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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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October 06, 2020
Looking to pivot your career? Case Western Reserve University School of Law now offers a spring start option for the Juris Doctor (JD) program. Apply by Dec. 1 to be considered for the first spring 2021 cohort. For added flexibility, the program now is accepting GRE scores for application…
October 05, 2020
Susie Ruth Powell (’73) is the recipient of 2020 Centennial Medal Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a CWRU Law graduate. Former managing attorney and litigator with NC Legal Services and assistant professor of law at North Carolina Central, Powell is co-author of the Emmy award-winning…
October 05, 2020
Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Donnelly present a seminar titled “My Journey in the Field of Law” Friday, Oct. 9, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. via Zoom. The Office of Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education and the Department of Political…
October 02, 2020
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join Terri Mester, professor of English, for an upcoming course offered through the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Legal themes in literature reflect our fascination with a justice system that sometimes does not appear to…
October 01, 2020
Roe Green, an arts patron and community activist, is Chief Executive Officer of the Roe Green Foundation. Her father was federal district Judge Ben C. Green (Class of 1930), one of the most distinguished graduates of the law school, who passed away in 1983. In 1999, the Green family established the…
September 30, 2020
This spring, the law school launched the Appellate Litigation Clinic, creating a live-client experience that builds on the appellate practice curriculum offered to second and third-year students. In the time since the clinic launched, students working under the supervision and guidance of…
September 29, 2020
Join the School of Law for “2020 Elections: Challenges to Access, Opportunities for Engagement,” a Zoom discussion on the latest legal issues surrounding the 2020 elections and the right to vote. The discussion will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 7 to 8 p.m. The event will feature discussions…
September 29, 2020
The CWRU School of Law will host a webinar titled “Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do” via Zoom Thursday, Oct. 1, at noon. The webinar will feature: Michael Lederman, professor of medicine at CWRU School of Medicine; Maxwell J. Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine…
September 27, 2020
On September 26, 2020, President Trump nominated 7th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Judge and former Notre Dame Law Professor Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. You can learn about Judge Barrett’s judicial philosophy by watching her September 2019 Sumner…
September 24, 2020
Dean Michael Scharf was lead co-author of an Amicus Brief requested by the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda case. The legal question the International court asked Scharf and his colleagues from the Public International Law & Policy…