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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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March 26, 2021
In a recent verdict from the Washington Court of Appeals, Professor Bryan Adamson (LAW ‘90) won a groundbreaking victory for re-entry rights of formerly incarcerated citizens that will help curb unjust debt collection practices in the state of Washington.
Before rejoining Case Western Reserve Schoo...
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March 25, 2021
Professor Sharona Hoffman was recently asked by the local chapter of Wellesley Club, an organization which promotes literacy, to organize a book talk for Shipped, a debut novel receiving positive reviews. When Hoffman corresponded with the author, Angie Hockman, she learned the writer is a graduate ...
March 19, 2021
Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel presented a paper entitled “Vulnerable Populations and Vaccine Injury Compensation: The Need for Legal Reform” at a conference hosted by Harvard and Yale Law Schools. The event, which took place remotely on February 23, 2021, was entitled “The COVID-19 and the...
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March 19, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law reached the finals of the Americas and Caribbean Round of the International Criminal Court Moot Court competition, held remotely from March 13–14. Based on the strength of its briefs and oral arguments in the preliminary and elimination rounds, the CWRU ...
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March 12, 2021
Katharine Van Tassel, visiting professor of law, and Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, co-authored an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine about how vaccine-related adverse events would especially burden low-income people.
Ordinarily, it takes scientists about...
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March 12, 2021
There no argument that artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improved health care outcomes—from analyzing tumor images, to helping doctors choose among different treatment options, combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
But a husband-wife research duo from Case Western Reserve University ...
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March 12, 2021
Last year, Case Western Reserve University School of Law launched a new Appellate Litigation Clinic, which recently completed a marathon month of oral arguments in four criminal appeals.
The cases began last year, when students Chelsea Fletcher, Vito Giannola, Amanda Hudson, Renee Monzon, Emily Pet...
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March 08, 2021
Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education will host a talk with Jesse Hill, associate dean for research and faculty development and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Friday, March 12, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. Hill will present “Reproductive Rights and the Future of Roe v. Wade.”
Students...
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March 05, 2021
In the Winter 2021 issue of Prelaw Magazine, Case Western Reserve University School of Law was awarded a top rating in public policy law that placed the school among the 20 highest in the nation.
Public policy law is one of the 10 specialty areas in which PreLaw Magazine has awarded Case Western Re...
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March 05, 2021
Kyle Jorstad, a recent graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, had a piece published in the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence.
The article, titled “Intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine: tort liability in the technological age,” analyzes the medico-leg...