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Law’s Jonathan Adler calls for conservatives to take climate policy seriously
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…
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CWRU Law Alumna and Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Administers Oath to Class of 2024
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…
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Law’s Erik Jensen predicts how a wealth tax would fare against a constitutional challenge
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…
Supreme Court of Ohio Accepts Jurisdiction over Clinic Client’s Appeal
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…
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Making an Impact on Immigration
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…
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Three Decades of Progress
The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center marks its 30th anniversary this year. In honor of the occasion, we’re taking a look back at some of the remarkable accomplishments of our past three decades. 1991: A multimillion-dollar gift from the Gund Foundation endows the Cox International Law…
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CWRU School of Law to Offer New Master’s Degree and Certificates in Compliance and Risk Management
The volume of laws, regulations, standards and guidelines governing health care-related businesses has dramatically increased during the past several decades. When a health care business fails to comply, it can open itself up to lawsuits and serious financial and criminal liability. That’s part of…
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New programs in law, medicine, nursing, management and engineering launch at CWRU
At Case Western Reserve University, faculty and staff are always working to expand educational offerings to meet the needs of our students and prepare them for evolving career fields. Most recently, this has led to the approval of new programs on topics ranging from compliance and risk management…
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Professor Hardaway Rejoins Police Monitoring Team as Deputy Monitor
As reported on WCPN 90.3 ideastream, Cleveland’s NPR Station, on Monday, July 19, Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor of Law Ayesha Bell Hardaway rejoined the Cleveland Police Monitoring Team as deputy monitor five weeks after her forced resignation and 11 days after the police…
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Ignite: Legal Tech Innovation 2021
The School of Law will host Ignite: Legal Tech Innovation 2021 today (July 14) and tomorrow (July 15). Held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., today’s session will give attendees the chance to learn from expert law librarians and professors about how they are teaching various tech topics to their students. A…