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Animal abuse as a pretext for interpersonal violence
The federal government recently passed a bill making it a felony to torture, abuse and/or neglect animals. Violating the law carries up to a seven-year prison sentence. But what defines “abuse and neglect” is now up for debate. A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University…
Lead vacate orders largely ignored in Cuyahoga County
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Webb Hooper Selected as Deputy Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center thanks Monica Webb Hooper, PhD for her leadership and dedication to our mission since joining the Center in 2016. The Cancer Center is pleased to announce that in March, Dr. Webb Hooper will assume the role of Deputy Director…
CWRU's International Law Program Ranked in the Top 10 in 2020
For the third year in a row, Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s International Law Program was ranked among the top in the nation, with an A+ rating, according to the Winter 2020 issue of PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist. View the ranking, which was based on the…
Homelessness just ‘one of the concerns’ when someone is evicted
A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University analyzed five years’ worth of eviction data from the Cleveland Housing Court and spent several weeks in court interviewing those who were evicted. They found that the threat of homelessness is just one of the worries for those losing their…
What Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy Reminds Us
Last week we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, as the turbulent decade of the 60’s drew to a close. During that decade a state governor physically blocked entrance of black students to the state university; civil rights workers were murdered by a group that…