School of Law
At Case Western Reserve University School of Law, our students, faculty, staff and alumni influence everything from health law to international law to public policy—all while learning, teaching and practicing legal education rooted in real-world impact. Discover our latest news in legal scholarship, advocacy, experiential learning, community impact and so much more.
Hero Type
Image
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.
Hero Type
Image
Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
Hero Type
Image
October 19, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host Leila Sadet, an author and law professor at Washington University, for a talk Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom (Room A59).
Sadet will speak about aspects of her latest book, The Forgotten Crime: Forging a Convention for ...
Hero Type
Image
October 19, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host the Trade Law Fall Update Friday, Oct. 20, from 8 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. This year’s event, held both in person (School of Law, Room A59) and virtually via Zoom, will focus on the themes of industrial policy, labor, geoeconomics and what they mean ...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
Joseph Custer, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law School's Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, was recently acknowledged as a Pinnacle Life Professional within Continental Who’s Who. Recognized for his contributions to the fields of education and law, this honor is based on Custer’s dedi...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
The law school’s Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program offers students an experiential component taught by adjunct professors who are practicing attorneys. Allison Smith Newsome (LAW ’19) has served as an adjunct professor in Matt Salerno’s...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
Dr. Amy Acton, former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, delivered the 2023 served as the Law-Medicine Center’s 2023 Schroeder Scholar in Residence. Her lecture was entitled “The Leader We Wish We All Had Is YOU: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Acton gave a first-hand account of se...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
Members of the Case Western Reserve University and local communities are invited to join the Social Justice Institute for an R+R (Research and Refreshments) session Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Public Library, Harvey Rice branch (11535 Shaker Blvd.).
During R+R sessions, so...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
The Federalist Society at the School of Law will host a talk by Keith Whittington from Princeton Thursday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in Gund Hall, Room 157.
In a talk titled “Under Attack? Academic Freedom in Higher Education,” Whittington will discuss academic freedom, and if it is threatened by the curr...
Hero Type
Image
October 18, 2023
The School of Law will host the annual Case Western Reserve University Law Review Symposium Friday, Nov. 3, from 9:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in Gund Hall, Room A59. The focus of this year’s event will be judicial conduct, ethics and reform.
Following a series of high-profile ethics inquiries and calls f...
Hero Type
Image
October 16, 2023
The Ben C. Green Law Library was gifted the Judge Charles R. Richey papers in the late 1990s. The gift had a twenty-five-year moratorium placed on his papers, which was lifted during the pandemic. The law library is now organizing the documents and digitizing the most essential case files. Three of ...
Hero Type
Image
October 16, 2023
Overcoming political polarization will be necessary to enact meaningful policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risk of climate change. This was the message the University of Colorado’s Professor Matthew Burgess presented in his lecture “Depolarizing Climate Change in the United S...