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5 questions with School of Law’s Carter Callender, Class of 2026
As graduation approaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, students look back on the experiences that shaped their time on campus—and ahead to the paths they’re about to begin. From discovering their academic interests to gaining hands-on experience through clinics, competitions and…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
May 04, 2023
Monte Mills, the Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and director of the Native American Law Center at University of Washington School of Law, joined the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for a discussion on the history and management of…
May 04, 2023
Case Western Reserve University is launching a new program to capitalize on commercializing innovations arising from the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine. The program, which begins in fall semester 2023, is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Law. The curriculum…
May 03, 2023
Nearly three months after news broke that a train had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, students in the Environmental Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law held a free legal clinic in East Palestine. The clinic, in collaboration with River Valley Organizing, Community Legal…
May 01, 2023
After completing multiple different internships and externships during his time at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 3L Sam Halpert Rodis is looking ahead to his post-graduate life as a Judge Advocate with the U.S. Army. “The most rewarding work I have done has been in connection with…
April 28, 2023
We are proud to announce the addition of four impactful lateral hires to our community of scholars and the promotion of Ayesha Bell Hardaway to full professor of law with tenure (all effective July 1 except Atiba Ellis, who began Jan. 1). The most recent Heald and Sichelman study of scholarly…