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Law’s Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team earns regional championship title
Members of Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team recently earned first place at the Midwest Regional Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition regional championship. Those on the team were Doctor of Law (JD) candidates Jordyn Dawson…
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August 20, 2020
Professor Emeritus Morris G. Shanker passed away on August 18 at age 93. Professor Shanker, who joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1961 and served as Acting Dean of the law school in 1972, had a considerable reputation in the fields of commercial law,…
August 20, 2020
Ikechukwu Ekeke (LAW '16), a fellow in the law school's Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic and coach of the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team, was recently selected to The National Black Lawyers organization's "Top 40 Under 40 Black Lawyers in Ohio." Ekeke earned both Bachelor of…
August 18, 2020
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law will be among the few law schools in the country to offer first-year law students the flexible option to start in January, Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf announced. For the first time, the law school is also now accepting GRE scores from…
August 17, 2020
Case Western Reserve University School of Law will be among the few law schools in the country to offer first-year law students the flexible option to start in January, Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf announced today. For the first time, the Law School is also now accepting GRE scores…
August 14, 2020
Jonathan L. Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, opined on the arrest—and subsequent ouster—of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder following federal charges of corruption. His piece, titled “Ohio joins the big leagues of corruption,”…
August 14, 2020
Three faculty members collectively shared their thoughts on winning the war against the novel coronavirus—that’s now claimed the lives of more than 158,000 Americans. A big part of the solution is compulsory vaccination, wrote Stuart Youngner and Michael Lederman, both professors in the School of…
August 13, 2020
Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department nearly doubles stockpile of “less lethal” munitions after May 30 riot cleveland.com: Lewis Katz, the John C. Hutchins Professor Emeritus of Law, said that the use of “military gear” against protesters should have been the last resort during the protests in…
August 11, 2020
Donald Lampert, who taught Workers Compensation as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for 28 years, passed away on August 10, 2020 from a hemorrhagic stroke. He is survived by his wife, Patty and his son, Charles. Known by his friends as "The Professor," Donald…
August 07, 2020
Last summer, law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission, a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. It was her second internship abroad, and like her first, it was…
July 24, 2020
Ikechukwu Ekeke ('16), a fellow in the law school's Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic and coach of the Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team, was recently selected to The National Black Lawyers organization's "Top 40 Under 40 Black Lawyers in Ohio." Ekeke earned both Bachelor of Science and…