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CWRU School of Law Celebrates Recent Graduates and Alumni at Reunion Weekend
Case Western Reserve University celebrated its homecoming the weekend of Oct. 7–9, 2022. The law school took the opportunity to honor its faculty, staff, alumni and students throughout the weekend. The School of Law Alumni Association kicked off the weekend with the annual Alumni and Faculty…
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Plan ahead: Consider adding these courses to your spring semester schedule
Fall break offers not only a chance to rest and recharge after midterms, but an opportunity to look ahead to the spring semester and start planning out the perfect course load. Course registration for undergraduates begins Nov. 14, and some graduate students can register even earlier. To make sure…
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Professor Jessie Hill Successfully Challenges Ohio Abortion Ban
On Oct. 7th Professor Jessie Hill and her team won a temporary but important victory in their battle to end Ohio’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins granted a preliminary injunction against Ohio’s abortion ban. Consequently, while…
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CWRU Law School’s Talking Foreign Policy Radio Show launches Podcast
Oct. 24 broadcast/podcast will examine challenges of prosecuting Russian leaders for war crimes. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shocked the conscience of humanity. Daily reports of Russian atrocities appear in the news. Worldwide, the cries for accountability are rising. But are Vladimir Putin…
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“The ‘Blurred Lines' of Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear: Music as a Communication Tort, Divorce Narrative and the Performance of Masculinity”
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are encouraged to save the date for a Power of Diversity Lecture Series event with Bryan Adamson, the David L. & Ann Brennan Professor of Law and associate dean of diversity and inclusion at the School of Law. Adamson will present “The…
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Adjunct Professor Edmund W. Searby Named Top 500 Litigator in America
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…
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When 'nudging' goes too far: $1.6M to support research into ethics of recruiting research participants
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…
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CWRU Law Ranked 5th Best in the Nation for Mock Trial Success
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…
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Professor Shannon French’s work honored at United States Naval Academy
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…
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Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture: “On Being Predictably Unpredictable”
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.…