Publications + Presentations

Over the summer, Michael Scharf, associate dean for legal studies and John Deaver Drinko – Baker and Hostetler Professor of Law, traveled to Libya to present on workshops on transitional justice in Tripoli, Misrata, Zawiya and Zuwara. During his work, from July 10 to 20, Scharf met with alumnus Farh...

Stuart J. Youngner, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics, recently co-edited a book on the practice of physician-assisted death in Amsterdam. The book, Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Assessing the Dutch Experience, is co-edited by University of Amsterdam’s...

Linda Ehrlich, associate professor of Japanese, will lead a discussion at the Cleveland Cinematheque Oct. 27, following the showing of the 1953 Japanese film Tokyo Story. The film, recently voted the greatest film of all time by the filmmakers who participated in the latest Sight & Sound magazine po...

Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, has recently published and presented on a variety of topics, ranging from climate change to the health care ruling. His recent article, “Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization,” was published...

Faculty and staff members at Case Western Reserve last week spoke in front of an audience of nearly 350 people at Severance Hall as part of the Gigabit Breakfast Club. The event combined 10-minute talks with live demonstrations to showcase “Ideas That Inspire—Initiatives That Matter.” This included ...

Associate Vice President for Research Suzanne Rivera and law and bioethics professor recently were invited to serve as guest bloggers for “Bill of Health,” a new blog created by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard University School of Law. The blog, ...

William Peirce, professor emeritus of economics, presented a paper, "Liberty, Property, and the Land Value Tax," at the 2012 meeting of the History of Economics Society. The annual conference was held June 25 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario....

The Supreme Court of the Seychelles, which is prosecuting cases of Somali pirates apprehended by various countries in the Indian Ocean, cited and quoted from a memo prepared by the Case Western Reserve University War Crimes Research Office in its path-breaking judgment in the case of The Republic v....

Ellen Landau, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, is in Australia taking part in a symposium on abstract expressionism at the National Gallery of Australia. Landau is one of four U.S. scholars invited to participate. Titled “Action. Painting. Now.” the symposium looks at the impact of...

Joao Maia Culminating two years of hard work by its lead organizer, macromolecular science and engineering associate professor Joao Maia, the International Rheology Congress was held last week in Lisbon, Portugal. Among the nearly 1,000 participants were seven Case Western Reserve University facult...