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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 05, 2021
Aaron Perzanowski, professor at the School of Law, co-authored an article titled “Abandoning Copyright” with Dave Fagundes of the University of Houston Law Center. The piece was published in the William and Mary Law Review.
For nearly 200 years, U.S. copyright law has assumed that owners may volun...
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March 03, 2021
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law First Amendment Clinic filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cleveland Scene and one of its freelance reporters alleging that the Cleveland Police Department has been wrongfully withholding use-of-force reports subject to multiple public records requests over...
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March 01, 2021
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s faculty is ranked 30th in the country in scholarly impact, based on citations to their articles. In addition to the quantity and quality of their scholarship, part of the reason for the ranking may be due to the ease of accessibility of their works...
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March 01, 2021
Professors Karen Bradshaw of Arizona State University and Holly Doremus of the University of California at Berkeley discussed Professor Bradshaw’s new book Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights in a webinar on March 1, 2021, sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Envir...
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February 25, 2021
Congratulations to the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Jessup International Law Moot Court team, which competed last weekend in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court U.S. Regional Competition.
Because of the virtual format due to the pandemic, this year there were three la...
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February 24, 2021
Case Western Reserve University School of Law has received funding commitments of over $1 million from the Stanton Foundation to establish a First Amendment Clinic and First Amendment Clinic Fellowship in the school’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. With these commitments, the Stanton Foundation...
February 22, 2021
Several organizations rank law schools each year. Collectively, these organizations rank CWRU in a range from 56th to 72nd best law school in the nation (out of 204). In addition, some rank specialty programs, where CWRU particularly excels. Here are CWRU’s latest rankings from each organization, in...
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February 22, 2021
CWRU’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team was victorious in the Midwest Regional Rounds of the prestigious Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition Feb. 3–5, which was held online.
After competing in five rounds of competition over three days, the CWRU team came in first ou...
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February 19, 2021
Erik M. Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, recently penned an opinion piece titled “Revisiting the 25th Amendment in a (perhaps) calmer time” and published on cleveland.com about the 25th amendment.
The amendment became a talking point following the U.S. Capitol insurrection in...
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February 18, 2021
In a trend accelerated by the coronavirus, the law is increasingly technology-driven, from the way lawyers prepare cases to the way courts try them.
In the Winter 2021 issue of PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist, Case Western Reserve earned an “A+,” ranking the school’s technology l...