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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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January 16, 2020
Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, wrote a piece about a visit by Hester M. Peirce, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner and a 1993 Case Western Reserve University alumna, to Cleveland last month.
In the piece, published in Forbes, Alon-Beck recalled Peirce’s discu...
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January 16, 2020
Juscelino F. Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law, wrote an opinion piece in USA Today discussing the trade negotiations between the United States and foreign entities.
In his article, Colares acknowledged President Donald Trump’s successful renegotiating of the agreement f...
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January 16, 2020
The upcoming broadcast of "Talking Foreign Policy," hosted by CWRU School of Law's Dean Michael Scharf, will take on the Iran crisis. The program will be broadcast on Jan. 30 at 9 a.m. and again at 9 p.m. in Cleveland on WCPN 90.3 FM. The program will also be available online at: ideastream.org/liv...
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January 10, 2020
When Laura Graham applied last year to serve as a student officer with the Yemen Accountability Project at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, she wasn’t planning to lead the effort.
But that’s exactly what James Johnson, director of the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office, had...
January 08, 2020
In 2013, Felipe Gomez was a promising engineering student at Case Western Reserve University with a big idea – increase fuel efficiency in jet engines through innovative use of plasma in the fuel injection process.
Leveraging the considerable university assets available to assist student entrepren...
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December 13, 2019
Every year, Forbes selects an elite group of high-achieving undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation to obtain a scholarship to attend its celebrated Forbes Under 30 Summit.
Among the invited students was a third-year School of Law student Justin Hill, president of the law school...
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November 15, 2019
Avidan Y. Cover, professor of law, and first-year law students Alicia Mallo and Leah Rothfel co-wrote an opinion piece published on cincinnati.com describing why the Supreme Court should not hold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program unlawful.
The article, titled "Deporting DACA...
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November 11, 2019
As students meticulously plan their schedules during course registration for spring semester, which begins today for undergraduates, there are a number of unexpected and interesting classes that may catch their attention. No matter the area of study, students can choose courses across a wide spectru...
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October 28, 2019
The School of Law will host David C. Dvorak, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of DeepThink Health Inc., for a talk Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom.
His talk is titled “Advancing Medicine with Big Data: A Digital Health Company’s Perspective on the Opp...
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October 18, 2019
On Sept. 27, the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Case Western Reserve University Adjunct Professor of Law James Johnson the chief prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. Since 2013, Johnson has been the director of the Case Western Reserve University School of La...