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5 questions with School of Law’s Carter Callender, Class of 2026
As graduation approaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, students look back on the experiences that shaped their time on campus—and ahead to the paths they’re about to begin. From discovering their academic interests to gaining hands-on experience through clinics, competitions and…
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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…