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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
July 19, 2019
Andrew Geronimo, director of the IP Venture Clinic, wrote a guest column in reaction to a recent letter House Speaker Larry Householder wrote that resulted in the cancellation of an LGBT event for teens at an Ohio public library. Geronimo's piece, "Memo to Larry Householder - the First Amendment…
July 19, 2019
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, explained Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council and its continued impact today. Adler's piece, "What's wrong with 'Chevron' deference is Congress," appeared in the National Review.
June 07, 2019
Michael P. Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law and the Joseph C. Hostetler – BakerHostetler Professor of Law, hosted an installment of his quarterly public radio show, “Talking Foreign Policy.” During the show, Scharf moderated a panel of experts on the topic of “Untangling the Yemen…
June 07, 2019
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a talk with
Michael P. Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law and the Joseph C. Hostetler –
BakerHostetler Professor of Law, titled “Syrian Use of Chemical Weapons and the
Changing Law of Humanitarian Intervention.” Scharf’s talk will be held Friday,…
May 17, 2019
This Sunday, May 19, approximately 2,000 Case Western
Reserve University students will take part in commencement ceremonies, beginning
with the university-wide
convocation at 9:30 a.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic
Center and followed by diploma
ceremonies throughout the…