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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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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles
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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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October 01, 2021
Layla Maurer, a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has been an enthusiastic gamer since playing her first arcade games and Atari and Nintendo consoles. While the demands of law school occupy most of her days, she still finds time to unwind by gaming with her fam...
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October 01, 2021
In recognition of her edited book, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate (2019), Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters Friedman, MD, earned the American Psychiatric Association/American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law’s 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award. The award-winning book delves into each of t...
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October 01, 2021
In October, Case Western Reserve University School of Law First Amendment Clinic students Makela Hayford, Ginger Pinkerton and Nathan Venesky, along with First Amendment Fellow Sara Coulter, completed a 3½-day bench trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Young...
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October 01, 2021
The School of Law at Case Western Reserve University is among the top law schools that produce the most “Super Lawyers” and “Rising Stars,” according to an article in this month’s National Jurist magazine.
The magazine reports that 13.5 percent of CWRU Law alumni have been named Super Lawyers or R...
September 29, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler was the sixth most cited professor in the field of Environmental Law from 2016-2020, according to a study released this month.
A second analysis, looking at the same time period, also identified Professor Adler as one of the 1...
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September 27, 2021
David Abbott receives Humanitarian Award and named CWRU School of Law's first Dean's Distinguished Jurist in Residence
As he retires as president of the George Gund Foundation at the end of the year, David Abbott will step into a new role in 2022 as the inaugural Distinguished Jurist in Residence a...
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September 26, 2021
Bailey Kadian never intended to follow so closely in her father’s footsteps. Yet she and her father, Mark Kadian (LAW ‘91), both chose Case Western Reserve University School of Law after receiving undergraduate degrees in English from the University of Michigan.
“Many people think I wanted to be a ...
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September 24, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law is the only law school with a foreign relations talk radio show. Hosted by Co-Dean Michael Scharf, “Talking Foreign Policy”—streamed worldwide from WCPN 90.3 ideastream, Cleveland’s National Public Radio station—recently returned from a coronavirus hiatu...
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September 24, 2021
A new book by Professor Juscelino Colares, Restructuring Trade Agreements, has been published by Wolters Kluwer. Using the European Union-Turkey trade relationship as a primary case study, the book provides a practical framework for identifying trade agreements that are ripe for renegotiation and d...
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September 24, 2021
By all accounts, second-year law student George Brazier never met a stranger. His gregarious personality and positive outlook were apparent whether he was socializing with friends or answering a professor’s question in class. Outside the lecture hall, Brazier often could be found in the Black Law St...