Cox International Law Center

The School of Law at Case Western Reserve University has received a $158,000 grant from the U.S.-Russia Foundation to run the Visiting Russian Law Student Program. The origins of the program date back to 2001, when retired CWRU School of Law Professor Sidney Picker and his wife, retired Cleveland M...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law has dozens of law alumni occupying prominent positions in government agencies, international organizations, NGOs, corporations and law firms around the world. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the endowment of our Cox International Law Center, we o...

When an international crisis hits, Christopher Rassi (CWR ’00; GRS ’00, political science; MGT ’03; LAW ’03) likely is in the thick of it. Case in point: On the day of his interview with In Brief magazine last fall, Rassi, who is the director of the office of the secretary general for the Internatio...

In 1990, just as Case Western Reserve University School of Law was establishing its Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Professor Lewis Katz approached then-Dean Peter Gerhart with a plan: a graduate legal studies program that would bring approximately 15 international students to Cleveland. ...

Trade Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law is more than a course taught by one of the nation’s leading experts. It’s more than the preeminent Trade Law Fall Update, the practitioner-focused conference held annually at the Law School. And it’s more than the opportunity for funded exte...

As he retires as president of the George Gund Foundation at the end of the year, David Abbott will step into a new role in 2022 as the inaugural Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Law school Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf announced the ...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law is the only law school with a foreign relations talk radio show. Hosted by Co-Dean Michael Scharf, “Talking Foreign Policy”—streamed worldwide from WCPN 90.3 ideastream, Cleveland’s National Public Radio station—recently returned from a coronavirus hiatu...

A new book by Professor Juscelino Colares, Restructuring Trade Agreements, has been published by Wolters Kluwer. Using the European Union-Turkey trade relationship as a primary case study, the book provides a practical framework for identifying trade agreements that are ripe for renegotiation and d...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law third-year student Kathryn Meyer was selected to receive the Ms. JD 2021 Public Interest Scholarship, which provides a stipend to students as they pursue careers in public interest law. Ms. JD is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the suc...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law students Natalie Aguilar and Lucas Allison prepared and submitted a complaint to the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and other UN Special Rapporteurs concerning the unlawful detention of a Chinese Uyghur doctor. They filed the co...