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Recent News

Law’s Dale Nance to present at developing nations symposium
Dale Nance, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law, has been invited to present at “The Foundations of the Law of Evidence and Their Implications for Developing Countries” conference. Nance will present “The Weight of Evidence and the Design of Adjudicative Systems” at the conference, which will be h...
Law’s Maxwell Mehlman has three works published on ”super soldiers,” genomic technology
Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, wrote three works that recently were published. “Super Soldiers (Part 1): What is Military Enhancement?” and “Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational Impl...
Law Professor Kathryn Mercer presents around the world
Kathryn Mercer, professor of lawyering skills in the School of Law, has presented around the world in recent months. In May, she co-presented with Law Professor Jonathan Gordon at Global Legal Skills Conference IX in Verona, Italy. The title of their talk was “A Multi-Cultural Perspective on Plagiar...
Law students file suit in federal court on behalf of 11 homeless people in Akron
When Rebecca Sremack was a third-year student last year in ӰƵ School of Law’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic, the Akron native found a way to link her dedication to important causes in her hometown with the Kramer Clinic’s mission. Sremack, who graduated last spring with a...
Burton D. Morgan Foundation commits to CWRU’s IP Venture Clinic, Blackstone LaunchPad
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation committed $679,400 to expand ӰƵ School of Law’s intellectual property (IP) center, among the more than $2.5 million in grants recently approved by trustees of the Hudson, Ohio-based private foundation. In addition, the foundation pledged ...
Law students gain hands-on legal experience working with Juvenile Safe Surrender clients
Kathryn Geisinger, a third-year law student at ӰƵ, wasn’t quite sure how busy her Monday morning would be. But within the first three hours of the first-ever Juvenile Safe Surrender program in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, there she was, working with defendants in five...
Faculty member Sharona Hoffman to be published in “Berkeley Technology Law Journal”
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently had her work, “Citizen Science: The Law and Ethics of Public Access to Medical Big Data” accepted for publication in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal....
Spangenberg Family Foundation to endow Intellectual Property Law Center at School of Law
The Spangenberg Family Foundation, a Dallas-based philanthropic organization established by the family of ӰƵ School of Law alumnus Erich Spangenberg, committed $3 million to endow the university’s Intellectual Property (IP) Center. The newly endowed Spangenberg Center f...
Law’s Juscelino Colares recognized for article on litigation
Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) presented Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, with an award for one of the three best articles of the year at SEALS conference Aug. 2 in Amelia Island, Fla. The paper, titled “Pl...
Law’s Ruqaiijah Yearby presents on health, race
Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor of law and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on health and race at ӰƵ and in San Francisco, Calif. She served as a panelist and moderator at the School of Law on the topic of “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and T...