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Get to know Black business owners and entrepreneurs from CWRU: Week 1
August is National Black Business Month, a time that celebrates and promotes the support of Black-owned businesses in the United States. In honor of this month, The Daily sat down with several Case Western Reserve University students, alumni, faculty and staff members who double as business owners a...
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Student Summer Experiences: Heavenly Aguilar
Heavenly Aguilar, a rising 2L student with a focus on Public Interest Law, is working as an intern for the Honorable Judge Michelle J. Sheehan of Ohio’s 8th District Court of Appeals this summer. We asked her to share some reflections from her experience. What do you hope to gain from this opportun...
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Holding Russian war criminals accountable
Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University School of Law co-dean, leading panel to present legislation for war crimes court in Ukraine Following numerous atrocities in Ukraine, a team of international law experts is offering a proposal for a special court in Ukraine to investigate and prosecut...
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Holding Russian war criminals accountable
Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University School of Law co-dean, leading panel to present legislation for war crimes court in Ukraine Following numerous atrocities in Ukraine, a team of international law experts is offering a proposal for a special court in Ukraine to investigate and prosecut...
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Jonathan Adler provides analysis of Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency
Professor Jonathan H. Adler provided analysis and insight on television, radio and in print after the Supreme Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Adler, the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and founding director of ...
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CWRU Law School's Yemen Accountability Project Enters its Fifth Year of Documenting Atrocities
While most of the world is focused on war crimes committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in Yemen continues to be the site of some of the worst atrocities and suffering on the planet. Case Western Reserve University School of Law is playing a unique role in documenting those c...
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Fred Gray, iconic civil rights attorney and CWRU School of Law alum, receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
One of Case Western Reserve University’s most iconic alumni—the man Martin Luther King Jr. called the “chief counsel for the protest movement”—received one of the highest honors bestowed on a United States civilian on July 7. Fred D. Gray, Case Western Reserve School of Law alumnus from the class o...
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Fred Gray, iconic civil rights attorney and CWRU School of Law alum, to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
One of Case Western Reserve University’s most iconic alumni—the man Martin Luther King Jr. called the “chief counsel for the protest movement”—will receive one of the highest honors bestowed on a United States civilian. Fred D. Gray, Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumnus from the Cl...
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Certificate and Master of Compliance and Risk Management information session
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community and others are invited to join the School of Law for a virtual information session on the Certificate and Master of Compliance and Risk Management (CRM) Program. Are you interested in regulatory compliance and risk management jobs in the heal...
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High School Students Get a Trial Run at the Law Through the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Summer Legal Academy
Area high school students attending the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Summer Legal Academy are getting a trial run in the legal profession at Case Western Reserve University School of Law this summer. Established in 2005, the Academy seeks to build a more diverse legal community by immersing a group of risi...