Cox International Law Center

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 Pon...

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 Shevc...

Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? Why does Taiwan matter? On Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. and re-airing at 9 p.m., CWRU School of Law's “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will discuss those questions with leading experts including: Host Mich...

A native of Sierra Leone who enrolled in CWRU School of Law “because of its strong international law programs and excellent reputation,” George Shadrack Kamanda graduated from our Law School in 2022 while simultaneously earning a Master’s Degree in Public International Law from Oxford University in ...

Every year, a half-dozen third year law students take advantage of CWRU’s unique concurrent degree program to obtain a foreign LLM at one of our prestigious foreign partner universities in London, Madrid and Paris. The year abroad double counts as the third year at CWRU, earning the student both deg...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law is pleased to announce the launch of its International Development Law Lab in the Fall Term 2024. Adjunct Law Professor Rumu Sarkar leads the lab and also teaches the related course on International Development Law. CWRU School of Law is known for the s...

On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, twenty-nine leading experts in the field of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH, to discuss whether there is a need to strengthen the Geneva Convention...

In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, destruction of the environment has not just been an indirect result of the fighting; Russia has purposely targeted the environment to demoralize the Ukraine population. The Ukraine government has thus made the prosecution of environmental war crimes...

CWRU Law alum Duncan Gaswaga (LAW ‘13) was elected in July 2024 as a Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights. Like the European Court of Human Rights in France and the Inter-American Court for Human Rights in Costa Rica, the Africa Court in Tanzania serves as the supreme human rights ...