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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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February 27, 2017
From left: Mia Ulery , B-Buzz Chairman Wendell Fields and James Walsh
A recently resurrected historic Cleveland youth baseball league is gaining legal and financial footing, thanks to the work of two ӰƵ students.
Since fall, third-year law students Mia Ulery and James ...

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February 27, 2017
Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, will present "How Native Americans Protect Traditional Knowledge from Misappropriation" at the next Social Justice Institute Research Lunch Series event.
He will share a survey and analysis of tribal codes and how traditional knowledge and ...

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February 15, 2017
Judge Brian J. Corrigan will discuss “A Day in the Life of a Common Pleas Judge” at the next pre-law Community Hour event, Friday, Feb. 17, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356.
Judge Corrigan has served on the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court since 1993. He is a graduate of Cleveland...

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February 07, 2017
The Stanton Foundation awarded a $112,000 grant to ӰƵ School of Law’s Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts to support its recently launched First Amendment and the Arts (FAA) project, a new law lab offering students curriculum and experience with the evolv...

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February 07, 2017
Case involves how government handled detentions after 9/11 terror attacks
Four students at the ӰƵ School of Law can now say their experiences include preparing and filing an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief for the United States Supreme Court in a civil case inv...

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February 02, 2017
Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich named the School of Law’s Cassandra Burke Robertson one of four term-appointed commissioners on the Ohio State Council of Uniform State Laws.
Burke, professor of law and the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, will serve on the council until June 2018.
The cou...

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January 31, 2017
The next City Club @ Happy Dog event will address President Donald Trump’s executive order "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States."
A panel discussion, titled “Understanding the Executive Order on Immigration,” will feature two local legal scholars who will talk ...

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January 06, 2017
Juscelino F. Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, has three forthcoming articles. He also gave numerous presentations late last year.
Colares’ forthcoming articles:
“Not COOL: How the Appellate Body ...

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January 06, 2017
Richard Gordon, associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and professor of law, attended and gave presentations at three invitation-only conferences in December.
He attended a conference for 85 law enforcement officials from the Commonwealth Caribbean Dec. 8-9 in Port of ...

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December 15, 2016
Recent years have marked a dramatic transition from paper to electronic medical records. Simultaneously, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems allow for the creation of medical “big data”—massive collections of electronic data that can be used for medical research, public health initiatives and oth...