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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 19, 2019
Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Center for
Business Law and Regulation will host “Is the Trump Administration
Deconstructing the Administrative State?” Thursday, March 28, at 4:30 p.m. in
the law school’s Moot Court Room (A59). The Trump Administration entered office with a broad…
March 18, 2019
$1 million federal grant seeks to aid inmates re-entering society
People who re-enter society from prison with unresolved issues are more likely to commit more crime and head right back to jail, according to government statistics. A new partnership between the Case Western Reserve University…
March 12, 2019
Kelvin Smith Library and the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
will welcome Travis McDade, the curator of law rare books and associate
professor of library service at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana,
to campus for a talk. McDade is the country’s foremost expert on crimes against
rare…
March 01, 2019
Michael Scharf, co-dean of the School of Law, director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the Joseph C. Hostetler - BakerHostetler Professor of Law, gave a presentation to the United Nations on why international law must quickly develop to cover new war crimes and forms of…
February 26, 2019
Aaron Perzanowski Copyright law is meant to encourage creativity and the advancement of cultural and scientific progress. It is vitally important to innovation, creativity and scholarship. Case Western Reserve University community members are invited to join Aaron Perzanowski, professor of law at…
February 15, 2019
Erik M. Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, assessed 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s proposed national wealth tax in an op-ed for City Journal. The article, titled “Warren’s Folly,” illustrates the ways in which Warren’s proposed tax—on wealth, not income—may be…
February 11, 2019
Post-Graduate Planning & Experiential Education will host a lecture with Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics. She will present “(Un)Civil Denaturalization and the Immigration Crackdown.” The…
February 07, 2019
Case Western Reserve University students and employees who are interested in furthering their education are encouraged to attend an informational session on the School of Law’s Master of Arts in Financial Integrity. The information session will be held Monday, Feb. 11, at noon at the School of…
January 14, 2019
Join Case Western Reserve University’s Health and Human Trafficking Law Clinic and Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution (S.O.A.P.) for an informational session about human trafficking. Two sessions will be held in January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The sessions will be…
January 04, 2019
In an op-ed for USA Today, Juscelino F. Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and professor of political science, cited reasons why the United States’ strong economy is likely slowing. His article was titled “Hey, Fed, the economy is slowing down.” Colares wrote about why…