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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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July 08, 2021
Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel was featured as a guest on the podcast "Legal Talk Today." She spoke about a new Arizona Law that significantly expands access to telehealth services in Arizona. Listen to Professor Van Tassel’s July 5, 2021, episode, entitled “The Future of Telehealth,”…
July 08, 2021
On June 30, 2021, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that he has reappointed Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson to a three-year term as Commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission. Established in 1893, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) provides states…
July 06, 2021
Every year, CWRU School of Law hosts conferences and lectures open to students, alumni and the public on a wide range of legal topics. Undeterred by the pandemic, the Law School hosted 39 events online in the past year. Most events had 200-300 attendees, about three times the audience in-person…
July 02, 2021
When the fledgling international criminal court mock trial competition foundered a decade ago, School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf co-founded the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition in The Hague with Professor Carsten Stahn, Director of the Grotius Center at Leiden University…
July 02, 2021
In May, Brian Gran, professor of sociology and law, was invited by the Oxford Children's Rights Network to give a presentation to Oxford University's Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Gran's presentation concentrated on his book, The Sociology of Children's Rights, which Polity Press recently…
June 30, 2021
In a time when Cleveland, like many communities across the country, is grappling with the need for police reform, voters want to be informed on political candidates’ positions on police reform.
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Law held an online forum on police reform for the…
June 28, 2021
After qualifying by reaching the finals of the Americas Region of the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition in March, Case Western Reserve University School of Law advanced to the World Championship Rounds of the global competition for the first time in its history. The event,…
June 25, 2021
President Biden recently declared June as National Immigrant Heritage Month, a topic about which Aleksandar Cuic, adjunct professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, is very familiar. Originally from Serbia (the former Yugoslavia), Cuic’s…
June 25, 2021
Aleksandar Cuic On June 1, 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…
June 22, 2021
At a time when many communities across the United States are grappling with the need for police reform, voters want to be informed on local political candidates’ positions on the subject. The Cleveland Community Police Commission and Case Western Reserve University School of Law are co-sponsoring…