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September 28, 2017
The Office of Undergraduate Studies will welcome Judge David T. Matia to campus Friday, Sept. 29, during Community Hour (12:45–2 p.m.) in Sears Building, Room 356. Judge Matia, of the Cuyahoga County Drug Court, will present “Bad Medicine: The Nation's Opioid Epidemic.” He will discuss the…
September 20, 2017
The university community is invited to “The Defamation Experience,” an interactive play exploring race, religion, gender, class and law, with a twist: The audience is the jury. This event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University ballrooms B and C. A CWRU ID is…
September 15, 2017
When Ye “Duke” Li began boxing in China at age 15, he thought it would be something he’d do in his free time for a few years before college. But the sport became anything but a hobby. Instead, two years later, he won an amateur national championship in China, prompting the coach of the…
September 15, 2017
Universities that foster reasoned and thoughtful debate are vital to a thriving society. Since the passage of the Bill of Rights, Americans have enjoyed the right to free expression. Many forms of offensive speech are protected by the First Amendment, while obscenity and certain types of violent…
September 07, 2017
Agreement provides in-hospital legal guidance to patients and caregivers; experiential learning for law students Case Western Reserve University School of Law and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital (UH Rainbow) have formed a Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) to guide…
August 04, 2017
Next week, rising third-year law student Krithika Rajkumar (CWR ’14) could make history. She’s one of 29 finalists in the America’s Miss World pageant—and if she wins, she’ll be the first Indian-American to represent the U.S. in the global Miss World competition. Rajkumar, who was born in India…
July 27, 2017
In honor of what would have been John Quincy Adams’ 250th birthday on July 11, Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, wrote about the former president’s public service. His article, titled “John Quincy Adams set example for public service throughout his life,” was…
July 05, 2017
Strategies lawyers often use to prepare for a civil trial can drive up costs to clients and make those lawsuits more complicated and time-consuming than necessary, according to a Case Western Reserve University law professor. In a new research paper published in the Fordham Law Review, Case…
June 09, 2017
Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s LLM program ranked among the best in the country, according to rankings released by International Jurist. The program received an “A” rating in two categories: academics and school experience. CWRU’s LLM program offers four degrees: U.S. &…
May 26, 2017
Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and professor of bioethics, was appointed as a member of the Genomics and Society Working Group of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. The advisory council is part of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which…