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Recent News
March 11, 2015
Today, sports and law combine once more when Peter A. Carfagna, adjunct professor in the School of Law and Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, resumes “Representing the Professional Athlete.” This is the second offering of Carfagna’s massive open online course (MOOC), which is produced in partnersh...
March 10, 2015
Thanks to significant improvements in admissions selectivity and other factors, Case Western Reserve’s School of Law posted a five-point gain in this spring’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, to No. 59—the largest increase of any of the university programs assessed in 2015.
“Credit for this progr...
March 10, 2015
The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity will host a Power of Diversity lecture featuring Jessie Hill, associate dean of faculty development, research professor of law and the Laura Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar. Hill will present "Reproductive Rights or Reproductive Justic...
February 06, 2015
Cassandra Burke Robertson, professor of law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, now serves as chair of the Appellate Litigation Subcommittee for the American Bar Association. The subcommittee is part of the Civil Rights Litigation Committee within the ABA’s Section of Litigation....
February 06, 2015
Andrew Pollis, associate professor of law, was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure.
His term began Jan. 1....
February 06, 2015
Laura McNally-Levine, professor of law and co-director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, recently was elected to the executive committee of the Clinical Legal Education Association. She serves as secretary of the association, which exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamen...
February 05, 2015
In the next broadcast of Talking Foreign Policy, Michael Scharf, interim dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a panel of experts examine immigration reform in light of President Barack Obama’s recently announced executive actions to take effect this year.
Talking Foreign Polic...
February 04, 2015
Author Elaine Richardson will present “From PHD to Ph.D.,” at the second Gender, Youth and Social Justice Event: A Journey through Juvenile Justice, Policy and Education on Tuesday, Feb. 10, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Senior Classroom.
Her presentation will illustrate ...
February 03, 2015
Craig Nard, director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and Art at the School of Law, will address "Opportunities in Intellectual Property Law” Friday, Feb. 6, from 12:30 to 1:45 in Sears 356. He will discuss how IP law meshes with engineering.
The session is an initiative of the pre-law...
January 29, 2015
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, recently published “Climate Balkanization: Dormant Commerce and the Limits of State Energy Policy” in the Louisiana State University Journal of Energy Law and Resources as well as “The Halbig Cases: Desperately Seeking Ambiguity in Clear S...