Business, Law + Politics
October 16, 2023
Overcoming political polarization will be necessary to enact meaningful policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risk of climate change. This was the message the University of Colorado’s Professor Matthew Burgess presented in his lecture “Depolarizing Climate Change in the United…
October 16, 2023
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. Three of…
October 13, 2023
Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) students enrolled in the school of law recently took a day trip to the oldest state park in the U.S.—Niagara Falls. “Our students get an excellent legal education, but their experiences outside the classroom have an equal impact on their…
October 11, 2023
The Honorable Shalanda H. Baker, director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, joined the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law for a conversation on her work promoting and overseeing the federal government’s energy justice initiatives. Prior to…
October 10, 2023
In September, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted a group of interdisciplinary scholars for a workshop on “Permitting the Future.” This workshop examined the legal and economic aspects of permitting and review requirements for new technologies, infrastructure and development,…
October 10, 2023
Q&A with Cassandra Robertson, Faculty Director of the Program The Online Part-Time JD program (accepting applications now for fall 2024 start) is under the direction of Cassandra Robertson, John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law, who has developed expertise in online learning. Here,…
October 06, 2023
The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association podcast, My BarStory, recently interviewed Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf for the latest episode of their series about Northeast Ohio's most distinguished legal leaders. The co-deans have worked…
October 06, 2023
The idea of purchasing an existing company and then optimizing it to grow is one Jack Rafoth thinks about often. This process, also known as entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA), is a strategy to become a business owner by acquiring a company, where an entrepreneur seeks the support of…
October 06, 2023
Hard work, determination, a rigorous mindset, attention to detail and group effort. Those are just a few of the qualities it took for the Case Western Reserve University Baja SAE team to bring home first place at the most recent competition—shattering university records. “It means everything,”…
October 05, 2023
Sharona Hoffman and her co-author, Andy Podgurski (Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering), have published an article entitled “The Patient’s Voice: Legal Implications of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.” The Article, which appears in the Yale Journal of Health, Policy, Law and…