Contact Information
The University of Akron School of Law
C. Blake McDowell Law Center
Akron, OH 44325-2901

Office: C. Blake McDowell Law Center 238
Phone: 330-972-6751
Fax: 330-258-2343
jordan@uakron.edu

William S. Jordan, III, is a C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Law, Property and a Wetlands Regulation Seminar. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan. Following law school, he served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He then entered the private sector with Washington, D.C. firm of Sheldon, Harmon, Roisman & Weiss, which became Harmon, Weiss, and Jordan, where he engaged primarily in environmental and administrative litigation. He has taught at Akron Law since 1985. Professor Jordan’s research has addressed various aspects of judicial review. He is a former president of the Central States Law School Association. Professor Jordan is a member of the Council of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the ABA. He is also co-chair of the Section’s Judicial Review Committee and a contributing editor to Administrative and Regulatory Law News. He is a co-editor, with Charles Koch and Richard Murphy, of Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (5th Ed.), published by Lexis-Nexis.