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Three faculty members named Distinguished University Professors
Case Western Reserve University is home to exceptional faculty scholars across a wide range of fields. They drive innovation, collaboration and creativity, inspiring their students to do the same.Each year, in recognition of the important role faculty play at our institution, the university selects…
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May 10, 2021
At CWRU, students have an opportunity to publish articles in three Law Journals: Case Western Reserve Law Review, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law and Health Matrix. In addition, faculty work with students to help them place their seminar papers and independent study scholarship in…
May 07, 2021
Students in Case Western Reserve’s Appellate Litigation Clinic capped off their semester with two major filings: a 60-page brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a habeas case and a petition asking the Supreme Court of Ohio to hear a case involving Ohio’s…
May 07, 2021
George S. Kamanda, a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, was named the recipient of the 2021 Wong Moss Outstanding Alumni Award by his undergraduate alma mater, Delaware County Community College. He has been asked to deliver the commencement keynote address for the college’s…
May 04, 2021
Case Western Reserve University Law Black 3L Students marked their impending graduation with their first ever Sankofa Celebration. Held Wednesday, April 28, in-person on the lawn next to the Law School and livestreamed, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Inaugural Sankofa event was an…
April 30, 2021
For nearly a decade, Professor Aleksandar Cuic and his students in the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Immigration Law Clinic have been on the frontlines of the battle for human rights in America’s immigration courts. On April 20, they scored a major victory. A client from Trinidad & Tobago…
April 30, 2021
In a piece published by Wall Street Journal, Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, discussed the Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan and its impact on public debate in America. His piece is titled “Permissive libel law lets democracy down.” Read the article.
April 30, 2021
Richard K. Gordon, director of the Financial Integrity Institute and professor of law, wrote a piece published in The New York Times about the war in Afghanistan. Gordon noted the significance of George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, and how the decision impacted the United States’ involvement…
April 28, 2021
Professors Matthew E. Kahn of Johns Hopkins University and Robin K. Craig of the University of Utah discussed adaptation to climate change from both a legal and economic perspective in a webinar on April 28, 2021, sponsored by the Coleman Burke Center for Environmental Law. The webinar is available…
April 28, 2021
For an elite-sized law school, Case Western Reserve University School of Law is unusual in the number of highly successful moot court and mock trial teams it fields each year. Reflecting the school’s recent 6th best in the nation ranking in practical training, this has been an extraordinary year…
April 26, 2021
If you watched news coverage of the Chauvin Trial, you likely saw CWRU Law Professor Ayesha Hardaway
On April 20, 2021, the jury delivered its verdict in the high-profile trial of Derek Chauvin. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murdering George Floyd. It was one of the most watched trials in recent years. And whatever network you tuned in to, you were likely to see Case…