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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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October 14, 2019
Wheeler, a CWRU alum, joins more than a dozen nationally recognized environmental, legal experts at Oct. 18 symposium
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Case Western Reserve University alumnus, returns to campus as keynote speaker in a daylong symposium ...
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October 09, 2019
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law's
Institute for Global Security Law & Policy and the Social Justice Institute
will welcome Lynn Tramonte, founder and director of Ohio Immigrant Alliance,
for a discussion Thursday, Oct. 10, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law’s
Moot Courtroo...
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October 01, 2019
Members of the community can tune into WCPN 90.3 FM today (Oct. 1) from 10 to 11 p.m. to hear School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf on the next installment of “Talking Foreign Policy.”
“Talking Foreign Policy” is produced by Case Western Reserve
University in partnership with WCPN 90.3 ideastream. H...
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September 27, 2019
Research by Anat Alon-Beck, an assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, about unicorn companies was brought to the attention of the U.S. Congress. Renee Jones, of the Boston College Law School testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the topic Sept....
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September 27, 2019
Over the summer, second-year Case Western Reserve University
School of Law student George Kamanda returned to his native Sierra Leone for
the first time in nearly eight years. He came to the United States in March
2012 to join his mother and pursue higher education.
But his passion for his country ...
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September 26, 2019
Case Western Reserve University law professor Anat Alon-Beck makes a case for regulatory reform for tech startups worth more than $1 billion
Until just a few years ago,
many talented workers chose to hustle for a promising technology startup
company, often for lower pay, long hours and a challengin...
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September 06, 2019
For two weeks last spring, Quentin Sims flew back and forth
between Albany and Cleveland, alternating between taking exams as he completed
his first year of law school and playing in Arena Football League games with
the Albany Empire.
Last month, the team secured the Arena Football League
champion...
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August 23, 2019
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law,
provided analysis on a court’s decision to throw out a suit against President
Donald Trump, which claimed he had broken the emoluments clause.
NBC News published his piece, titled “Trump’s emoluments case win shows challenging him in the ...
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August 09, 2019
When Jaime Bouvier decided to try aerial circus acts nine
years ago, she wasn’t particularly good at it. In fact, she said it was a place
for her to be bad at something she enjoyed doing.
And, she noted, it helped give her a new perspective into
her law students.
She had only recently stepped aw...
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August 06, 2019
CWRU team will provide policy recommendations for balancing safety, innovation
While federal and professional regulatory systems monitor genetic-editing experiments in university and corporate labs, most research conducted outside of these settings lacks formal oversight.
Now, two Case Western Re...