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Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have been selected as the recipients of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s 2024 Richard W. Pogue Award for Leadership and Engagement.

It was a busy weekend this year at the School of Law on homecoming weekend. On Friday night, 13 new members were inducted into the Society of Benchers at their 60th induction ceremony.

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 will begin this fall, is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Law.

After a decade spent steering the School of Law from recovery to resurgence, co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have chosen to step down from their leadership roles this coming summer. 

From Oct. 26 through Oct. 28, the Ault Mock Trial Team competed in the Tournament of Champions hosted by the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas. This competition is sponsored by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

For students interested in appellate practice, this fall has offered exciting opportunities right here on campus.

On Oct. 25, Leila Sadat of Washington University School of Law delivered the 2023 Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights and received the Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice.

Francesca E. Veres can trace her roots at Case Western Reserve University all the way back to the 1940s when her grandfather was a student at Case Institute of Technology.

Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters-Friedman recently won the Seymour J. Pollack Distinguished Achievement Award at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's annual meeting in Chicago. The award is given to forensic psychiatrists who have made distinguished contributions to the teaching and educational functions of forensic psychiatry.

Third-year law students at Case Western Reserve University School of Law take part in an intensive real-world experience during their capstone courses. 3L Olivia Cobb is undertaking a full-time, self-arranged capstone with Diné be’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahiim, otherwise known as DNA People's Legal Service in Window Rock, Arizona.

Writing is an essential skill for lawyers, and it is the cornerstone of CWRU’s Legal Writing, Experiential Learning, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) Program.

Joseph Custer, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law School's Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, was recently acknowledged as a Pinnacle Life Professional within Continental Who’s Who.

The law school’s Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program offers students an experiential component taught by adjunct professors who are practicing attorneys.

Dr. Amy Acton, former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, delivered the 2023 served as the Law-Medicine Center’s 2023 Schroeder Scholar in Residence. Her lecture was entitled “The Leader We Wish We All Had Is YOU: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr.

The Ben C. Green Law Library was gifted the Judge Charles R. Richey papers in the late 1990s. The gift had a twenty-five-year moratorium placed on his papers, which was lifted during the pandemic. The law library is now organizing the documents and digitizing the most essential case files.