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Next “Talking Foreign Policy” program with Law Dean Michael Scharf to focus on Iran nuclear accord
The next one-hour broadcast of Talking Foreign Policy occurs at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. ӰƵ School of Law Dean Michael Scharf and the program’s panelists will consider the Obama Administration’s nuclear accord with Iran. Congress is expected to debate it soon. Speakers o...
Legal research paper: U.S. has common law trust obligation to African-Americans 150 years after slavery ended
ӰƵ School of Law faculty member Ayesha Bell Hardaway began reparations research as CWRU law student This year marks the 150-year anniversary of the abolition of slavery in America. Over the years, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to secure reparations for A...
Interim leaders no more: Law’s Berg and Scharf named deans
ӰƵ President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf as deans of the School of Law. The two have led the school on a temporary basis since the fall of 2013; since then, the school has made signifi...
Law’s Peter Gerhart named interim president of Lake Erie College
Peter Gerhart, professor of law and former dean of the School of Law, was selected as the interim president of Lake Erie College. He began his yearlong term Aug. 1, but still will teach a seminar this fall. He will return to ӰƵ next June. Gerhart served as law school dean from 198...
Law’s Dalindyebo Shabalala reports on proceedings of conference in New Delhi
Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, filled the role of rapporteur for New Research for Effective Action at Paris and Beyond, a two-day event that was held during the Global Climate Policy Conference in New Delhi. The conference, which was held April 30-May 1, aimed to address...
More fundraising records fall
ӰƵ’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the previous...
Law’s Sharona Hoffman presents on ethical issues in medical field
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on ethical issues in the medical field. At the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ Health Law Professors Conference in St. Louis on June 6, Hoffman pr...
Law’s Maxwell Mehlman writes about intersection of law, medicine
Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published and presented on the intersection of law and medicine. He contributed a chapter titled “Captain American and Iron Man: B...
Law’s Robert N. Strassfeld, Calvin Sharpe contribute to law textbook
Robert N. Strassfeld, professor of law, and Calvin Sharpe, the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation, contributed to the fourth edition of Understanding Labor Law. Strassfeld and Sharpe wrote the book with Douglas E. Ray, dean and professor of law at St. Thomas University School o...
Law’s Avidan Y. Cover discusses Iran Nuclear Deal as part of "Happy Dog Takes on the World" series
Earlier this month, Avidan Y. Cover, assistant professor of law and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, participated in the “Happy Dog Takes on the World” discussion on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Cover and Joshua Stacher, associate professor of political science at Kent State ...