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Professor Jonathan H. Adler provided analysis and insight on television, radio and in print after the Supreme Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. 

While most of the world is focused on war crimes committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in Yemen continues to be the site of some of the worst atrocities and suffering on the planet. Case Western Reserve University School of Law is playing a unique role in documenting those crimes for eventual prosecution.  

One of Case Western Reserve University’s most iconic alumni—the man Martin Luther King Jr. called the “chief counsel for the protest movement”—received one of the highest honors bestowed on a United States civilian on July 7.

Recently, the Community Development Clinic at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law has aimed to devote more of its legal services to nonprofits and social enterprises in neighborhoods close to the university’s campus.

Area high school students attending the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Summer Legal Academy are getting a trial run in the legal profession at Case Western Reserve University School of Law this summer.

As a first-generation law student, Christine Love said she had no idea what law school would be like apart from what she had seen on TV. Now a second-year student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Love credits the school’s JumpStart program for helping her be successful.

Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosts five journals that publish scholarly articles from leading academics and practitioners and select Notes from student editors.

Years before Evergreen Cooperatives became nationally known for employee ownership and building wealth in low-income Cleveland neighborhoods, Matthew Rossman and his law students were at the table with the founders, discussing legal issues at the heart of Evergreen’s formation.

The Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law celebrated its third anniversary by marking its tremendous progress toward making the Case Western Reserve University School of Law a national presence in environmental law research and education.  In just three years, the Burke Center has:

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Elizabeth Cisar, senior policy advisor in the Office of Water, discussed the opportunities and challenges facing the EPA as it seeks to enhance and improve the nation's water quality.

On June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Golan v.

The School of Law at Case Western Reserve University recently honored its LGBTQIA+ students with its first Lavender Graduation ceremony, celebrating the achievements of our graduating LGBTQIA+ students and their allies and showing appreciation for their contributions to the law school community.

On Saturday, May 14, Case Western Reserve University School of Law celebrated the Class of 2022 during a commencement ceremony at Severance Music Center. A recording of the event is available to view online.

Patrick Conroy, Yang Gu and Alexa Shook, 2022 graduates of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, successfully persuaded the State of Ohio to grant property tax exemption to The Edna House for Women for its newly expanded campus in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She’s also the librettist and composer of the opera The Sparks Fly Upward, which has its Cleveland premiere at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center June 9-12.