Business, Law + Politics

On Feb. 15, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted renowned climate law scholar Rob Verchick for a talk on his new book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. Verchick is the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law and faculty…

Case Western Reserve University School of Law student Andrew McGirty is the second place winner of the Ninth Annual AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition. McGirty submitted the paper: Cracking Causation: The Need for a Workable Link Between the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims…

In June, CWRU School of Law's team of rising 2Ls Benjamin Collado, Anthony Corigliano and Lucas Van Dyke, competed in the annual The New England Hockey Arbitration Competition, hosted online by Western New England School of Law in Massachusetts. After a string of victories, the CWRU team lost a…

Erik Jensen has done it again. The CWRU School of Law emeritus professor was cited by both the U.S. Supreme Court majority and dissent in the case of Moore v. United States, issued on June 20, 2024.  Providing essential historical and doctrinal foundation, Jensen's tax law treatise, "The Taxing…

In November, the Business Law Center sponsored the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Corporate Law and Private Ordering. The symposium featured keynote speaker Jill Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics…

On Friday, May 17, 2024, First Amendment Clinic Director Andrew Geronimo moderated a conversation with Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Jewish news outlet the Forward, at the City Club of Cleveland. Geronimo and Rudoren engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the need for rigorous…

At the start of their last monthly faculty meeting as co-deans on June 13, Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf celebrated the completion of the renovation of the faculty meeting room with a ribbon cutting ceremony.  With gifts from Roe Green, George and Stephanie Simon, and the law firms of Elk & Elk,…

Eran Weber joined Weatherhead in June as communications director.  She brings more than 20 years of experience supporting a wide variety of brands working at advertising agencies. Get to know about her: What makes me excited to join Weatherhead: The landscape of higher education continues to…

The LLM program at Case Western Reserve University was recently named to the International Jurist Magazine’s LLM Honor Roll. This distinction places our program within the top 30 in the United States among over 100 law schools open to foreign attorneys.  Practicing law in a global society demands…

Experiential learning provides graduate students with real-world projects in their field of study. Combine these hands-on opportunities with the chance to reduce carbon emissions, and students can become true changemakers.  This past semester, MBAI students were able to oversee such a…