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Law’s Black Law Student Association Mock Trial Team earns regional championship title
Members of Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial Team recently earned first place at the Midwest Regional Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition regional championship. Those on the team were Doctor of Law (JD) candidates Jordyn Dawson…
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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 04, 2025
Somewhere between studying, attending classes and networking with employers, second-year law student Jack Anderson makes time to pursue another passion: baseball. As a six-year member of the Case Western Reserve University baseball team, Anderson has mastered the art of time management, carefully…
April 01, 2025
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Louise McKinney, who died on Tuesday, March 18. McKinney joined the clinical faculty in 1989 after serving as the Director of the Clinical Education Programme at the University of…
March 28, 2025
Third-year law student Charles Pavelec was recently selected as the Sixth Circuit Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student for 2025. The award was presented on March 20 at a reception in Washington, D.C. “The Bankruptcy Code is really complicated and can sometimes seem like fake words made up by…
March 24, 2025
At its inaugural symposium in Montgomery, Alabama, the Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights appointed Ayesha Bell Hardaway, Director of the university’s Social Justice Institute and Professor of Law, and Bryan L. Adamson, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and the David L. and…
March 20, 2025
A team of CWRU Law students recently took second place in the Southwest Regional National Patent Application Drafting Competition. Philip Kwon (2L), Amy Schnupp (2L) and Gregory Coffee (2L) found out about the competition through the patent preparation and prosecution course taught by adjunct…
March 19, 2025
This May, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law will be hosting its second annual Junior Environmental Law Scholar Workshop for law school pre-tenured faculty and fellows who are currently pursuing teaching careers in environmental law, energy law, climate law or natural resources law.…
March 18, 2025
Professor Sharona Hoffman was quoted in the New York Times on March 5, 2025, in an article entitled “Florida Seeks Drug Prescription Data With Names of Patients and Doctors.” She commented on an unusual demand by The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, seeking data on millions of 2024 drug…
March 17, 2025
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court team recently had its best performance ever, reaching the finals at the National Competition held at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and taking third place in a split decision. The team, made up of Rose Lekan (3L, Defense Counsel),…
March 14, 2025
The School of Law is proud to announce that third-year law student Anna Glavaš has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award, presented by the Burton Awards in association with the Library of Congress. Glavaš is among an elite group of fifteen winners chosen…