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Nearly 50 years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. The passage of time, however, has not diminished the legal and political fights over its future. With a conservative majority on the U.S.

In Fall 2019, Mariah Dick (‘19) joined the CWRU Law-Medicine Center as the Dean Lindsey Cowen Research Fellow, assisting faculty with cutting-edge research at the intersection of law, medicine and ethics. 

As of Sept. 1, 2020, CWRU Law School's Scholarly Commons has had over 2.85 million downloads worldwide.

Starting this fall, CWRU Law is offering a one-credit elective, “Race, Law and Society,” in response to recent anti-Black violence that has illuminated existing structural and institutional racism.

The Law School congratulates Assistant Dean Michael McCarthy, the 2020 winner of the President’s Award for Distinguished Service.  

Schools around the country are now in session, though they’re offering a patchwork of different learning models amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey Kadian, a second-year student at the School of Law, is taking a look at what the long-term impacts of these approaches are, especially for students who rely on special education programs.

Just one year removed from graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and drawing, Sydney Slacas did not wait long to make an impression.

While earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Clare Keonha Shin had her sights set on a career in law. But it was her work as a fashion model that pointed her in the direction of intellectual property law.

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Deborah Turner-Johnson, a dedicated law school faculty support staff member for 13 years, passed away on August 19, 2020.  She was 63. A website to post remembrances is available 

Professor Emeritus Morris G. Shanker passed away on August 18 at age 93.  Professor Shanker, who joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1961 and served as Acting Dean of the law school in 1972, had a considerable reputation in the fields of commercial law, creditor-debtor law, and bankruptcy.

Case Western Reserve University School of Law will be among the few law schools in the country to offer first-year law students the flexible option to start in January, Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf announced today.  For the first time, the Law School is also now accepting GRE scores from applicants, in addition to the

Donald Lampert, who taught Workers Compensation as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for 28 years, passed away on August 10, 2020 from a hemorrhagic stroke.  He is survived by his wife, Patty and his son, Charles. 

On July 23, 2020, Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel testified before the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights as an invited panelist. The hearings were entitled Civil Rights and Equity in the Delivery of Medical and Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ohio.

Ikechukwu Ekeke ('16), a fellow in the law school's Milton A.