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Cleveland Foundation awards $400,000 in grants to Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Cleveland Foundation awarded Case Western Reserve University two grants totaling $400,000 to help fund two initiatives geared toward racial and environmental justice at the School of Law. Both two-year grants will support the law school’s Environmental Law Clinic as well as the Criminal…
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IP Venture Clinic Students Provide Legal Assistance for Local Small Business
Third year law students enrolled in the IPVC Clinic provide legal advice and assistance in protecting intellectual property for small businesses, the local community and even alumni. Michael Zhou is holding for his soon to be world famous SEOUL CITY WINGS™, along with their KORE TACOS™ and DRIPP…
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Ayesha Bell Hardaway Receives Norman S. Minor Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award
Founded in 1980 as Cleveland’s first full-fledged African American bar association, the Norman S. Minor Bar Association holds a yearly gala to recognize trailblazers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of diverse legal professionals and advancing diversity in the legal…
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LLEAP—The Foundation of CWRU Law’s Top-Ranked Experiential Curriculum
Consistently ranked one of the top law schools for practical training (#5 in the Spring 2022 issue of preLaw magazine), CWRU School of Law has long recognized that training students to be practice ready is at the heart of what a law school does. LLEAP, our legal writing program, is the foundation…
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Battle for Ohio
Jessie Hill, leading litigator of the state's reproductive rights movement, meets the biggest legal fight of her life By Mark Oprea The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling that abortion is not a constitutional right prompted celebration from some—and outrage among others. Jessie Hill, the Judge…
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School of Law Receives $4.5 Million in Foundation Grants in 2022
CWRU School of Law received a record $4.5 million in foundation grants in 2022. These grants support the cutting-edge work of our social justice, health law, reproductive rights and international law initiatives, as well as the work of our new Environmental Law and First Amendment Clinics.  Social…
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George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
Increasingly, corporations following the idea of a firm as a nexus of contracts have relied on a contractual paradigm to craft contracts to engage in private ordering as a means of customizing corporate governance. Some of these contractual variations are permitted by statute. In other cases,…
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“Community Health and Liberation”
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend a panel discussion titled “Community Health and Liberation” Saturday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. Part of the Social Justice Institute Think Tank, the event will feature…
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CWRU Law Recognized for “Pushing the Envelope in Legal Tech”
The evolution of technology is changing much of the world, including the legal profession. New technologies provide opportunities for lawyers to improve efficiency and effectiveness. PreLaw Magazine recently highlighted 20 law schools that are pushing the envelope in legal technology.  "Case…
Alireza Nourani-Dargiri on “LLEAPing Into the Profession”
Most of the battle of navigating “how to be an attorney” is simply understanding what exactly an attorney does. For me––and for many––the real exposure to the legal profession starts and develops in law school. Because no one in my family is an attorney, the only information I had on what an…