Cox International Law Center

CWRU School of Law is pleased to announce the establishment of a spring break in the Hague program, recently approved by the faculty. The 2-credit program, to be run by professors Michael Scharf and Laura McNally, will provide 20 students and alumni the opportunity to spend a week in the Hague,…

The CWRU Vis International Moot Court team recently excelled at their competition in Vienna, reaching the elimination round of 32 (out of 400 competing teams) for the first time in school history. The team was tied as the final remaining American school in the competition. The team is comprised…

The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) is proud to announce the publication of its sixth white paper, Torture and the Yemen Civil War. Torture is a crime of such gravity that the International Court of Justice has identified it as jus cogens, or a peremptory norm of international law. Despite the…

The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with Case Western Reserve University School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court team recently had its best performance ever, reaching the finals at the National Competition held at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and taking third place in a split decision.  The team, made up of Rose Lekan (3L, Defense Counsel),…

In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. With an effort to obtain a peace…

The Winter 2025 preLaw magazine International Law Program rankings were announced last week, and for the seventh year in a row, Case Western Reserve University School of Law received the magazine’s top ranking.  CWRU was one of just 12 Law Schools to receive the coveted A+ ranking this year. CWRU…

One of the reasons CWRU School of Law’s International Law Program is ranked so highly is the school’s unique Concurrent Degree Program. A decade ago, CWRU School of Law established three Concurrent Degree Partnerships—with Middlesex University in London, Université Paris-IX Dauphine and Comillas…

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their age. The rules and principles they established for the conduct of war were created before the advent…

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the School of Law had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Shevchenko) and helped establish the School’s American Common Law Center. Since 2013, the Common Law Center has provided academic services at…