Business, Law + Politics

Third-year law student Magda Phillips was recently selected by the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation to serve at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in the fall of 2023 as a Justice for All Fellow. Her project addresses the racial wealth gap by helping Black residents of Northeast Ohio achieve financ...

On Feb. 14, 2022, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf traveled to The Hague to present an Amicus (friend of the court) argument on the proper application of the insanity defense before the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Today (Dec. 15, 202...

By Youngjin Yoo, xLab faculty director In January 2022, the combined market capitalization of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta was over $6 trillion, each boasting over $1 trillion market valuation. At that time, these digital disruptors seemed unstoppabl...

The First Amendment Clinic is pleased to report that its client, Cleveland State University’s student newspaper The Cauldron, has been dismissed from a lawsuit brought by local restaurant Burgers 2 Beer. The restaurant alleged thatThe Cauldron tortiously interfered with its business expectancies and...

Satish Nambisan, the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management and professor of design and innovation, has been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers for cross-field impact by Clarivate. This distinction places Nambisan among an elite group of researchers, who are being r...

“I thought a leader was somebody who was authoritative and confident; someone who takes charge and makes the tough decisions.” In the past, Dr. Tania Markanian relied on this common image of what a leader should look like as a model for her own leadership style, even though it never felt like a nat...

Each year, the Weatherhead School of Management Department of Banking and Finance holds an award ceremony to recognize outstanding students in the categories of leadership and academic excellence. This year, Master of Finance program students Shawn Sun received the Student Leadership Award and Pavan...

On Tuesday, Dec. 6, CWRU President Eric Kaler joined Anthony Richardson, the President of the Gund Foundation, and law school Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf to rededicate George Gund Hall. A number of faculty, alumni, staff and students joined them to celebrate the historic milestone. The...

The Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosted 24 mock trial teams from across the country from November 11–13 in the annual Case Classic Mock Trial Competition. Case Classic is among the country's first Mock Trial competitions each year, and it is growing in prestige. This year's competi...

Major: Economics and a Master of FinanceMinor: Mathematics and FrenchYear: Class of 2023 Ester Muzychuk is a storyteller. But instead of words or pictures, her tools are numbers and graphs. Her latest endeavor? A role in telling the story of the Economic Report of the President. Each year, the ch...