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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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March 30, 2016
The School of Law’s master’s program in patent practice is accepting applications for the 2016-2017 academic year. The program is designed to prepare students for careers as patent agents. Students must be eligible to sit for the patent bar exam, which requires an undergraduate degree in…
March 18, 2016
Jessie Hill, associate dean for academic affairs and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, contributed to the dialogue on abortion rights through various outlets over the past few months. In a February editorial for The Daily Caller, she wrote about the burden placed on women when “Targeted…
March 17, 2016
Ruqaiijah Yearby, associate of dean of institutional diversity and inclusiveness at the School of Law, will host a panel on “Police Reform: Why Respect for Difference Matters” Wednesday, March 23, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the law schools moot courtroom (Room A59). Videotaped images of individuals being…
March 16, 2016
Case Western Reserve placed three degree programs in the nation’s top 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of graduate programs released today. The university also saw its health law program stay in the top 10, and the medical school stay in the top 25. The Frances Payne Bolton…
March 11, 2016
The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law has awarded Timothy Webster, assistant professor of law, the Richard H. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law. Created in 2014 to honor Professor Richard M. Buxbaum, the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of…
March 08, 2016
Case Western Reserve University School of Law will analyze state and federal human trafficking laws in a daylong symposium that also will address how to prepare for an expected rise in human trafficking during this summer’s Republic National Convention (RNC). The “Human Trafficking Law Symposium,”…
February 26, 2016
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, participated in two events in New York City over a two-day period in January. At the 110th Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, he presented the paper “Of Kings to Come: The Future of Health Care Reform Still Remains in…
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,…
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…
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…