Publications + Presentations

Dale Nance, the John Homer Kapp Professor in the law school, recently traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, to give a talk, titled “Why Resilience?” He presented at the International Conference on Quantitative Justice and Fairness, hosted by the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, May 22-24.

Could stem cells cure MS? The Scientist: A look deep in the inner-workings of mesenchymal stem cells points to hepatocyte growth factor as the mechanism that likely contribute to the cells’ healing effects. Case Western Reserve’s Robert Miller, PhD, whose 2009 discovery has laid the groundwork for…

School of Law Professor Calvin Sharpe completed editing the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution’s interdisciplinary symposium on Forgiveness, Reconciliation and the Law. The symposium features six articles on the intersection of science, philosophy, legal…

Michael Scharf, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, recently spoke on a panel titled “Establishment of a Special Anti-Piracy Tribunal: Prospects and Reality” at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar…

A multidisciplinary group of students will present at the seventh International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto May 17–19. The theme of this year’s conference is “Literary Journalism: The Power and Promise of Story.” The students—Alexis Parisi, Nicholas…

Three articles by School of Law professor Jessie Hill will be published in upcoming journals: “(Dis)owning Religious Speech” in the George Mason Law Review, “What is the Meaning of Health? Constitutional Implications of Defining ‘Medical Necessity’ and ‘Essential Health Benefits’ Under the…

Jonathan Adler, School of Law professor and director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, recently published two papers and presented at six events around the country. His papers were “Water Rights, Markets and Changing Ecological Conditions,” which appeared in Lewis & Clark Law…

Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor of law and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published two academic works: the article “Breaking the Cycle of ‘Unequal Treatment’: Using Health Care Reform to Address Racial Disparities in Health Care” in the University of Connecticut Law Review,…

School of Law assistant professor Andrew Pollis recently participated as a panelist for the second Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Court Institute, sponsored by the Akron Bar Association and the University of Akron School of Law. The panel’s topic of discussion was “Federal Appellate Practice.” In…

Kandice Kottke-Marchant, chair of the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, was a featured panelist at Smart Business's Perspectives '12: Women Who Excel event April 13.…