Mr. Schoenberg鈥檚 decade-long legal quest that began in the听late 1990s. At the time, Mr. Schoenberg had been practicing law for about 10听years. Mr. Schoenberg successfully argued to the Supreme Court of听the United States that his client, Maria Altman, from whose family the paintings听had been stolen in 1938 in Nazi Germany-aligned Austria, could sue Austria for their听return. He subsequently prevailed in 2006 in arbitration in Austria that the听paintings be returned to Ms. Altman, who had fled Austria following Germany鈥檚听unopposed annexation of the country.听
The event was also sponsored by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Bar Association, Northern Kentucky Bar Association and the Ohio Innocence Project.听
