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Q: After your first year of law school, you helped Professor Scharf draft the case for the 2025 International Bar Association's International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition. Tell us about that experience.

Rising 3L Vanessa Pilátová recently took victory in the first-ever Rhetoric Moot Court Madness competition. The first of its kind to be judged by AI, the competition brought together 64 students representing 27 law schools and 17 states, including many non-traditional JD students.

On Thursday, May 22, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at �Ӱ���Ƶ hosted its second Junior Faculty Workshop for law school pre-tenured faculty and fellows who are currently pursuing teaching careers in environmental law, energy law, climate law or natural resources law.

In September 2023, the Coleman P.

The National Law Journal recently reported that the average starting salary for a first-year associate at the

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.

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, corporate contracts and corporate governance.

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. 

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.

�Ӱ���Ƶ'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".

CWRU School of Law is pleased to announce the establishment of a spring break in the Hague program, recently approved by the faculty.

Kenny Wallace came to �Ӱ���Ƶ to make a difference. What he didn’t expect was how deeply his clients—and his fieldwork—would change him in return.

When Thomas Lipker stepped into his role as Graduate Student Council (GSC) president, he brought with him six years of experience on the �Ӱ���Ƶ campus, first as an undergraduate student studying economics and music, and then as a law student.

Over the last few years, law student Obasi Ndukwe has learned the importance of staying open to opportunities—including, in his case, the possibility of becoming a lawyer. At the time he enrolled, the Cleveland native wasn’t quite sure where his career would lead.