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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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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
October 01, 2015
This year, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate 23 classes whose graduation years end in zeros and fives, giving each class the chance to reunite. See a full list of reunion events at case.edu/alumni/homecoming/.
Some reunion events include:
Law School’s All Alumni Reception and Reunion...
September 25, 2015
Cassandra Burke Robertson, professor of law, the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, recently has had numerous works published, including:
“Low Sanctions, High Costs: The Risk to Democratic Liberty,” 66 Florida Law Review Forum31 (201...
September 25, 2015
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, was busy earlier this month giving presentations throughout the Cleveland area.
On Sept. 2, Adler spoke on King v. Burwell to a Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumn...
September 23, 2015
Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, will deliver The Law-Medicine Center’s Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Thursday, Sept. 24, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Court Room.
Northup’s lecture will be titled “Sneaking Around the ...
September 17, 2015
The School of Law will host a lecture on “Social Media in the Workplace” Thursday, Sept. 17, from 4:30 to 5:30, in the school’s moot courtroom (A59). The event will also be webcast live.
Margaret J. Grover (LAW ’83), attorney at law, will give the talk, which is the Dean’s Distinguished Alumni Lect...
September 11, 2015
Jessie Hill, associate dean for academic affairs and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, was active as a presenter this past summer, speaking on a range of health law-related topics.
In May, she participated at the Conference on Law, which was hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Po...
September 09, 2015
Sexual assault on college campuses is a major hot-button topic in America. While the issue presents difficult policy questions, it also implicates the Constitution in several interesting and intersecting ways.
To address this topic, the annual Constitution Day forum will feature a discussion titled...
September 03, 2015
The next one-hour broadcast of Talking Foreign Policy occurs at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf and the program’s panelists will consider the Obama Administration’s nuclear accord with Iran. Congress is expected to debate it soon.
Speakers o...
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August 31, 2015
Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty member Ayesha Bell Hardaway began reparations research as CWRU law student
This year marks the 150-year anniversary of the abolition of slavery in America. Over the years, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to secure reparations for A...
August 21, 2015
Case Western Reserve President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf as deans of the School of Law. The two have led the school on a temporary basis since the fall of 2013; since then, the school has made signifi...