School of Law

'Unfilmable' novels? No such thing, says Hollywood CNN: Louis Giannetti, professor emeritus of English and film, talks about the problem of trying to successfully covert books to film. “The language in Gatsby is almost like poetry,” he said. “How do you translate that into cinematic terms?”...

A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed a novel method to disrupt this growth-signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a ...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series continues Wednesday, May 8, with a talk by Heidi Gullett, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her talk, “Bridges Out of Poverty: A novel framework to promote social change and ...

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, organized, moderated and spoke at a Case Western Reserve Law School symposium titled “Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients’ Rights and the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes.” The full-day progra...

Earlier this year, Avidan Cover, an assistant professor in the School of Law, moderated a discussion with Jose Antonio Vargas, author of My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, as part of the Town Hall of Cleveland Speaker Series. In addition, Cover’s paper, “Presumed Imminence: Judicial Risk Assessm...

Charles Korsmo, assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, recently presented at two conferences and has a paper forthcoming for publication. He presented his paper “Venture Capital and Preferred Stock” twice: March 5 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney Schoo...

Jaime Bouvier, assistant director of the academic and writing support program at the School of Law, recently published works and gave presentations around the world. Her article, “The Symbolic Garden: An Intersection of the Food Movement and the First Amendment” will be published in the Maine Law R...

The Case Western Reserve University Weight Watchers at Work group will host an informational open house Thursday, May 2. Attendees will learn more about the Weight Watchers Program and enjoy healthy snacks and a product giveaway. The open house will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Thwing Center’...

Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the next Flora Stone Mather Center for Women WILD Wednesday talk, “Shrinking into that Swimsuit for Summer"—an informal conversation about body image and pressures from media and society. The event will be May 1 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Spartan Ro...

Thirty years ago, just a few miles down the road, Michael Scharf served as captain of the Shaker Heights High School debate team. The topic was American foreign policy. Immediately, his interest was piqued. That interest has remained ever since. Scharf went on to Duke University, where he was the s...