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August 07, 2015
Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, filled the role of rapporteur for New Research for Effective Action at Paris and Beyond, a two-day event that was held during the Global Climate Policy Conference in New Delhi. The conference, which was held April 30-May 1, aimed to…
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve University’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the…
July 24, 2015
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on ethical issues in the medical field. At the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ Health Law Professors Conference in St. Louis on June 6, Hoffman…
July 24, 2015
Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published and presented on the intersection of law and medicine. He contributed a chapter titled “Captain American and Iron Man:…
July 17, 2015
Robert N. Strassfeld, professor of law, and Calvin Sharpe, the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation, contributed to the fourth edition of Understanding Labor Law. Strassfeld and Sharpe wrote the book with Douglas E. Ray, dean and professor of law at St. Thomas University School…
July 17, 2015
Earlier this month, Avidan Y. Cover, assistant professor of law and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, participated in the “Happy Dog Takes on the World” discussion on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Cover and Joshua Stacher, associate professor of political science at Kent State…
July 12, 2015
First-for-Ohio program seen as attractive career option for those with engineering or science academic background
Case Western Reserve University School of Law is launching a one-year master's in patent practice degree program this fall semester. A first of its kind in Ohio, the program is…
June 18, 2015
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, published, “Sometimes Unguided (or Maybe Misguided) Economic Substance Guidance,” in the Journal of Taxation of Investments, Winter 2015. Jensen also made several presentations within the last six months, including: Speaking on “‘Student’…
June 05, 2015
Ruqaiijah Yearby, the Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished Research Scholar, associate director of the Law-Medicine Center and professor of law, gave the keynote address for a Cleveland Office of Minority Health event in April. Yearby presented a talk, titled “Eradicating Injustice to Attain…
June 05, 2015
Earlier this year, Jessie Hill, the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and professor of law, gave multiple presentations on the topics of religion and reproductive rights. On March 3, Hill presented "Change, Dissent, and the Problem of Consent in Religious Organizations," at a faculty…