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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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,…
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…