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Three faculty members named Distinguished University Professors
Case Western Reserve University is home to exceptional faculty scholars across a wide range of fields. They drive innovation, collaboration and creativity, inspiring their students to do the same.Each year, in recognition of the important role faculty play at our institution, the university selects…
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September 02, 2020
Schools around the country are now in session, though they’re offering a patchwork of different learning models amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey Kadian, a second-year student at the School of Law, is taking a look at what the long-term impacts of these approaches are, especially for students who…
September 01, 2020
Program: LawYear: Second-year Schools around the country are now in session, though they’re offering a patchwork of different learning models amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bailey Kadian, a second-year student at the School of Law, is taking a look at what the long-term impacts of these approaches…
August 28, 2020
Just one year removed from graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and drawing, Sydney Slacas did not wait long to make an impression. Competing against 300 other entrants in the Artisphere art, music and culture festival in South Carolina, the just-turned-alum of the South…
August 27, 2020
While earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Clare Keonha Shin had her sights set on a career in law. But it was her work as a fashion model that pointed her in the direction of intellectual property law. “I was always fascinated with the idea that a brand, a mark, a symbol, a trait can have…
August 27, 2020
While earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Clare Keonha Shin had her sights set on a career in law. But it was her work as a fashion model that pointed her in the direction of intellectual property law. “I was always fascinated with the idea that a brand, a mark, a symbol, a trait can have…
August 26, 2020
Lauren Ammerman I spent the summer working in the housing unit at Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP) in Washington, D.C. NLSP is a civil legal services organization that represents low-income residents in the District of Columbia. Our aim this summer…
August 26, 2020
Deborah Turner-Johnson, a dedicated law school faculty support staff member for 13 years, passed away on August 19, 2020. She was 63. A website to post remembrances is available here. There, colleagues remarked about her smile, hearty laugh, wonderful stories and the fact that she touched "many…
August 21, 2020
The Northeast Ohio Scholars Strategy Network selected Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of The Law-Medicine Center, for its Amplify & Apply Grant Program. This grant is intended to support efforts to meaningfully connect Hoffman's expertise with relevant…
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…