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Recent News

Student Spotlight: Olivia Kuenzi
Olivia Kuenzi was recently selected for the Ms. JD 2023-2024 3L Fellowship cohort, which promotes mentoring and professional development for future female attorneys. The one-year program is designed to foster a commitment to excellence in a new generation of women attorneys, inspired by the…
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“The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision, Explained”
Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a webinar about the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmative action decision in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. (SFAI) v. President and Fellows of Harvard and SFAI v. University of North Carolina. The webinar, titled “The Supreme Court Affirmative…
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Fred Gray Awarded the 2023 ABA Medal
The American Bar Association will award the 2023 ABA Medal, the association’s highest honor, to Fred D. Gray (LAW ‘54), described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “the chief counsel” of the civil rights movement. Gray will accept the award at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in August. The ABA Medal…
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Jonathan Adler Co-authors Cover Story about Vaping
Jonathan Adler and his co-author, Jacob James Rich, recently published an article entitled “Uneducating Americans on Vaping.” The article was the cover story of the Cato Institute’s summer 2023 issue of Regulation Magazine. The article argues that Americans need to be better educated about…
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CWRU Law’s Yemen Accountability Project Publishes 4th Annual White Paper Analyzing the Impact of the Civil War on Yemen’s Youngest Victims
Over 11,000 children dead or injured, 13 million in need of humanitarian assistance, 9.2 million without access to drinking water, 2 million out of school, 3,904 recruited to fight, and the Traumatization of War -- this is the reality of children living through Yemen’s civil war.   The Yemen…
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Certificate and Master of Compliance and Risk Management programs information session
Are you interested in regulatory compliance and risk management jobs in the healthcare or business finance industry? Compliance-related jobs are one of the hottest growth areas in the U.S., with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting an estimated 30,700 jobs opening for compliance officers and…
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CWRU Law Scholarly Commons Surpasses 5 Million Downloads
Case Western Reserve University law faculty are national and international leaders in legal scholarship and research. The Scholarly Commons contains their writings in law reviews, books, journals and other publications. It is a service of The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library. Since its creation in…
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Center for Business Law Hosts Professional Fellow for Governance and Society
In May, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs welcomed a group of professionals from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka on a program called the Professional Fellows Program for Governance and Society. One of these fellows, Urooj Shafi from Pakistan, was placed in an academic fellowship at Center…
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New study ranks CWRU #40 best law faculty based on citations to their articles
The faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Law is well known for their significant scholarly contributions to the field of law.  Their work has recently been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Criminal Court, and the U.S. Congress. In past years, CWRU has been highly…
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JumpStart Program Welcomes Class of 2026
In the summer of 2021, Case Western Reserve University School of Law launched the JumpStart program, an eight week summer experience designed to help students excel in law school and beyond. Two years later, the program welcomed the incoming class of 2026 to campus on Friday, June 16.  “Law school…