Past Lectures & Conferences

October 2020

Friday
9
October
2020
Susie Ruth Powell
The Legal and Writing Adventures of Susie Ruth Powell

Susie Ruth Powell ('73), the Law School’s 2020 Centennial Medal winner and co-author of the Emmy-award-winning HBO documentary, “The Loving Story,”

Wednesday
7
October
2020
Sidney Picker Jr.
Thursday
1
October
2020
photo of a person being vaccinated
Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do

Maxwell J. Mehlman, Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law

Dr. Michael Lederman, Professor of Medicine at CWRU School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Case Medical Center

Stuart J. Youngner, Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry

September 2020

Wednesday
30
September
2020
Judge Willett
2020 Elections: Challenges to Access, Opportunities for Engagement

Jen Miller, executive director, League of Women Voters-Ohio;

Kayla Griffin and Ifeolu Claytor, All Voting Is Local

Bryan Adamson, School of Law associate dean for diversity and inclusion and the David L. and Ann Brennan professor of law.

Tuesday
29
September
2020
picture of people waiting to vote
The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Health Care

Panelists include Professor Jessie Hill, Sara Rosenbaum J.D., J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., Professor Joe White, Professor Sharona Hoffman and Professor Maxwell J. Mehlman

Thursday
24
September
2020
Dominic DiPuccio is chair of Taft's Mergers and Acquisitions group
Real Estate Private Equity Joint Ventures – Key Terms

Dominic DiPuccio, chair of Taft's Mergers and Acquisitions group

Wednesday
23
September
2020
Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown
Prison Abolition and a Mule

Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and legal analyst on MSNBC

Monday
21
September
2020
Photo of Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
Reproductive Rights and the Roberts Court

Jessie Hill, JD, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law

August 2020

Tuesday
25
August
2020
Wesley Lowery, news correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and author
Tucker Ellis In-House Counsel Summit: Racial Inequality in America

Wesley Lowery, news correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author

Thursday
6
August
2020
Satyajit Boolell
Should the United States back Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelagos ?

Satyajit Boolell, Director of Public Prosecutions for Mauritius

July 2020

Friday
24
July
2020
Capricia Penavic Marshall
From Cleveland to Chief of Protocol: Lessons on Diplomacy, Protocol, and Soft Power

Capricia Penavic Marshall, President and CEO, Global Engagement Strategies; Ambassador-in-Residence, Atlantic Council; former Chief of Protocol of the United States; and author, "Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You"

June 2020

Tuesday
30
June
2020
Cathy Mansfield
Nazi Laws: From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide

Professor Cathy Lesser Mansfield, senior instructor in law, CWRU School of Law

Tuesday
30
June
2020
Andrew Geronimo
Communications Decency Act Section 230 and the Future of Online Speech

Kendra Albert, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic

Blake Reid, Clinical Professor, Colorado Law

Andrew Geronimo, Attorney at Law, Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center

Danielle Blunt, NYC-based Dominatrix and sex worker rights and anti-traffiking advocate

Lorelei Lee, sex worker activist, writer, recent law school graduate, and 2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow.

Tuesday
23
June
2020
Photo of John F. Sopko
Corruption: A Threat to the Rule of Law and Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan

John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

Tuesday
23
June
2020
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Assistant Professor Anat Alon-Beck
Market Developments Affecting Late Stage Private Placements

Anat Alon-Beck, Case Western School of Law

Kevin Gsell, Nasdaq Private Markets

Brooke Parker, Barclays Capital

Anna Pinedo, Mayer Brown

Thomas Vitale, Mayer Brown

Thursday
18
June
2020
Photo of Bryan Adamson
The George Floyd Teach-In, Part 3

Bryan Adamson, incoming CWRU chaired professor of law and associate dean of diversity and inclusion.

Jonathan Adler, Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development

Friday
12
June
2020
photo of U.S. Supreme Court
Presidential Records and a Pandemic at the Supreme Court

Jonathan H. Adler,  the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Thursday
11
June
2020
Photo of Bryan Adamson
George Floyd Teach-In, Part 2

Bryan Adamson, incoming CWRU chaired professor of law and associate dean of diversity and inclusion.

Lisa Daugaard, Public Defender Association in Seattle

Shakyra Diaz, Managing Director of Partnerships at the Alliance for Safety and Justice. 

Thursday
4
June
2020
photo of the law school
George Floyd Teach-In

Deborah Ahrens, Profesor of Law, Seattle University School of Law Associate Professor

Ayesha Bell Hardaway , CWRU Law Assistant Professor and Social Justice Law Center Director

Bryan Adamson, the incoming CWRU chaired professor of law and associate dean of diversity and inclusion.

May 2020

Tuesday
19
May
2020
Photo of the book, "The Syrian Conflicts Impacts on International Law."
The Syria Conflict's Impact on International Law: An Online Roundtable Discussion

Michael Scharf, Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Paul Williams, President of the Public International Law and Policy Group

Milena Sterio, Professor of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law

Kevin Nealer, Principal and Partner of the Scowcroft Group

April 2020

Wednesday
22
April
2020
Orly Lobel
(Canceled) You Don’t Own Me: How Barbie’s Wars Reveal the Dark Side of Enclosing Innovation

Orly Lobel, the Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Employment and Labor Law Program at the University of San Diego

Tuesday
21
April
2020
Professor Jonathan Adler lecturing with students in background
Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane

Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law; Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Cassandra Burke Robertson, John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law; Director, Center for Professional Ethics, School of Law

Julie A. Hill, Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law