About The Wizard

Professor Katherine Silver Kelly joined THE Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law faculty in 2012. Prior to joining Moritz, Professor Kelly was the director of Academic Success Programs at the University of Akron School of Law.

At Moritz Professor Kelly teaches legal writing and is the director of Academic Support where she is responsible for Moritz’s bar exam support services including creating and teaching the law school’s first online class (Legal Analysis Workshop). She is also the faculty adviser for BLSA and coaches teams in Moritz’s award-winning moot court program. In 2016 and again in 2021, the graduating class selected her as Outstanding Professor of the Year. In 2017 OSU awarded her the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Outside of Moritz, Professor Kelly is involved with Legal Writing Institute  where she is a member of the academic support committee and regularly presents at regional and national conferences.  She is also a member of  Ohio State’s Academy of Teaching Executive Council, serves as a faculty mentor in the University’s New Faculty Mentoring Program, and is a mentor in the Ohio Supreme Court Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program. Her most important *job* is as a volunteer coach with the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities Special Olympics program in soccer, track, and basketball.

Professor Kelly earned a B.A. in History from Berea College, an M.A. in Education from the University of Kentucky, and Special Education teaching certification from Converse College. She the taught high school economics, government, and world history, and coached swimming and water polo for almost a decade before heading back to school where she earned her J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law.