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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.
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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles
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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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March 17, 2020
Edited at 10:54 a.m.: This article has been updated to reflect nursing school rankings.
Case Western Reserve’s health-related programs kept their impressive positions in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings—and in some cases, improved upon them.
The university’s medical school maintained ...
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March 11, 2020
Government should step in to curb physician burnout, Case Western Reserve University researcher says
Physician burnout is a growing
concern within the profession, but it’s also a public-health issue because of the
potential to harm patients.
Now, in new published
research, a Case Western Reserve University law professor insists that
government—not just the medical profession—needs to step up to ad...
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March 05, 2020
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, weighed in on the proposed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) that would allow signatory states to allocate their electoral votes to the candidate who wins a plurality (not a majority) of the national popular vote.
Read Jen...
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March 05, 2020
After competing in five rounds at the regional competition, the Jonathan M. Ault Mock Trial Team advanced to the national championship in the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition for the second time in the past four years.
Case Western Reserve hosted this year's regional compe...
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March 04, 2020
Join the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences for a screening and discussion of “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality” on Wednesday, March 18, from 6:15 to 8 p.m. in the Mandel School’s Noble Commons.
“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality” follows Alabama public inte...
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March 02, 2020
Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries.
El Salvador is currently in the process of pro...
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February 27, 2020
On February 25, 2020, the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law hosted its first-ever alumni reunion at the Butcher and Brewer tavern in Cleveland. Nearly a hundred alumni and student editors gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Journal and hear remarks by its founder, Austi...
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February 20, 2020
Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published an article, “What Genetic Testing Teaches about Predictive Health Analytics Regulation.”
The paper argues that like genetic testing, predictive health analytics raise significant concerns about psychological harm,...
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February 20, 2020
On February 15, the CWRU Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team received the highest average score of the 10 competing teams in the EODID Athens Vis Pre-Moot competition. The team was represented by 3Ls Teresa Azzam and Kathleen Burke. This semester, the team will also compete in C...
February 14, 2020
Former FBI Director James Comey spent two hours with Adjunct Professors Jonathan Leiken and Caitlin Bell’s White Collar Crime students on Tuesday, February 11. Professor Leiken worked for Mr. Comey as an AUSA at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the two have remai...