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One of the reasons CWRU School of Law’s International Law Program is ranked so highly is the school’s unique Concurrent Degree Program. A decade ago, CWRU School of Law established three Concurrent Degree Partnerships—with Middlesex University in London, Université Paris-IX Dauphine and Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.

After graduating from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2022, Jilly Fox began her legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York City. Recently, she returned to Ohio to continue transactional law work at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their age.

In November, the Compliance, Risk Management and Financial Integrity Institute hosted a lecture by Sanjeev Bhasker on digital assets and cybersecurity. Bhasker serves as Deputy General Counsel with the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the White House.

In what has become a regular occurrence, faculty members at the School of Law at Case Western Reserve are often the first contact for journalists trying to make sense of a news story.

CWRU Law Alum Su He, who earned both her LLM and JD from our law school, was recently honored as one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 leaders.

When Daniel Leizerman entered law school, he learned one thing very quickly: studying textbooks was not his ideal method of learning.  “I wasn’t satisfied sitting in class and reading cases all day,” Leizerman laughs. “So I talked to my parents and they suggested reaching out to Legal Aid in Cleveland.”

A decade after Tanisha Anderson was killed after being restrained by Cleveland police during a mental health crisis, Case Western Reserve University School of Law students are working to change local policy to honor her memory—and prevent such tragedies from happening again.

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the School of Law had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Shevchenko) and helped establish the School’s American Common Law Center. Since 2013, the Common Law Center has provided academic services at Shevchenko, including professional workshops.

On Friday, Oct. 25, the Center for Business Law co-hosted the Ohio Securities Conference with The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Securities. This is the fifty-first year of the annual event that brings together leading experts in securities law to discuss cutting-edge securities regulation issues.

Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? Why does Taiwan matter?  On Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. and re-airing at 9 p.m., CWRU School of Law's “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will discuss those questions with leading experts including:

Elizabeth Prelogar, the 48th Solicitor General of the United States, shared her thoughts on representing the federal government before the Supreme Court, appellate advocacy and the keys to a happy legal career before a packed audience of students, alumni and local attorneys at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law on September 4, 202

This semester the law school competed for the first time in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition.

On Friday, Nov. 8, the Center for Business Law hosted the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy.

Case Western Reserve University law student Robert Read recently made an oral argument in front of the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Summit County, presenting a case for a client charged with criminal damaging of a window.