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Kids, courts and care: How CWRU professor Eileen Anderson protects vulnerable youth across Ohio
When Eileen Anderson, director of education for Case Western Reserve University’s bioethics and medical humanities programs, first encountered the court system during a divorce, she learned about the role of a guardian ad litem—an individual appointed to represent a child’s best interest in legal…
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June 13, 2013
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, was one of six health law professors to be awarded a Scholars in Residence Fellowship by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Fellowship program is run by The Network for Public Health Law. Hoffman…
June 04, 2013
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Juscelino F. Colares’ recent research concludes global economic forces are pushing the United States and other countries toward a binding international environmental treaty. In a recent Journal of World Trade article, Colares investigated the…
May 30, 2013
Research by Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, was cited in Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ dissenting opinion in a case that produced a significant administrative law ruling. In City of Arlington v. FCC, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that courts should defer to…
May 24, 2013
Max Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, published, “The Pros and Cons of Practice Guidelines,” in Trial, this May, and “Enhanced Warfighters: A Policy Framework” in Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century. He also presented “Medical Practice Guidelines and the Legal Standard…
May 02, 2013
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, organized, moderated and spoke at a Case Western Reserve Law School symposium titled “Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients’ Rights and the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes.” The full-day…
May 02, 2013
Earlier this year, Avidan Cover, an assistant professor in the School of Law, moderated a discussion with Jose Antonio Vargas, author of My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, as part of the Town Hall of Cleveland Speaker Series. In addition, Cover’s paper, “Presumed Imminence: Judicial Risk…
April 28, 2013
Charles Korsmo, assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, recently presented at two conferences and has a paper forthcoming for publication. He presented his paper “Venture Capital and Preferred Stock” twice: March 5 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney…
April 27, 2013
Jaime Bouvier, assistant director of the academic and writing support program at the School of Law, recently published works and gave presentations around the world. Her article, “The Symbolic Garden: An Intersection of the Food Movement and the First Amendment” will be published in the Maine Law…
April 15, 2013
Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, recently had her paper, “Freedom of Contract in the Market for Professional,” selected for the Freedom of Contract colloquium. Along with the selection, she was awarded $5,000. The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Boston…
March 19, 2013
All members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend a talk with Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, Friday, March 22. Benza’s talk, titled “A View from the Death House,” will give an inside look at the complex issues surrounding capital punishment and…