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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.
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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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June 20, 2013
Richard Gordon, professor of law, had two chapters, "Losing the War Against Dirty Money" and "Anti-Money Laundering Policies: Legal, Political, and Economic Issues," published in Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance: Past and Current Challenges. (Navin Beerarry, ed, 2013).
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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 wi...
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 ...
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May 31, 2013
Lynn T. Singer, deputy provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been named chairwoman of the Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section of the National Institute of Health's Center for Scientific Review. Her term begins July 1, 2013, and ends June 30, 2015.
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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 of...
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May 21, 2013
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is leading a Northeast Ohio team that is part of a $10 million March of Dimes project to help prevent preterm births. Greater Cleveland’s participants include University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital a...
May 17, 2013
Brian Gran, associate professor of sociology with a secondary appointment in law, recently appeared on WEWS NewsChannel 5 four times, giving his perspective on children’s rights in the Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight case.
In addition, he attended and participated in a discussion on ...
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May 16, 2013
Case Western Reserve University employees are encouraged to join the CWRU Walking Club, a group designed to help link people together from the area to increase fitness and support community causes.
The CWRU Walking Club is open to everyone—affiliation with the university or 121 Fitness is not requi...
May 11, 2013
Sienna White, a first-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, wants to better understand the failures that led to the Holocaust so she can work in her own career to prevent any repetition of such a horror.
White, 22, is one of 14 students from law schools nationally that the New York-b...