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Andrew McGirty wins second place in AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition
Case Western Reserve University School of Law student Andrew McGirty is the second place winner of the Ninth Annual AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition. McGirty submitted the paper: Cracking Causation: The Need for a Workable Link Between the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims…
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CWRU School of Law takes second place at the the New England Hockey Arbitration Competition
In June, CWRU School of Law's team of rising 2Ls Benjamin Collado, Anthony Corigliano and Lucas Van Dyke, competed in the annual The New England Hockey Arbitration Competition, hosted online by Western New England School of Law in Massachusetts. After a string of victories, the CWRU team lost a…
CWRU Law professor cited by the Supreme Court
Erik Jensen has done it again. The CWRU School of Law emeritus professor was cited by both the U.S. Supreme Court majority and dissent in the case of Moore v. United States, issued on June 20, 2024.  Providing essential historical and doctrinal foundation, Jensen's tax law treatise, "The Taxing…
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Passing the torch: CWRU law deans step down after a decade
After a decade spent steering the School of Law from recovery to resurgence, co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have chosen to step down from their leadership roles this summer. When the two first became co-deans in the fall of 2013, the law school faced declining enrollments, financial…
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Case Western Law Review publishes articles from the Leet Business Law Symposium
In November, the Business Law Center sponsored the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Corporate Law and Private Ordering. The symposium featured keynote speaker Jill Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics…
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Andrew Geronimo moderates conversation with Jodi Rudoren
On Friday, May 17, 2024, First Amendment Clinic Director Andrew Geronimo moderated a conversation with Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Jewish news outlet the Forward, at the City Club of Cleveland. Geronimo and Rudoren engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the need for rigorous…
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Ribbon cutting celebrates renovated faculty meeting room
At the start of their last monthly faculty meeting as co-deans on June 13, Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf celebrated the completion of the renovation of the faculty meeting room with a ribbon cutting ceremony.  With gifts from Roe Green, George and Stephanie Simon, and the law firms of Elk & Elk,…
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LLM Program named to International Jurist Magazine Honor Roll
The LLM program at Case Western Reserve University was recently named to the International Jurist Magazine’s LLM Honor Roll. This distinction places our program within the top 30 in the United States among over 100 law schools open to foreign attorneys.  Practicing law in a global society demands…
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CWRU School of Law mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Calvin Sharpe
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Calvin Sharpe, who died May 12, 2024 in Arizona after a long illness. Sharpe was the Galen J. Roush Professor Emeritus of Law; before holding the Roush Chair, he was the John Deaver…
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Ohio State professor named next dean of CWRU School of Law
President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Joy K. Ward have announced that Paul Rose, associate dean for strategic initiatives at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, will begin as dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law July 1, pending Board of Trustees approval next…