Environmental law center
October 12, 2020
In October 2020, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Council to serve as a sounding board regarding the best ways to preserve and safeguard Ohio’s natural resources. Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial professor of law and director of the Coleman…
September 21, 2020
This past spring, Case Western Reserve University School of Law welcomed Beth Nagusky (‘82) back to teach an elective course on climate law for first-year students. Professor Nagusky graduated from the School of Law in 1982 and moved to Maine soon after, pursuing a diverse career in environmental…
June 30, 2020
Law student Henry Holmes (2021) turned a summer fellowship into a published article in an environmental law review. Holmes spent the summer after his first-year at Case Western Reserve University School of Law as a graduate fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman,…
April 07, 2020
On March 27, the Law-Medicine Center hosted its annual conference, “Environmental Health and the Law,” co-sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health. The interdisciplinary conference examined the effectiveness of 50…
March 30, 2020
In 2019, CWRU School of Law received a $10 million gift to launch the Burke Center for Environmental Law. The size of this transformative gift instantly put CWRU on the map in the environmental law field, as recognized by the Spring 2020 issue of PreLaw magazine, which gave CWRU’s Environmental Law…
March 30, 2020
The federal government’s top environmental lawyer discussed climate change litigation, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the role of the Department of Justice in environmental policy in recent remarks at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Jeffery Bossert Clark,…
October 14, 2019
Wheeler, a CWRU alum, joins more than a dozen nationally recognized environmental, legal experts at Oct. 18 symposium Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Case Western Reserve University alumnus, returns to campus as keynote speaker in a daylong symposium…
April 23, 2019
Alumnus Coleman P. Burke’s contribution—the law school’s largest-ever—will support interdisciplinary education and research Nearly a decade after endowing a professorship in honor of his law school mentor Leon Gabinet, alumnus Coleman P. Burke (LAW ’70) has committed $10 million to establish a…