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Law’s Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team earns regional championship title
Members of Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team recently earned first place at the Midwest Regional Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition regional championship. Those on the team were Doctor of Law (JD) candidates Jordyn Dawson…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…