Business, Law + Politics

In September 2023, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on “Permitting the Future,” examining the legal and economic aspects of permitting and review requirements for new technologies and environmentally desirable infrastructure and development. This...

The National Law Journal recently reported that the average starting salary for a first-year associate at the nation’s large law firms is $215,000. Cleveland is home to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, with its stre...

When Nyasha Machote walked across the stage in May 2025, he carried more than just a diploma—he carried the momentum of a startup poised to disrupt the healthcare access space. His journey into entrepreneurship began with an internship at LaunchNET, a TED Talk, and an inspiring community of student ...

Writing is an essential skill that lawyers use to communicate, advocate, and persuade. Legal writing is the cornerstone of CWRU’s Legal Writing, Experiential Learning, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) Program. The LLEAP Awards were established to recognize the hard work and dedication that it...

In February, Cathy Hwang presented "Purpose and Nonprofit Enterprise" as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Hwang is a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches, researches and writes about mergers and acquisitions, corpor...

CWRU School of Law recently held its eleventh celebration of faculty, an annual event to recognize the achievements and contributions of faculty members during the previous school year. The celebration included the presentation of endowed chairs to two faculty members, Eric Chaffee and Betsy Rosen...

Jessie Hill's article "Recentering the Pregnant Body: Moving Beyond the Medicalized Framework in Abortion Advocacy," is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. Hill argues that abortion rights advocates have long treated abortion as primarily a medical issue, while minimizing its other...

Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

In March, the Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet (JOLTI) and the Compliance, Risk Management and Financial Integrity Institute hosted the symposium "Exploring the AI Frontier: The Business World, Artificial Intelligence and the Law". This symposium explored the intersection of artificial in...

Artur Grabowski (CWR '07) is the founder of Extendify, a company focused on simplifying website creation within the WordPress ecosystem. He transitioned into the WordPress space after gaining valuable experience at Adobe and Automattic. Artur's entrepreneurial journey with Extendify has provided him...