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Law’s Doug Smits receives Skadden Fellowship
Doug Smits, third-year student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was recently awarded the Skadden Fellowship. This prestigious two-year program, which is given to 20-25 recipients annually, provides funding for pursuing public interest projects related to civil legal issues. …
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May 01, 2025
When 3L Titus Wheeler was considering capstone options, he focused on expanding his skillset. “I wanted to learn how to combine my finance degree from the University of Toledo with the skills that I have learned at CWRU Law,” he said. “I think CWRU Law is great at teaching the foundational skills…
April 30, 2025
On Feb. 25, Eric Talley presented The Renewed (and Wild) Race in Corporate Law as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is an expert on the intersection of corporate…
April 24, 2025
The CWRU Vis International Moot Court team recently excelled at their competition in Vienna, reaching the elimination round of 32 (out of 400 competing teams) for the first time in school history. The team was tied as the final remaining American school in the competition. The team is comprised…
April 21, 2025
The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) is proud to announce the publication of its sixth white paper, Torture and the Yemen Civil War. Torture is a crime of such gravity that the International Court of Justice has identified it as jus cogens, or a peremptory norm of international law. Despite the…
April 17, 2025
Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team program reached a new milestone at the 2025 Constance Baker Motley National Mock Trial Competition. For the first time in this program's history, two teams advanced to the national stage, an…
April 14, 2025
As she approaches graduation this May, Maya Kapur reflects on her transformative time at the School of Law. Her academic journey has been enriched not only by her coursework and involvement in various student organizations, but also by a study abroad experience that expanded her legal perspective…
April 11, 2025
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law again has the highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio, according to the just-released 2025 US News & World Report law school rankings. In the latest rankings, the environmental law program’s ranking moved up six spots, from…
April 08, 2025
The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with Case Western Reserve University School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive…
April 07, 2025
The Law-Medicine Center hosted a two-day conference on February 21-22, 2025, entitled “Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students.” At the conference, medical and legal experts described the challenges that physicians…
April 07, 2025
The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023). He is…