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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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January 22, 2021
Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, weighed in on what led to pollsters being off in predictions for the 2020 election. Entin’s piece, published on cleveland.com and titled “Shakespeare and those inaccurate polls,” called upon…
January 22, 2021
Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, co-wrote an opinion article titled “During the pandemic, some rights are more equal than others” on cleveland.com. She worked with Caroline Mala Corbin, professor of University of Miami School of Law in Florida, on the piece. In the article,…
January 22, 2021
Clockwise from top-left: Michael Gerhardt, Joy R. Bostic, Justin Buchler and Bryan Adamson Members of the university community are invited to “A Less Perfect Union,” a panel discussion on insurrection, impeachment, race and the future of America, Monday, Jan. 25, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Case…
January 21, 2021
Visiting Professor Katharine Van Tassel and Professor Sharona Hoffman, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, were published on Jan. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine with co-author Carmel Shachar, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center. The article, “Covid-19…
January 21, 2021
For nearly 130 years, each incoming first-year law student at Case Western Reserve University began their legal education in the fall. Following a series of administrative reforms to increase flexibility in accommodating and recruiting students, the law school welcomed an inaugural spring class…
January 19, 2021
George Kamanda, a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, recently published his third book, "Citizenship Reimagined: The Case for Responsible Whole Citizenry in Sierra Leone (Palmetto Publishing, Oct. 2020)." Born in Sierra Leone, Kamanda drew inspiration for his book from…
January 15, 2021
A Case Western Reserve University law professor, whose research inspired a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. Supreme Court, has secured another place in the history books. Jonathan H. Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve School of…
January 15, 2021
A Case Western Reserve University law professor, whose research inspired a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. Supreme Court, has secured another place in the history books. Jonathan H. Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve School of…
January 15, 2021
Interested in learning about how our financial systems are kept safe from criminal activity? The Master of Arts in Financial Integrity (MAFI) program at the School of Law focuses on all aspects of catching terrorists, human traffickers and other criminals through their financial transactions, and…
January 13, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, an adjunct professor at the law school, who was selected for the Manfred S. Guttmacher award by the American Psychiatric Association/ American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law for her edited book, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate. Hatters…