Business, Law + Politics

If you were at the Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition this week, you may have seen our video tribute honoring the memory of Bob Sopko. For those who couldn’t be there—or who want to remember him again—we’re sharing it here, too. Bob was the heart and soul of our entrepreneurial community: a…

On April 8, the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship hosted the 2025 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition at the Sears think[box]. As usual, this year's finalists were quite an impressive group. Thank you to all of our judges and participants, and to all of our attendees and cheerleaders. We were…

Registration for Fall 2025 is underway and we are excited to highlight a few opportunities to take courses in entrepreneurship topics from our colleagues around campus! Check out our full list of courses in entrepreneurship: Undergraduate Courses Graduate Courses Digital…

The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with Case Western Reserve University School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive…

The Law-Medicine Center hosted a two-day conference on February 21-22, 2025, entitled “Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students.” At the conference, medical and legal experts described the challenges that physicians…

The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023). He is…

Somewhere between studying, attending classes and networking with employers, second-year law student Jack Anderson makes time to pursue another passion: baseball. As a six-year member of the Case Western Reserve University baseball team, Anderson has mastered the art of time management, carefully…

The Case Western Reserve University School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Louise McKinney, who died on Tuesday, March 18. McKinney joined the clinical faculty in 1989 after serving as the Director of the Clinical Education Programme at the University of…

Third-year law student Charles Pavelec was recently selected as the Sixth Circuit Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student for 2025. The award was presented on March 20 at a reception in Washington, D.C. “The Bankruptcy Code is really complicated and can sometimes seem like fake words made up by…

At its inaugural symposium in Montgomery, Alabama, the Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights appointed Ayesha Bell Hardaway, Director of the university’s Social Justice Institute and Professor of Law, and Bryan L. Adamson, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and the David L. and…