School of Law

Every so often there is a tectonic shift in American foreign policy—a fundamental turning point marked by radically new ways of approaching the world. The post-World War II era of institution-building and the post-9/11 global war on terrorism are examples. Has President Trump’s return ushered in one...

The National Law Journal recently reported that the average starting salary for a first-year associate at the nation’s large law firms is $215,000. Cleveland is home to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, with its stre...

Writing is an essential skill that lawyers use to communicate, advocate, and persuade. Legal writing is the cornerstone of CWRU’s Legal Writing, Experiential Learning, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) Program. The LLEAP Awards were established to recognize the hard work and dedication that it...

In February, Cathy Hwang presented "Purpose and Nonprofit Enterprise" as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Hwang is a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches, researches and writes about mergers and acquisitions, corpor...

CWRU School of Law recently held its eleventh celebration of faculty, an annual event to recognize the achievements and contributions of faculty members during the previous school year. The celebration included the presentation of endowed chairs to two faculty members, Eric Chaffee and Betsy Rosen...

Jessie Hill's article "Recentering the Pregnant Body: Moving Beyond the Medicalized Framework in Abortion Advocacy," is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. Hill argues that abortion rights advocates have long treated abortion as primarily a medical issue, while minimizing its other...

Case Western Reserve University's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

In March, the Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet (JOLTI) and the Compliance, Risk Management and Financial Integrity Institute hosted the symposium "Exploring the AI Frontier: The Business World, Artificial Intelligence and the Law". This symposium explored the intersection of artificial in...

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, Neth...

When Thomas Lipker stepped into his role as Graduate Student Council (GSC) president, he brought with him six years of experience on the Case Western Reserve University campus, first as an undergraduate student studying economics and music, and then as a law student. In his capacity leading the GSC,...