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2024 LEET Symposium: “Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy”
The 20th century has witnessed the de-verticalization of production and the rise of collaborative agreements in both the biopharma and manufacturing sectors. Prior scholarship has led to a rich inquiry into these collaborations with different explanations for their governance and contracts. Some…
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Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary discusses federal land and energy management
On Sept. 19, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted Deputy Assistant Secretary Kati Kovacs from the U.S. Department of the Interior to discuss how federal agencies navigate the rulemaking process. Kovacs is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals…
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School of Law convenes experts to prepare report on updating the Geneva Conventions
On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, 29 leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University School of Law to discuss whether there is a need to strengthen the Geneva Conventions to address the…
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CWRU’s Michael Scharf leads team to prepare Ukrainian judges and prosecutors to try environmental war crimes and ecocide
In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, destruction of the environment has not just been an indirect result of the fighting; Russia has purposely targeted the environment to demoralize the Ukraine population. The Ukraine government has thus made the prosecution of environmental war crimes…
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Student Spotlight: Xiaorui Han
Xiaorui Han’s journey into law began with a personal mission: protecting her father’s business rights. What started as a family endeavor quickly grew into a passion for legal analysis and logic, leading her to the pursuit of an LLM degree at Case Western Reserve University. Now an SJD candidate…
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Sharona Hoffman publishes “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health”
Professor Sharona Hoffman published a new article in the Boston College Law Review entitled “Employers and the Privatization of Public Health.” The article focuses on the role of employers in public health and argues that they constitute increasingly important actors in the U.S. public health…
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3L Kaitlyn Booher elected student leader of concurrent degree program in Spain
Every year, a half-dozen third year law students take advantage of CWRU’s unique concurrent degree program to obtain a foreign LLM at one of our prestigious foreign partner universities in London, Madrid and Paris. The year abroad double counts as the third year at CWRU, earning the student both…
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CWRU Entrepreneurship Skills Lab Series workshop: Intellectual Property Venture Clinic
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a CWRU Entrepreneurship Skills Lab Series workshop on intellectual property with Maria Ianiro and Matthew Rossman, at the Intellectual Property Venture Clinic. They will discuss the clinic Thursday, Oct. 31, from noon to…
Externship Spotlight: Annabelle Lincoln spends fall semester working at NASA Glenn Research Center
3L Annabelle Lincoln’s interest in patent law recently led her to an externship with NASA Glenn Research Center, where she says she is “living her dream!” Post-graduation, Lincoln hopes to work as a space law attorney or aerospace focused patent attorney. Keep reading to learn more about her…