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November 13, 2024
Corey Whetzel (LAW '24) recently won the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s (ASPL) Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award. He was selected for his paper “No Way FDA, Let States Lead the Way on Expanding the Prescriptive Authority of Pharmacists,” which was published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law…
November 13, 2024
A native of Sierra Leone who enrolled in CWRU School of Law “because of its strong international law programs and excellent reputation,” George Shadrack Kamanda graduated from our Law School in 2022 while simultaneously earning a Master’s Degree in Public International Law from Oxford University in…
November 11, 2024
In October, professor Victor Flatt’s Environmental Law class was joined by Jay Pendergrass, the former Vice President and Current Senior Advisor to the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in Washington, D.C. During his over 3 decades at the ELI, Pendergrass has helped tackle numerous environmental…
November 07, 2024
On Oct. 16, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, a challenge to the EPA’s use of “generic” prohibitions in Clean Water Act permits. On Sept. 24, professor Jonathan Adler moderated a webinar previewing the arguments and…
November 06, 2024
The 20th century has witnessed the de-verticalization of production and the rise of collaborative agreements in both the biopharma and manufacturing sectors. Prior scholarship has led to a rich inquiry into these collaborations with different explanations for their governance and contracts. Some…
November 05, 2024
On Sept. 19, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted Deputy Assistant Secretary Kati Kovacs from the U.S. Department of the Interior to discuss how federal agencies navigate the rulemaking process. Kovacs is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals…
November 01, 2024
In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, destruction of the environment has not just been an indirect result of the fighting; Russia has purposely targeted the environment to demoralize the Ukraine population. The Ukraine government has thus made the prosecution of environmental war crimes…
November 01, 2024
On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, 29 leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University School of Law to discuss whether there is a need to strengthen the Geneva Conventions to address the…
October 30, 2024
Xiaorui Han’s journey into law began with a personal mission: protecting her father’s business rights. What started as a family endeavor quickly grew into a passion for legal analysis and logic, leading her to the pursuit of an LLM degree at Case Western Reserve University. Now an SJD candidate…
October 29, 2024
Professor Sharona Hoffman published a new article in the Boston College Law Review entitled “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health.” The article focuses on the role of employers in public health and argues that they constitute increasingly important actors in the U.S. public health…