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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.
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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News
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May 17, 2023
At Case Western Reserve University, our students excel in research, academics, athletics and in the community.
This week, we will celebrate the accomplishments of about 2,500 graduates. It would be impossible to comprehensively describe all of their contributions, but we caught up with a graduatin...
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May 15, 2023
It’s a common problem in inner-city neighborhoods: An elderly parent dies, but the family home was never legally transferred to relatives.
The result is one form of what is known as a “tangled” title. Without a clear title—one in which ownership is clearly established—residents often encounter road...
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May 11, 2023
Another win for the First Amendment Clinic! On April 20, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas denied a Motion to Authorize Discovery into the identities of anonymous commenters criticizing the Beachwood Chief of Police Katherine McLaughlin.
Chief McLaughlin and the City of Beachwood brought a ...
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May 11, 2023
Amid intense criticism from leading law and medical schools, magazine adjusts methodologies to emphasize outcomes—and delays final figures to help ensure accuracy
Case Western Reserve’s medical school slipped one notch—and the law school two—as U.S. News & World Report shared results for the last t...
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May 10, 2023
I study parents who kill their kids. There's one thing people don't understand about these cases.
HuffPost: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, weighed in on recent cases of parents who have murdered their child...
May 10, 2023
On April 10, the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, spoke about the environmental legacy of Justice William O. Douglas, both as a Supreme Court justice and citizen advocate for environmental conservation. Judge McKeown’s remarks drew upo...
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May 10, 2023
Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law Director Jonathan H. Adler’s latest book, Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution (Palgrave), explores the intersection of climate change policy and classical liberal political theory. Adler, also the Johan Verheij Memorial Pr...
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May 09, 2023
Every community faces its own challenges—and often, the struggles are shared across boundaries. In mid-April, Case Western Reserve University School of Law students explored three Cleveland-area communities to see in person how leaders grapple with pressing land-use challenges. Local planning expert...
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May 08, 2023
2L Maryam Mahboob was recently awarded the Real Property Law Student Scholarship from the Ohio State Bar Association’s Real Property Law Section, a $2,500 award that comes with a representative seat on the Real Property Law Section Council. In this role, award recipients have the opportunity to work...
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May 05, 2023
The GOP’s next move to block abortion rights is tinkering with direct democracy
Ms. Magazine: Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, said that the success of abortion rights ballot initiative campaigns has convinced gerrymandered, anti-abortion legislatures that ballot measure proces...