J.H. Huebert

Adjunct Professor of Law

Office: #161
Tel: 419-772-3920
Fax: 419-772-3514
Email: j-huebert@onu.edu

Biography:

Professor Huebert is an award-winning attorney who conducts an active law practice in Columbus.

His opinions have been solicited by both the print and the electronic media. He has appeared on television and in newspapers to comment on controversial legal policies, such as government intervention in the human organ transplant market, victimless crime, and the destruction of civil and constitutional rights since 9/11.

He has lectured on legal and academic issues in the United States and in Europe. His writing appears often in professional journals as well as the popular press all across America.  See “Selected Writings/Presentations” below.  

Professor Huebert established his practice in Columbus with Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, one of the oldest and largest law firms in Ohio, founded in 1846. Porter Wright also maintains offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Washington, DC, and Naples, Florida. 

Since he joined Porter Wright, Professor Huebert has been involved in litigation ranging from real estate matters to business disputes to the death penalty. He has briefed and orally argued issues successfully before the U.S. Court of Appeals. He has conducted productive field investigations and witness interviews. He has represented clients effectively in both state and federal court.  He has also independently introduced new business to the firm.  And during his tenure at Porter Wright, the Distinguished Service Award was twice conferred upon him by The Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

Before he joined Porter Wright, Professor Huebert served as law clerk to Judge Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. While attending the University of Chicago Law School, he served as law clerk with the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, where he worked primarily on constitutional matters. During law school he also served as law clerk extern to Judge John W. Darrah of the U. S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. While an economics major at Grove City College, Professor Huebert served two consecutive summers as research intern with the Foundation for Economic Education in New York.

As founder and sole proprietor of an internet business, Professor Huebert for several years provided site design and setup, facility maintenance, webmaster services, and operations control to physicians/hospitals from Pennsylvania to Florida.

In addition to serving as Adjunct Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, Professor Huebert also serves as Adjunct Faculty Member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was twice awarded a Felix Morley Competition Prize in Journalism.

Selected Publications:

Author, "Mexico, relations with," including war and peace, treaty law, trade and diplomacy, in Exploring American History; an 11-volume, library reference encyclopedia, 2008

Author, "I Exploit Credit Cards. So Should You," Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 2008

Author, "Is there anything a President Can’t Do?" Orange County Register, June 16, 2008

Author, review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 58, No. 4, May 2008

Author, review of "My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir," by Clarence Thomas, Liberty magazine, May, 2008

Author, "Downtown Revitalization: City Governments Versus Consumers," The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 58, No. 3, April 2008

Author, "Grisham Book a Low Blow to High Court," Columbus Dispatch, April 17, 2008

Author, "State Budget Should be Online for all to Audit," Columbus Dispatch, February 22, 2008

Author, "Amicus Advocacy before the Supreme Court of Ohio," OACTA Quarterly, Spring 2008

Author, "Chronicling the Shredding of Our Rights Since 9/11," Orange County Register, December 8, 2007

Author, "Check Your Assumptions about Assumption of Risk," with Terrence M. Miller and David K. Orensten, For the Defense, December 2007

Author, "Stop Government Gratuity Grabbing," Orange County Register, November 20, 2007

Author, "Justices Not Ready for their Close-Ups," Orange County Register, September 29, 2007

Author, "Space Environmentalism, Property Rights, and the Law," with Walter Block, 37 University of Memphis Law Review 281, 2007

Author, "The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Preserving Privacy in an Age of Transparency," with David Douglass, Privacy Project III, International Association of Defense Counsel, 2007

Author, "Free Speech Shouldn’t be Limited in Commerce," Columbus Dispatch, July 10, 2007

Author, "Paris Hilton another Victimless Criminal," Orange County Register, June 25, 2007

Author, "Organ-Donor Shortage Should Trigger Market Forces," Columbus Dispatch, June 6, 2007

Author, "Time to Stamp out the Postal Monopoly," Baltimore Sun, May 15, 2007

Author, "What’s Wrong with a Little Judicial Activism?" Orange County Register, May 13, 2007

Author, "Taking a Bite out of Victimless Crime," Palm Beach Post, May 11, 2007

Author, "Paying Our Own Way into Space," Orange County Register, April 29, 2007

Author, "Snoop Dogg a Victimless Criminal," Orange County Register, January 21, 2007

Author, "A Truly Looney Idea: $10 Billon a Year for a Moon Base," Hartford Courant, December 15, 2006

Author, review of Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4, Fall 2006

Author, "Free-Market Justice is in the Cards," an analysis of credit card private dispute resolution; The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 55, No. 3, April 2005; Italian translation published as "La giustizia del libero mercato si legge nelle carte," IBL FOCUS, Istituto Bruno Leoni, Turin, Italy, August 2005; other translations forthcoming.

Author, review of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, by Randy E. Barnett, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 19, No 2, Spring 2005

Author, "Murphy’s Law," (eminent domain abuse) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 18, 2002

Author, "Independent Schools at Risk," an analysis of Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984) and Title IX issues; The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 49, No 9, September 1999

Moderator, "Walter Block and Richard Epstein Debate on Eminent Domain," at the University of Chicago Law School, Published at 1 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 1144, 2005

Speaker, "In Defense of Advertising in Space," an academic paper presented at the 49th Colloquium on The Law of Outer Space at Valencia, Spain, October 2006; featured in Advertising Age, October 9, 2006

Speaker, "Space Environmentalism, Property Rights, and the Law," Austrian Scholars Conference at The Ludwig von Mises Institute, March 2006

Speaker, "Credit Card Companies as Private Producers of Justice," Austrian Scholars Conference at The Ludwig von Mises Institute, March 2004

Photographer, Work hosted for traveling exhibition by The Chicago Photography Center, 2004-2006

Photographer, Front cover of the Educational Development Center journal, Mosaic, Spring 2004

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Activities/Interests:

Independent adventurer: Exploring indigenous archaeological sites in Guatemala, Mexico and South America; climbing pyramids and volcanoes, including the highest peak in Central America, as well as Machu Picchu in Peru; paddling along jungle waterways in a native dugout photographing everything in sight; interviewing and photographing Garifuna in Guatemala, Muslims in Mexico, and tambourine belly dancers in Turkey, between shooting photos of Big Ben in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and castles in Spain; plus racquetball, tennis, scuba diving, marksmanship and sport parachuting.

Photographer: Environmental portraiture, macro photography, nature, landscape and architecture

Musician: Symphony orchestra cellist and jazz band trombonist

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Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law 525 S. Main Street, Ada, OH 45810
Phone: 419.772.3051 (Dean's Office)   Admissions: 419.772.2211