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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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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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December 10, 2024
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the School of Law had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Shevchenko) and helped establish the School’s American Common Law Center. Since 2013, the Common Law Center has provided academic services at Shevc...
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December 05, 2024
Master of Science in Regenerative Medicine and Entrepreneurship’s FUSION program information session
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to learn about the FUSION aspect of the Master of Science in Regenerative Medicine and Entrepreneurship (RGME) program during a virtual information session Wednesday, Dec. 11, from noon to 1 p.m.
Offered through the School of Law ...
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December 02, 2024
On Friday, Oct. 25, the Center for Business Law co-hosted the Ohio Securities Conference with The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Securities. This is the fifty-first year of the annual event that brings together leading experts in securities law to discuss cutting-edge securities regulation ...
November 27, 2024
Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? Why does Taiwan matter?
On Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. and re-airing at 9 p.m., CWRU School of Law's “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will discuss those questions with leading experts including:
Host Mich...
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November 27, 2024
Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? On Monday, Dec. 2, CWRU’s “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will examine the risk of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The show will air at 9 a.m. and re-air at 9 p.m. on Cleveland’s NPR Station, WKSU 8...
November 25, 2024
Elizabeth Prelogar, the 48th Solicitor General of the United States, shared her thoughts on representing the federal government before the Supreme Court, appellate advocacy and the keys to a happy legal career before a packed audience of students, alumni and local attorneys at the Case Western Reser...
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November 22, 2024
This semester the law school competed for the first time in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition. The premier competition, in its thirty-second season, is hosted by Southern Illinois University School of Law with support from the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Health L...
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November 22, 2024
When longtime Case Western Reserve benefactor and volunteer Tom Peterson died in February 2021, he granted university alumnus Robert Lustig control of his charitable trust.
In a decision that honors both Peterson’s passion for scientific innovation and Lustig’s love of his alma mater, Lustig commi...
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November 20, 2024
On Friday, Nov. 8, the Center for Business Law hosted the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy. The event focused on relational contracting—which is the acknowledgement that contracts often rely heavily on trust between parties and implicit and...
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November 18, 2024
Case Western Reserve University law student Robert Read recently made an oral argument in front of the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Summit County, presenting a case for a client charged with criminal damaging of a window. Read argued that the evidence presented was circumstantial, unrelated to...