Cox International Law Center

On Oct. 25, Leila Sadat of Washington University School of Law delivered the 2023 Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights and received the Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice. The author of several award-winning books on human rights and…

On Sept. 28-29, two dozen of the foremost experts in climate change and international law gathered at Woodland Hall at the Cleveland Botanical Garden to debate how to respond to the increasing threat of global climate change. The event was organized by Case Western Reserve University School of…

Congratulations to Case Western Reserve University School of Law alum Richard Batson (LAW ‘02), who was recently promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and appointed to be The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Coast Guard. In this position, Admiral Batson supervises more than 200…

When the television series Star Trek launched in 1966, it set out to chronicle the exploits of the starship USS Enterprise’s crew in the 23rd century. What the show’s creators likely didn’t anticipate was the impact Star Trek would have on popular culture for decades to follow.  As the series…

On August 31, 2023, Brenda Hollis, the International Prosecutor in charge of the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine investigation, discussed her work at Case Western Reserve University School of Law to a packed audience. Organized at the last minute to take advantage of Hollis’ presence at the…

CWRU’s Immigration Law program is having a big year. Renowned alumnus Austin Fragomen (LAW ‘68) recently made a $1 million gift to endow our Immigration Law Clinic and local immigration law luminary Margaret Wong, whose son Stephen Chan (LAW ‘10) is a graduate of our law school, made a $100,000…

While many of his law school peers were pursuing careers in corporate law, Andres Perez (LAW ’04) felt called to a a different path: international criminal law and human rights. This is what led him to enroll at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he availed himself of every…

Every American generation has had to respond to foreign tyrants. The Greatest Generation stood up to Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Stalin. The Baby Boomers grappled with Castro, Khomeini, Hussein, and Gaddafi.  In his acclaimed book, “The Age of the Strongman,” author Gideon Rachman argues that…

With her family originating in Bordeaux, Léa Cazaudumec Lucas was fortunate to avoid the experience of culture shock when she jetted to Lyon, France, to begin her summer internship with Interpol. Despite her familiarity with the French language and culture, she spent time adjusting to her new…

As an associate editor of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch newsletter, 3L Nicholas Vanarthos spent much of his second year learning about the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as issues related to the Ivory Coast, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the…