Joseph Oteng is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice. Joseph’s areas of scholarship include education and epistemic justice, law as civic education, student development in the law school environment, and pedagogy in the legal academy. His scholarship has is forthcoming in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Before joining GULC, Joseph spent years working a Dean’s Fellow and Professorial Lecturer at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law teaching a variety of courses including Legal Writing and Analysis; Place and Space: Law, Education, and Integration; and Social Identity, Consciousness, and Law in addition to programming on professional identity development, and supporting First Generation Law Student and other student affinity communities. Joseph worked with admissions and student services in recruiting and retaining law students, and improving pedagogy with teaching innovation. Joseph also served as a Hearing Officer with the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas overseeing dispositional hearings and record sealing with the Teen Court.

Prior to Ohio State, Joseph was a Social Justice Fellow with Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio (formerly known as Legal Aid Society of Columbus) in their Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP) providing same-day representation to indigent clients facing several eviction, housing, and other landlord-tenant issues. While a student at OSU Law, Joseph staffed a special education clinic, proposed a specialized docket with the Supreme Court of Ohio Children and Family Section, conducted pre-litigation support work with CASA of Franklin County (Court Appointed Special Advocates), and research on policing and attacks on journalists with the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. He worked as a social justice educator conducting over 235 workshops, keynote speaking engagements, and retreats, in addition to creating 120+ infographics, video lessons, and resources.

Before law school, Joseph was the Assistant Director of Orientation and Transition Programs at Otterbein University and worked in college student affairs. Joseph received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont, masters in higher education and student personnel from Kent State University, law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and PhD from the Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology. He is barred in DC.