School of Law

On Friday, Oct. 25, the Center for Business Law co-hosted the Ohio Securities Conference with The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Securities. This is the fifty-first year of the annual event that brings together leading experts in securities law to discuss cutting-edge securities regulation ...

Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? Why does Taiwan matter? On Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. and re-airing at 9 p.m., CWRU School of Law's “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will discuss those questions with leading experts including: Host Mich...

Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? On Monday, Dec. 2, CWRU’s “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will examine the risk of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The show will air at 9 a.m. and re-air at 9 p.m. on Cleveland’s NPR Station, WKSU 8...

Elizabeth Prelogar, the 48th Solicitor General of the United States, shared her thoughts on representing the federal government before the Supreme Court, appellate advocacy and the keys to a happy legal career before a packed audience of students, alumni and local attorneys at the Case Western Reser...

This semester the law school competed for the first time in the National Health Law Moot Court Competition. The premier competition, in its thirty-second season, is hosted by Southern Illinois University School of Law with support from the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Health L...

When longtime Case Western Reserve benefactor and volunteer Tom Peterson died in February 2021, he granted university alumnus Robert Lustig control of his charitable trust. In a decision that honors both Peterson’s passion for scientific innovation and Lustig’s love of his alma mater, Lustig commi...

On Friday, Nov. 8, the Center for Business Law hosted the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy. The event focused on relational contracting—which is the acknowledgement that contracts often rely heavily on trust between parties and implicit and...

Case Western Reserve University law student Robert Read recently made an oral argument in front of the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Summit County, presenting a case for a client charged with criminal damaging of a window. Read argued that the evidence presented was circumstantial, unrelated to...

Daniel Leizerman, a student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, will receive The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland’s Volunteer Lawyers Program 2024 Access to Justice Award. This award is presented in recognition of significant contribution to advancing the mission of the Legal Aid Societ...

Corey Whetzel (LAW '24) recently won the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s (ASPL) Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award. He was selected for his paper “No Way FDA, Let States Lead the Way on Expanding the Prescriptive Authority of Pharmacists,” which was published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law Med...