Deborah Jones Merritt is an American legal scholar.
Merritt earned a bachelor of arts degree in history at Harvard College in 1977, and subsequently graduated from Columbia Law School in 1980.
She is the John Deaver Drinko–Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
[1] The Deborah Jones Merritt Center for the Advancement of Justice is named for her.
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