Business, Law + Politics
February 22, 2021
Several organizations rank law schools each year. Collectively, these organizations rank CWRU in a range from 56th to 72nd best law school in the nation (out of 204). In addition, some rank specialty programs, where CWRU particularly excels. Here are CWRU’s latest rankings from each organization,…
February 22, 2021
How the pandemic made blockchain technology even more relevant People used to routinely ask R. L. Shankar to explain blockchain technology. But, because of the pandemic, they're increasingly aware of its benefits. "The COVID-19 crisis has put the spotlight on the relevance of blockchain,"said…
February 22, 2021
CWRU’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team was victorious in the Midwest Regional Rounds of the prestigious Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition Feb. 3–5, which was held online. After competing in five rounds of competition over three days, the CWRU team came in first…
February 19, 2021
The Youth Engaged in Science (YES) Program, led by Nathan A. Berger, MD, kicked off its spring session with a new "Learn to Beat Cancer" cohort this past Saturday. Eight middle school students, their families and a middle school teacher joined a Zoom-based virtual classroom, where they learned the…
February 18, 2021
In a trend accelerated by the coronavirus, the law is increasingly technology-driven, from the way lawyers prepare cases to the way courts try them. In the Winter 2021 issue of PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist, Case Western Reserve earned an “A+,” ranking the school’s technology…
February 17, 2021
In early February, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Ault Mock Trial Team placed second out of 32 teams from across the country in the 13th annual Costello National Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition hosted by George Mason University School of Law. The CWRU team was also named…
February 17, 2021
Written by Youngjin Yoo On November 12, 2019, over 10 million families signed up for Disney's new digital streaming service on the first day of service. Given that 60 million families in the US (165 million worldwide) subscribed to Netflix after 12 years of operation, this was a remarkable…
February 16, 2021
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet (LAW ‘94) delighted the students in the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic when she joined a Zoom seminar session on Feb. 10. Dallet, whose judicial clerk Joseph Shell (LAW ‘20) co-teaches in the law…
February 15, 2021
Al Green, Veale Institute Entrepreneur-In-Residence, authored this piece about diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in the Northeast Ohio ecosystem. Read more here.
February 12, 2021
Case Western Reserve University researchers examine how the ‘bureaucratic burden’ of taking rapists off the streets can impede justice—often for society’s most vulnerable Samuel Little, the man the FBI called the nation’s most prolific serial killer, admitted last year to raping and killing 93…