Business, Law + Politics

Last weekend, two of our BLSA Mock Trial teams competed at Midwest BLSA Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition. Team Purple (consisting of 1L Jordyn Dawson, 1L Lydia Abraham, 2L Yaninna Sharpley-Travis and 3L Aanya Myrie Silburn) and Team Black (2L Jayda Rogers, 2L Obasi Ndukuve, 1L Caren…

As with many business startup clients, CWRU Law School’s Community Development Clinic’s representation of social capitalist Joe Black began with a straightforward request: “Can you help me form a nonprofit organization?” Black is a driving force behind a program with an innovative approach to…

Economics undergraduate Katie Merritt knew she wanted to apply her academic interests to help build a more sustainable world—but how? When she heard about the ThinkImpact Social Entrepreneurship Program—run by the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and Veale Institute for…

The Weatherhead Student Success team has set ambitious goals to find intern and international placement opportunities for students in the school's MBA, Master of Accountancy, Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence, Master of Finance, and Master of Supply Chain Management programs. These…

Weatherhead’s Center for Family Business will be hosting its next program for Northeast Ohio family businesses “Leading the Family Business, Working on the Future” featuring Patricia Angus. Ms. Angus, has provided strategic and legal advice to global families and firms with multi-generational…

Bloomberg Law recently announced the finalists in its Law School Innovation Program. The program, which is in its second year, recognizes law schools and their faculty and staff that have implemented and led innovative programs into their curricula that advance new methodologies and approaches to…

On Jan. 22, Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosted Rear Admiral and Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Coast Guard, Richard Batson (LAW ‘02) for a lecture on the U.S. Coast Guard and Maritime Governance. Rear Admiral Batson spoke to a packed room about how the U.S.…

The 35th Annual Weatherhead 100 Awards Ceremony was held on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Over 740 attended the event, and 149 companies from Northeast Ohio were recognized and celebrated as the fastest-growing companies based on revenue from 2018-…

How to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) with the organization’s human intelligence to drive innovation and operational efficiency? This is the question businesses around the world are grappling with today as a result of the rapid expansion of AI. On March 1st, the Weatherhead School…

2L Jane Wiertel spent last summer working as a legal intern for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In her capacity at the Pulitzer Center, Wiertel worked at the intersection of journalism and the law, investigating and reporting on several legal issues facing the nation and world. The…