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Jessie Hill was given the Champion for Women Award by the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus for her advocacy and litigation in the area of reproductive rights. For several years, Hill has been involved in legal challenges to laws restricting access to abortion in Ohio.

Case Western Reserve University School of Law boasts a top ranked faculty in downloads of their scholarship (Heald and Sichelman study of scholarly impact), citations to their publications (Sisk/Leiter s

Owen M. Migdal was just 17 years old when he finished high school in Maryland and began his undergraduate education at The University of Utah.

It’s a common problem in inner-city neighborhoods: An elderly parent dies, but the family home was never legally transferred to relatives.

Another win for the First Amendment Clinic! On April 20, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas denied a Motion to Authorize Discovery into the identities of anonymous commenters criticizing the Beachwood Chief of Police Katherine McLaughlin.

On April 10, the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, spoke about the environmental legacy of Justice William O. Douglas, both as a Supreme Court justice and citizen advocate for environmental conservation.

Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law Director Jonathan H. Adler’s latest book, Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave), explores the intersection of climate change policy and classical liberal political theory.

Every community faces its own challenges—and often, the struggles are shared across boundaries. In mid-April, Case Western Reserve University School of Law students explored three Cleveland-area communities to see in person how leaders grapple with pressing land-use challenges.

2L Maryam Mahboob was recently awarded the Real Property Law Student Scholarship from the Ohio State Bar Association’s Real Property Law Section, a $2,500 award that comes with a representative seat on the Real Property Law Section Council.

Monte Mills, the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and director of the Native American Law Center at University of Washington School of Law, joined the Coleman P.

Case Western Reserve University is launching a new program to capitalize on commercializing innovations arising from the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine.  The program, which begins in fall semester 2023, is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Law.

Nearly three months after news broke that a train had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, students in the Environmental Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law held a free legal clinic in East Palestine. 

After completing multiple different internships and externships during his time at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 3L Sam Halpert Rodis is looking ahead to his post-graduate life as a Judge Advocate with the U.S. Army.

We are proud to announce the addition of four impactful lateral hires to our community of scholars and the promotion of Ayesha Bell Hardaway to full professor of law with tenure (all effective July 1 except Atiba Ellis, who began Jan. 1). 

3L Andrew Thompson was recently awarded first place in the Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition for his note “Shortened Limitation Periods in Employment Contracts: A Reasonable Suggestion,” which will be published in Volume 73 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review.