School of Law

The new arrivals to the Law School had an unforgettable welcome on August 28 when Andrew Cayley presented the first major lecture of the 2024-2025 academic year. The occasion was the annual Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights Law. The Klatsky Lecture was created in 2001 by CWRU alu...

HyperCase is a healthcare startup incubator bringing together law, business, engineering and medical students to develop innovative solutions in healthcare. HyperCase aims to teach entrepreneurship through a product development curriculum, board meetings, guest speakers, and an end-of-year conferenc...

Each year on September 17, the United States commemorates Constitution Day. In honor of this celebration, the Center for Policy Studies will be holding its Annual Constitution Day Program, Affirmative Action on Trial, on Monday, Sept. 16 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law’s Moot Courtroom (A59...

Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Law-Medicine Center has been ranked among the top eight health law programs in the country by preLaw magazine, earning an A+ rating. As the oldest health law program in the United States, the center has a long history of preparing students to tackle th...

As the 2024 election comes into view, advanced technology is anticipated to have an unprecedented influence on voters before, during, and after they cast their ballots. While the risks of voter suppression, election manipulation, and misinformation predate advanced technology, a new capacity for ins...

The School of Law will host Adam C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson for a discussion on their book, A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court, recently published by the Oxford University Press. The book goes behind the curtain to see how securities law gets made at the Supreme Court, relyin...

The School of Law invites members of the Case Western Reserve University community to a talk by Kati Kovacs, deputy assistant secretary in the Department of the Interior. Kovacs will present “Regulating Energy and Land Management at the Department of the Interior” Wednesday, Sept. 18, from noon to ...

Razing the Bar, CWRU School of Law’s faculty/student/alumni rock band, kicked off the 2024 Jam for Justice on Wednesday, Aug. 24. Featuring ten local lawyer bands, the Jam for Justice was held at the famed Beachland Ballroom, where several renowned bands including the Black Keys got their start. The...

When it comes to firsthand knowledge of Case Western Reserve, Thomas Lipker has plenty—six-years’ worth, to be exact. Now entering his seventh and final year at CWRU, the third-year law student is putting this background to work as the incoming Graduate Student Council (GSC) president. With the new ...

On the last evening of orientation week, the energy was palpable as Case Western Reserve University’s new first-year JD and LLM students gathered in the law school’s courtyard, ready to embark on the first event of the inaugural Lex Cup tournament. The year-long tournament, designed to foster camara...