Cleveland State cancels Justice John Marshall from law school name

Cleveland State University eliminated from its law school the name of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, appointed over 200 years ago to the bench.

University officials removed Marshall’s name due to his ownership of slaves and his comments in support of slavery. However, the dean of the law school told The College Fix on December 5 that this is not an example of “erasing history.”

The Cleveland State University board of trustees voted unanimously in November to change the name of its law school from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law to Cleveland State University College of Law, or CSU College of Law, “until further notice,” according to a November news release. There are no immediate plans to give the school a new name.