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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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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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November 07, 2014
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...
October 17, 2014
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...
October 17, 2014
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...
October 08, 2014
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...
October 08, 2014
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 ...
September 24, 2014
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...
September 19, 2014
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....
September 05, 2014
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...
August 15, 2014
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...
August 08, 2014
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...