Business Law Center

On Oct. 20, the Center for Business Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Ohio Division of Securities co-hosted the Ohio Securities Conference in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s event was the 50th anniversary of the annual conference, which has become one of the premier securi...

In May, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs welcomed a group of professionals from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka on a program called the Professional Fellows Program for Governance and Society. One of these fellows, Urooj Shafi from Pakistan, was placed in an academic fellowship at Center ...

The Case Western Law Review will publish three articles from the Center for Business Law’s Leet Symposium held on Nov. 4, 2022. The law review published the last two Leet Symposia, with the 2020 Leet focusing on the fiduciary and anticompetitive issues raised by the three big index funds. The 2018 L...

Jessica Ice (LAW ‘20), an associate at Squire Patton Boggs, recently supported a $4.2 billion project to support redevelopment at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Squire Patton Boggs LLP team was brought on in early spring of 2022 to serve as co-bond counsel to the New York Transportation ...

For the fifth year in a row, PreLaw Magazine ranked CWRU School of Law as having one of the top Business Law programs in the nation, with an “A” grade in its fall 2022 issue. What are the top ten things that make CWRU’s Business Law program so distinctive? First, CWRU offers a simulation-based ...

The Center for Business Law recently held the biannual George A. Leet Business Law Symposium: Corporate Law and Private Ordering: What are the Limits and What Framework Should Guide Decisions on Private Ordering? Speakers discussed the intersections of contract law and corporations. Increasingly, ...

In January 2020, Professor Juliet Kostritsky, the Everett D. & Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor of Contract Law and director of the law school’s Center for Business Law, was published in the American University Business Law Review with an article she co-authored with her student, Jessica Ice (LAW ‘20), ...

When Professor Wendy Wagner of the University of Texas School of Law was working on her book, "Incomprehensible! A study of how our legal system encourages incomprehensibility, why it matters, and what we can do about it," she asked Professor Juliet Kostritsky, the director of CWRU law school's Cent...