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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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September 03, 2021
A special traveling exhibit commemorating the 19th Amendment is on display in the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library through Saturday, Sept. 11. The exhibit, "100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future,” celebrates women’s suffrage, tells the story of the battle for ratification an...
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September 03, 2021
A traveling exhibit commemorating the 19th Amendment is on display in the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library through Saturday, Sept. 11, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The exhibit, “100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future,” tells the story of the battle for ratification and out...
August 31, 2021
American poet Robert Frost famously remarked that the road he did not take had made all the difference. For former Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Arnold Reitze, the road he took through Cleveland made all the difference—not only for for himself, but also for the field of env...
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August 30, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law is pleased to welcome an exceptional group of students to campus, including 146 members of the fall 2021 entering JD class, plus 15 spring start students who began their studies in January.
This year’s 1L entering JD class has a median LSAT of 160 (up...
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August 27, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law students Reece Disney and Jessica Foo helped coordinate and draft amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs to the United States Supreme Court in a civil case involving efforts to obtain information about the brutal interrogation tactics the United St...
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August 27, 2021
Following the release of the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, penned a piece calling for conservatives to take climate pol...
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August 24, 2021
On Friday, Aug. 20, the Honorable Michelle Earley (LAW '99), administrative and presiding judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court, presented remarks at the Linsalata Alumni Center to the 146 incoming Case Western Reserve University School of Law JD students. She offered personal insights into the leg...
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August 06, 2021
In an op-ed, Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, discussed why a wealth tax—despite being a current popular topic of conversation—would very likely not survive a constitutional challenge
Published by Bloomberg, his Jensen’s piece is titled “Wealth taxes can’t satisfy consti...
August 03, 2021
Students who begin their semester in the Appellate Litigation Clinic this fall will have an opportunity few practicing attorneys ever do: they will brief a case to the Supreme Court of Ohio, which last week accepted the clinic’s petition for discretionary review in an important case involving a defe...
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August 02, 2021
On June 1, 2021, United States President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a proclamation declaring June National Immigrant Heritage Month, encouraging reflection on the stories of “courageous families who ventured here—be it centuries ago, or just this year—from every part of the world to seek new possibi...