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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
ӰƵ's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles

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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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March 23, 2018
Add one more entry into ӰƵ’s list of efforts that U.S. News & World Report rates among the nation’s top 10.
Along with degree programs in nursing and social work that achieved lofty positions in the rankings released this week, the law school’s Health Law specialty moved up four p...

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March 07, 2018
Join the School of Law Thursday, March 8, from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in the school’s Moot Court Room (A59) for a breakfast presentation with executives from the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The presentation, which includes complimentary bagels and coffee for a...

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March 06, 2018
The ӰƵ School of Law Student Chapter of the Federalist Society will host Justice Pat DeWine of the Ohio Supreme Court for “Perspectives from the Bench” today (March 6) at noon in the School of Law’s Moot Courtroom (A59).
DeWine will speak on the role of the judiciary and his exper...

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March 01, 2018
The Diversity Committee at the School of Law, in conjunction with the Women’s Law Association, will host a panel discussion titled “#MeToo: Perspectives on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.” The event will take place Tuesday, March 6, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at George Gund Hall, Room A29.
The disc...

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February 22, 2018
After the Trump Administration released its most recent list of judicial nominees, Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, assessed what the motivation for several appointees could be.
Adler argues that three particular...

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January 29, 2018
The Office of Undergraduate Studies’ next pre-law community hour will feature Professor David Forte of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. Forte will speak on issues of national security in his talk, titled “Adversaries Near and Far: What is America's future?”
The event...

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January 19, 2018
Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko-BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, was recently appointed to the Study Committee on Garnishment of Wages in Bank Accounts by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The committee will examine the circumstanc...

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January 12, 2018
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, wrote a piece for The Volokh Conspiracy titled “Can Land Uninhabitable by an Endangered Species Nonetheless Be 'Critical Habitat' Under the Endangered Species Act?”
In his piece, ...

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January 12, 2018
Prior to the passage of the tax bill, Matthew Rossman, professor of law, wrote an op-ed on cleveland.com about why cutting back the individual deduction for state and local income taxes could harm cities like Cleveland.
In his piece, titled “Cutback of state and local tax deductions in GOP tax bill...

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January 09, 2018
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law at the ӰƵ School of Law, is among 45 newly elected members of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI).
The 90-year-old institute comprises exceptional judges, lawyers and legal academics internationally.
"It is a...