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Recent News
February 26, 2016
UPDATE: As of March 2, this event has been cancelled.
The School of Law will host a public lecture with Lawrence Douglas, author of The Right Wrong Man, Wednesday, March 2, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the School of Law, Room A59.
His book, recently published by the Princeton University Press, chroni...
February 16, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will hold a panel discussion for undergraduate students Monday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
The Humanities@Work event will feature panelists explaining how their background in humanities impacted their eventual careers in law.
The panel w...
February 11, 2016
Combatting ISIS, coping with a complex China relationship and forming immigration policy have emerged as major issues among candidates in the 2016 presidential primaries.
In the next Talking Foreign Policy broadcast, Case Western Reserve University Co-Dean Michael Scharf and a panel of internationa...
February 11, 2016
Fueled by demand for senior anti-money laundering/financial crime-prevention professionals
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law is adding a new executive master’s degree program in financial integrity, inspired by increasing demand by financial institutions and government agencies for a...
February 10, 2016
Undergraduate Studies will sponsor a pre-law event Friday, Feb. 12, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356.
The event will feature lawyers working for the following major institutions:
University Hospitals
Case Western Reserve University
Legal Aid
The event will be of special inte...
February 05, 2016
Case Western Reserve graduate Jeff Rice (LAW ’75) will be wearing number 44 when he takes the field Sunday for Super Bowl 50.
But don’t look for him to be making plays—he’ll be watching them.
The Lyndhurst native is one of seven officials the National Football League named to work the field of its...
January 29, 2016
Robert Rapp, adjunct professor of law, presented at the 2015 Longbow Research Compliance Conference in Cleveland last month.
His lecture was titled "An Analyst Perspective on Tippee Liability for Insider Trading under the Federal Securities Laws in the Wake of U.S. v. Newman."...
January 26, 2016
A new mural in Case Western Reserve’s School of Law melds landmarks across Cleveland on a single canvas teeming with color.
But the 4-by-9-foot artwork does more than exhibit regional pride in the atrium of George Gund Hall. Given by the law school’s class of 2015 and crafted by Cleveland School of...
January 15, 2016
Health disparities scholar Ruqaiijah A. Yearby starts new role this month
Case Western Reserve University School of Law's first tenured female African-American professor has been named as the school’s inaugural Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness. Ruqaiijah A. Yearby, who joi...
January 15, 2016
Jessie Hill, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Law and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, was part of a team of law professors to put forth an amicus brief supporting the petitioners in Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, a U.S. Supreme Court case that is said to be the most important...