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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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October 17, 2022
The inaugural guide to Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America was recently released and CWRU is proud to announce that adjunct professor Edmund “Ned” W. Searby was recognized in the White Collar Defense and Leading Investigations; Appellate category.
Ned serves as chair of Porter Wright’s Whi...
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October 17, 2022
In the late-1950s, market researchers inserted subliminal messages into movies, encouraging the audience to “eat popcorn” and “drink Coca-Cola.” It didn’t take long for the Federal Communications Commission and U.S. courts to ban subliminal advertising—messages not consciously perceived by the eye b...
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October 14, 2022
In this year’s recently published GAVEL rankings, Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s mock trial teams were ranked 5th best in the nation based on their successful performance at a number of national mock trial competitions.
The top five ranked mock trial programs for 2021-22 were:
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October 13, 2022
If you don’t know what’s worth dying for, you don’t know what’s worth living for, either.
That’s a topic of military ethics that Shannon French has explored for decades, both in her role as the Inamori Professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and, before that, when she was teaching e...
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October 13, 2022
A judge should aspire to be perfectly predictable with respect to his or her methodology. That methodology, broadly described, is one of formalism—which manifests itself, most notably, in an originalist approach to constitutional cases and a textualist approach to statutory and regulatory cases. But...
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October 12, 2022
International excellence—and best oralist in the world
After coming in third in the national competition in February, Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Jessup International Law moot court team ranked 14th in the World Championship Rounds in April, thanks to exemplary performances from...
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October 12, 2022
The Milton and Charlotte Kramer Law Clinic welcomed two experienced intellectual property attorneys to teach students enrolled in the Intellectual Property Venture Clinic in 2022-2023.
John Yirga is a partner with the law firm Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tumino LLP, where he is co-chair of the Pa...
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October 12, 2022
On Oct. 6, the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals held an oral argument in the Moot Courtroom at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
In a packed room, CWRU School of Law alumnae Judge Lisa B. Forbes and Judge Emanuella D. Groves, along with Judge Michelle J. Sheehan, heard arguments ...
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October 11, 2022
Through the Kramer Law Clinic, students gain hands-on practice—and change clients’ lives
When an El Salvadoran citizen suffered inhumane treatment at the hands of his native country’s government, he fled the country to the United States—only to eventually be detained for more than two years by U.S....
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October 11, 2022
The Law Review at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a symposium exploring current First Amendment issues in lower and higher education.
Titled “America's Classrooms: Frontlines of the First Amendment Symposium,” this event will be held Friday, Oct. 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 ...