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Law’s Doug Smits receives Skadden Fellowship
Doug Smits, third-year student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was recently awarded the Skadden Fellowship. This prestigious two-year program, which is given to 20-25 recipients annually, provides funding for pursuing public interest projects related to civil legal issues. …
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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…
March 15, 2013
By the time he was 16, Juscelino Colares knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. The only difference between Colares and many other teenagers with the same dreams? He actually started law school then. Colares grew up in Brazil, where he started college at the age of 16. Law is an…
March 12, 2013
Case Western Reserve’s health law program leapt to fifth in the nation and pediatrics climbed to 14th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate and professional school rankings released Tuesday. Those gains, coupled with a seven-point jump, to 30th, for the Weatherhead School of…
March 01, 2013
For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He…