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At Case Western Reserve University School of Law, our students, faculty, staff and alumni influence everything from health law to international law to public policy—all while learning, teaching and practicing legal education rooted in real-world impact. Discover our latest news in legal scholarship, advocacy, experiential learning, community impact and so much more.
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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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February 13, 2020
The School of Law’s international law moot court team went undefeated in the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Championship held Feb. 7-9. The group finished the weekend 4-0 and was the top seed out of 24 law schools after the preliminary rounds. The team received a Top 5 Best Brief Aw...
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February 11, 2020
It is widely recognized that publishing improves teaching. Scholarly writing enables professors to bring up-to-date information into the classroom and share their research on cutting edge developments with their students. We are happy to announce that our faculty has been ranked among the top in th...
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February 10, 2020
Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Jessup International Law Moot Court Team went undefeated over the weekend in the Chicago Regional Competition held Feb. 7-9, 2020. The team went 4-0 and was the top seed out of 24 law schools after the preliminary rounds.
The team received the award f...
February 07, 2020
When Professor Wendy Wagner of the University of Texas School of Law was working on her book, "Incomprehensible! A study of how our legal system encourages incomprehensibility, why it matters, and what we can do about it," she asked Professor Juliet Kostritsky, the director of CWRU law school's Cent...
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February 05, 2020
Case Western Reserve University law professor suggests consumers may need help managing technology ownership
Imagine
a future in which every consumer purchase is as complex as choosing a mobile
phone. What will ongoing service cost? Is it compatible with your other
devices? Can you move data and ap...
February 04, 2020
Surveys indicate that there is growing interest among prospective law students in public interest law, which includes work for the government, Legal Aid and other non-profits. This year, PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist, ranked Case Western Reserve University Law School the ninth-be...
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February 02, 2020
Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Distinguished University Professor and director of the Law-Medicine Center, present "The Promise and Peril of Human Genetic Engineering." The event will be held Friday, Feb. 7, from 12:45 to ...
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January 22, 2020
Congratulations to first-year law students Sierra Lipscomb and Makela Hayford for a fantastic finish at the 1L Law Student Diversity Case Competition hosted by the University of Cincinnati College of Law and Keating Muething & Klekamp.
Lipscomb and Hayford placed third out of 18 teams from eight tr...
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January 20, 2020
Professor Max Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently co-authored an article in the Pathogens and Immunity journal with Dr. Michael Lederman, titled, “Compulsory Immunization Protects Against Infection: What Law and Society Can Do.”
The article examines potential legal remedies to co...
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January 16, 2020
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, penned a piece about impeachment proceedings. Published in New York Daily News, Adler gave his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s conduct as it relates to impeachment.
Adler explained how impeachment is a serious process, and that poli...