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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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February 07, 2017
The Stanton Foundation awarded a $112,000 grant to Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts to support its recently launched First Amendment and the Arts (FAA) project, a new law lab offering students curriculum and experience with the evolv...
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February 07, 2017
Case involves how government handled detentions after 9/11 terror attacks
Four students at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law can now say their experiences include preparing and filing an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief for the United States Supreme Court in a civil case inv...
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February 02, 2017
Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich named the School of Law’s Cassandra Burke Robertson one of four term-appointed commissioners on the Ohio State Council of Uniform State Laws.
Burke, professor of law and the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, will serve on the council until June 2018.
The cou...
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January 31, 2017
The next City Club @ Happy Dog event will address President Donald Trump’s executive order "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States."
A panel discussion, titled “Understanding the Executive Order on Immigration,” will feature two local legal scholars who will talk ...
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January 06, 2017
Juscelino F. Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, has three forthcoming articles. He also gave numerous presentations late last year.
Colares’ forthcoming articles:
“Not COOL: How the Appellate Body ...
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January 06, 2017
Richard Gordon, associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and professor of law, attended and gave presentations at three invitation-only conferences in December.
He attended a conference for 85 law enforcement officials from the Commonwealth Caribbean Dec. 8-9 in Port of ...
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December 15, 2016
Recent years have marked a dramatic transition from paper to electronic medical records. Simultaneously, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems allow for the creation of medical “big data”—massive collections of electronic data that can be used for medical research, public health initiatives and oth...
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December 12, 2016
New book exposes consumer caveats in an expanding digital economy
Buy a book at the bookstore and you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale.
But is that true with e-books or other digital goods you buy?
Retailers a...
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December 09, 2016
Timothy Webster, assistant professor of law and director of Asian Legal Studies, wrote an op-ed for the South Morning China Post about concerns with President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed foreign policies.
In his article, titled “Trump’s self-defeating vision of Fortress America must not become re...
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November 11, 2016
Aaron Perzanowski, professor of law, co-wrote an op-ed describing copyright implications of Telsa's license terms for self-driving cars.
He wrote the article, titled “Do you own the software that runs your Tesla?” and published in the LA Times, with Jason Schultz of New York University’s School of ...