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Highlighting the Appellate Practice Program
For students interested in appellate practice, this fall has offered exciting opportunities right here on campus. LLEAP 3 Appellate Practice The inaugural LLEAP 3 Appellate Practice course is well underway with second-year students completing appellate briefs and preparing for oral arguments in a…
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CWRU School of Law bestows Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice on Leila Sadat
On Oct. 25, Leila Sadat of Washington University School of Law delivered the 2023 Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights and received the Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice. The author of several award-winning books on human rights and…
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5 questions with law student Francesca Veres, president of the Graduate Student Council
Francesca E. Veres can trace her roots at Case Western Reserve University all the way back to the 1940s when her grandfather was a student at Case Institute of Technology. When Veres was a child, he encouraged her to attend Case Western Reserve University, advice she ended up taking when she…
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Susan Hatters-Friedman Receives Distinguished Achievement Award
Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters-Friedman recently won the Seymour J. Pollack Distinguished Achievement Award at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's annual meeting in Chicago. The award is given to forensic psychiatrists who have made distinguished contributions to the teaching and…
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5 questions with … Francesca Veres, president of the Graduate Student Council
Francesca E. Veres can trace her roots at Case Western Reserve University all the way back to the 1940s when her grandfather was a student at Case Institute of Technology. When Veres was a child, he encouraged her to attend Case Western Reserve University, advice she ended up taking when she…
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Investment crowdfunding talk with Andrew Schwartz
“Investment crowdfunding” is a new and inclusive form of online venture capital market open to all investors, both retail and accredited. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share of stock, which would be an illegal public offering of unregistered securities—absent the special exemption…
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Student’s capstone offers hands-on experience with under-resourced, low-income clients
Third-year law students at Case Western Reserve University School of Law take part in an intensive real-world experience during their capstone courses. 3L Olivia Cobb is undertaking a full-time, self-arranged capstone with Diné be’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahiim, otherwise known as DNA People's…
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Inaugural LLEAP Writing Awards Recognize Exemplary Student Work
Writing is an essential skill for lawyers, and it is the cornerstone of CWRU’s Legal Writing, Experiential Learning, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) Program. This is the first year that students with the top paper in each LLEAP course during the 2022-2023 school year will receive an award…
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Wrongful Convictions Club guest speaker: Laurese Glover
The Wrongful Convictions Club at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a talk with Laurese Glover, a man who spent 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 1995, at just 16 years old, Glover was wrongly convicted of a murder in East Cleveland. The Ohio Innocence…
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“The Forgotten Crime: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity”
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…