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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.
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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles
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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
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April 06, 2018
After graduating with a psychology degree from Case Western Reserve University, Brooke Tyus didn't necessarily expect to return to the classrooms of her alma mater.
But nearly a decade later, that’s where she found herself—starting her second year of law school, after transferring from a part-time ...
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April 04, 2018
Prominent faculty members from the School of Law and Weatherhead School of Management will present “Unraveling the Affordable Care Act” Tuesday, April 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
About the lecture
With 2,700 original pages—and over 20,000 more pages of re...
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March 30, 2018
The School of Law’s student chapter of the Federalist Society and the Institute for Humane Studies will host a talk with David Randall, director of research for the National Association of Scholars.
Randall will present “Teaching History for Liberty” Monday, April 2, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Tinkham ...
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March 30, 2018
Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law, discussed recent legislation passed by the Ohio House of Representatives in December and now before the Ohio Senate.
The piece, written for cleveland.com and titled “Ohio resolution labeling campus criti...
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March 30, 2018
Ruqaiijah Yearby, associate dean of institutional diversity and inclusiveness at the School of Law, wrote a piece concerning the legality and effectiveness of requiring those receiving help from the Medicaid program to work. Yearby authored the article, titled “Medicaid Work Requirements: Are They I...
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March 30, 2018
Maureen Guirguis Kenny, co-founder and co-director of the Human Trafficking Law Clinic at the School of Law, wrote an article for Fortune titled “Why the New Sex-Trafficking Law Is a Promising, But Limited, First Step.”
The piece examines the newly instated Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) ...
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March 23, 2018
The Office of Undergraduate Studies will host Judge Kathleen Sutula for a talk titled “A Day in the Life of a Common Pleas Judge” today (March 23) from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356.
Judge Sutula, of Cuyahoga County's Court of Common Pleas, will discuss her career and judicial duties ...
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March 23, 2018
Add one more entry into Case Western Reserve’s list of efforts that U.S. News & World Report rates among the nation’s top 10.
Along with degree programs in nursing and social work that achieved lofty positions in the rankings released this week, the law school’s Health Law specialty moved up four p...
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March 07, 2018
Join the School of Law Thursday, March 8, from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in the school’s Moot Court Room (A59) for a breakfast presentation with executives from the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The presentation, which includes complimentary bagels and coffee for a...
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March 06, 2018
The Case Western Reserve School of Law Student Chapter of the Federalist Society will host Justice Pat DeWine of the Ohio Supreme Court for “Perspectives from the Bench” today (March 6) at noon in the School of Law’s Moot Courtroom (A59).
DeWine will speak on the role of the judiciary and his exper...