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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…