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Law’s Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team earns regional championship title
Members of Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team recently earned first place at the Midwest Regional Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition regional championship. Those on the team were Doctor of Law (JD) candidates Jordyn Dawson…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
October 13, 2023
Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) students enrolled in the school of law recently took a day trip to the oldest state park in the U.S.—Niagara Falls. “Our students get an excellent legal education, but their experiences outside the classroom have an equal impact on their…