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May 08, 2024
Jessica Chapman chose to complete her capstone requirement at the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Policy Section in Washington, D.C. Extremely active in the international law community at Case Western Reserve, Chapman moved to the nation’s capital for a semester to try out a…
May 06, 2024
Talk about “March Madness”! “When it comes to mock trial and moot court, Case Western Reserve University School of Law is the equivalent of an elite NCAA basketball program,” said Co-Dean Michael Scharf. Based on the overall success of its nine mock trial and moot court teams, Case Western…
May 03, 2024
Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law at the School of Law, was reappointed to serve on the U.S. Roster of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) Binational Trade Dispute Panelists through 2025. The USMCA Secretariat is administering 13 North American…
May 01, 2024
On April 10, the Center for Business Law hosted a public lecture featuring Mitu Gulati from the University of Virginia School of Law. During the talk, he presented a paper co-authored with Irving Arturo De Lira Salvatierra and Michael Bradley from Duke University, Fuqua Business School on the topic…
April 29, 2024
On April 5, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy offered her advice on best oral argument practices to first-year law students—just in time to help them prepare for their own simulated oral arguments in LLEAP, CWRU School of Law’s required, year-long legal research, writing and…
April 26, 2024
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools. Based on its collective specialty rankings, Case Western Reserve University School of Law ranked 42nd best in the nation. That’s up ten places from its #52 specialty ranking last year.…
April 25, 2024
Towards the end of her 2L year, Tiffany Johnston received some unexpected but welcome news—she was pregnant. “I’ve been told since I was 16 that it would be nearly impossible for me to have a child naturally,” Johnston said. “We originally thought it might have been cancer, but she turned out to…
April 25, 2024
On April 21, 2024, students and faculty gathered at a local restaurant to celebrate the publication of volume 34 of Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine and all of the student editors’ hard work. Health Matrix is currently ranked #3 among 57 journals worldwide that are included in the category of…
April 24, 2024
In the law school’s Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program, practicing attorneys teach a simulation component in each course. Holly Marie Wilson is one of three such adjunct professors who leads simulations in Melissa Ghrist’s LLEAP 3 –…
April 22, 2024
The Yemen Accountability Project is proud to announce the publication of its fifth white paper, Gender Based Violence and the Yemen Civil War. The conflict in Yemen has brought about widespread suffering and devastation, with millions of civilians caught in the crossfire. However, women and girls…