Past Lectures & Conferences

May 2021

April 2021

Wednesday
28
April
2021
Matthew E. Kahn and Robin Kundis Craig
Adapting to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives

Matthew E. Kahn, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business, Director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative, Johns Hopkins University

Robin Kundis Craig, James I. Farr Presidential Endowed Professor of Law, University Distinguished Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Friday
23
April
2021
photo of melting arctic ice
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact

Sponsored by The Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve School of Law, The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

Tuesday
20
April
2021
Professor Emeritus Morris G. Shanker

March 2021

Thursday
11
March
2021
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Detecting Human Trafficking: Past and Future

Bill Cloninger, Senior Investigator in KeyBank’s AML Investigations Unit

Phil DeLuca, Senior Vice President and Director of Compliance Controls at U.S. Bank

Angel Nguyen Swift, Head of Conduct Management, Wells Fargo

Maya Simek, clinical law professor and co-director of Case Western Reserve’s Health & Human Trafficking Clinic

Daniel M. Polar, Director, Market Planning – Financial Crimes Compliance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Thursday
11
March
2021
Professor Peter Gerhart and a law student
Thursday
11
March
2021
G Morrical, L LaRochelle and D Schiau
Ohio’s New Limited Liability Company Act

Glenn Morrical, partner, Corporate and Securities Practice Group of the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis LLP. 

Ludgy LaRochelle, counsel, Corporate and Securities Practice Group of the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis LLP. 

Dan Schiau, associate, Corporate and Securities Practice Group of the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis LLP.

Tuesday
9
March
2021
Susan Hatters Friedman
Murder in the Family: Perpetrators, Motives and Prevention

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD serves as the inaugural Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University

Monday
1
March
2021
Photo of Karen Bradshaw and Holly Doremus
Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights

Karen Bradshaw, Professor of Law and the Mary Sigler Fellow, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Holly Doremus, the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at the University of California, Berkeley

February 2021

Wednesday
24
February
2021
Joshua R. Giddings
Joshua R.Giddings: The Forgotten Abolitionist of the Western Reserve

Robert Storey (LAW '64), retired Ohio attorney

Wednesday
24
February
2021
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Military Use of Biomedical Performance Enhancements: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Concerns

Maxwell J. Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor; Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, School of Law; Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine; Director, Law-Medicine Centers, School of Law

Monday
22
February
2021
Robert Rapp
Securities Laws and Small Business Capital Formation: What Has the SEC Done for You Lately

Robert Rapp, Visiting Assistant Professor, CWRU School of Law

Thursday
18
February
2021
Professor Sharona Hoffman
Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care

Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM; Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law; Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine; Co-Director, The Law-Medicine Center, School of Law

Wednesday
17
February
2021
Lonita Baker, Co-Counsel for Breonna Taylor and Family
Breonna Taylor and the Pursuit of Justice

Lonita Baker, Co-Counsel for Breonna Taylor and Family 

Thursday
11
February
2021
Braddock Stevenson
Detecting and Preventing COVID-19 Fraud

Braddock Stevenson, AML and Payments Counsel for O’Melveny & Myers

January 2021

Thursday
28
January
2021
Photo of President Biden and Vice President Harris
After the Inauguration: Abortion Law in 2021
  • Farah Diaz-Tello, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
  • Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Julia Kaye, American Civil Liberties Union, Reproductive Freedom Project
  • Rachel Rebouche, Temple University Beasley School of Law
  • Ushma Upadhyay, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco
Thursday
21
January
2021
Photo of President Donald Trump

December 2020

November 2020

Wednesday
18
November
2020
Tammy Boyd
Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Legal Implications and the Need for Policy to Effect Change

Tammy Boyd, Chief Policy Officer & Counsel for Black Women’s Health Imperative

Friday
13
November
2020
President Donald J. Trump listens as European Union Ambassadoir Stavros Lambrinidis delivers remarks Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, at the announciement of an agreement between the U.S. and the European Union to increase U.S. beef exports to European markets. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)