Publications + Presentations

Marixa Lasso, associate professor of Latin American history, recently presented in Cartagena, Colombia, at a conference celebrating the bicentennial of the city’s independence from Spain. The academic conference gathered historians from Colombia, Europe, the U.S. and Latin America who have researche...

Eli Reshotko, Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus of Engineering, was selected as the 2011 William R. Sears Memorial Lecturer at the University of Arizona. He gave the lecture Oct. 27 in Tucson. The William R. Sears Memorial Lecture Series celebrates the work and life of the late Bill Sears, a renowne...

Paul Giannelli, Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor in the School of Law and Distinguished University Professor, coauthored a chapter on forensic science in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The reference manual is published by the Federal Judicial Center and th...

Carrie Basas, visiting associate professor at the School of Law, presented “HIV Stigma” Oct. 25 at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an invited speaker by the health law organization and the university's Center for Ethics in Public Life. Additionally, her book, Lawyers, Lead On, ...

Michael Scharf, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, delivered a speech at the Cleveland City Club titled, “Is Terrorism Worth Defining?” on Oct. 26. Then on Oct. 28, he gave the keynote address at the Central States La...

Lawrence Mitchell, dean of the School of Law and Joseph C. Hostetler - Baker Hostetler Professor of Law, gave a lecture at the University of Montreal titled, “Financialism: The End of Capitalism.” His lecture was the introduction to a conference on “Risk, The Financial Crisis, and Corporate Governan...

Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, gave a presentation on genetic engineering and human evolution as part of a panel on “Human Enhancement: Philosophical, Theological and Empirical Considerations in Utilizing Te...

CaseEMS held its annual EMS Disaster Drill (MCI Drill) Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. The drill simulated an RTA bus crashing into a Greenie stop outside Tyler/Taft houses in the North Residential Village. CaseEMS responded with Case Western Reserve University Police, Cleveland Fire Department and Cleveland EM...

In the latest episode of Off the Shelf, William Claspy, humanities librarian and coordinator of library instruction at Kelvin Smith Library, interviews David J. Rothenberg, associate professor of musicology, about his book, The Flower of Paradise. The book examines the connection and intersection of...

Sharona Hoffman, professor of law and bioethics, gave a presentation titled “Legal and Ethical Issues of Computer Decision Support and Order-Sets” at the American Medical Informatics Association 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics in Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. She also provide...