Douglas E. Ray Dean of the College of Law Office:  LC2000C Campus Phone: (419) 530-2379 Fax Number: (419) 530-4526 Email: Douglas.Ray@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Shirley Baker (419) 530-7877

Douglas E. Ray is Dean and Professor of Law. Dean Ray previously served as Dean of the Widener University School of Law and Vice President of Widener University from January 1999 until June 2005. He was responsible for law school campuses in Wilmington, Delaware and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From 1981-1998 he taught at The University of Toledo College of Law where he served as Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values and also as an associate dean.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Harvard Law School, Dean Ray has been an economist with the U.S. Department of Labor, a labor attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis and a professor at the University of Richmond Law School. He served in the United States Army from 1966 to 1970.

Dean Ray has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations including state and local bar associations and the Association of American Law Schools.

He has served as chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Dean Ray has also been a frequent speaker on national programs concerning labor and employment law. For example, he has spoken at the FMCS Annual Labor-Management Conference, and programs sponsored by the Labor and Employment Section and Teaching Methods Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He has also appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. In 2004, he gave the Keynote Address at the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference.

Since 1999, he has chaired the annual four-day Course in Labor Law and Labor Arbitration sponsored by the Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) and held in Dallas, Texas.

Dean Ray has taught and published in the fields of labor law, employment discrimination law, torts and labor arbitration.

Books

• Understanding Labor Law (M. Bender 1999, 2nd Edition 2005). (with Sharp and Strassfeld)
• Labor-Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts and Boycotts (West Group 1992, 2nd Edition 2004). (with Cameron and Corbett)