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Law’s Doug Smits receives Skadden Fellowship
Doug Smits, third-year student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was recently awarded the Skadden Fellowship. This prestigious two-year program, which is given to 20-25 recipients annually, provides funding for pursuing public interest projects related to civil legal issues. …
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
November 09, 2016
More legal representation planned for juvenile and adult sex trafficking victims A new round of state funding will allow a Case Western Reserve University School of Law effort to help victims of human trafficking, while raising public awareness about an international human-rights problem that is…
November 04, 2016
Over the course of the past few months, Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, has been actively involved in the law field. In September, he directed the “Environmental Law in the Administrative State” conference at George Mason University. While there, he also presented his…
November 04, 2016
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, soon will publish a paper and recently spoke about the intersection of law and health care and aging. Her paper, titled “Big Data and the Americans with Disabilities Act” will be published in Hastings Law in 2017. In addition, she recently gave…