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Recent News

Volunteer to help with National Trial Competition Feb. 7-9
The ӰƵ School of Law will host the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition Feb. 7-9 at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse. The National Trial Competition (NTC) is one of the most prestigious law school mock trial competitions in the nation, and was create...
Law Professor Juscelino Colares publishes article on U.S. free trade policy
Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate professor of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, recently published an article in Bloomberg BNA, a leading source of legal, regulatory and business information for professionals. His article, titled "In Search of Policy Coherence: Upholdi...
Law’s Sharona Hoffman moderates roundtable, publishes paper
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, moderated a roundtable for Physicians Money Digest about electronic health records and their impact on medical malpractice claims. Also, Hoffman's paper with Andy Podgurski—“The Use and Misuse of Biomedi...
Law professor Michael Scharf to be featured on C-SPAN Book TV
Program highlights his new book about historic moments that quickly change the course of international law C-SPAN Book TV will broadcast ӰƵ law professor Michael P. Scharf’s recent talk at the City Club of Cleveland about his new book examining world events that change...
Law's Juscelino Colares appointed to NAFTA panel
Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, was appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to serve on the 2013-2014 U.S. roster of North American Free Trade Agreement panelists. Colares was selected to serve on...
Law’s Juscelino Colares publishes multiple articles, presents around the country
Juscelino F. Colares, professor of law, presented “Climate Change-Related Litigation: Signal or Noise?” at the University of Tennessee’s College of Law Sept. 20 and “The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem? A 2013 Update,” at the University of Arizona on Sept. 26. He also gave th...
Health and international law experts tapped as acting law school deans
ӰƵ announced the appointment of two of its renowned scholars—one in health law and the other in international law—as acting deans for the School of Law, effective immediately. Jessica Berg, professor of law, bioethics and public health, and Michael Scharf, associate dean...
Environmental Law Society to host screening of documentary, "Bidder 70"
The Environmental Law Society will host a screening of the award-winning documentary, Bidder 70, the story of one university student's act of civil disobedience to protect the American wilderness from oil and gas exploitation. In 2008, Tim DeChristopher placed a bid on 14 parcels (22,500 acres) of ...
Law school team takes first place at mock trial competition
ӰƵ School of Law earned top honors in Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s 2013 Public Service Mock Trial Competition. The competition, which took place at the Franklin County Courthouse, was designed to provide a valuable learning opportunity for Ohio law school student...
Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro to speak on campus Oct. 23
The ӰƵ chapter of the American Constitution Society will host former Ohio Attorney General and CWRU alumnus Jim Petro on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Petro recently became the second statewide-elected Republican official in Ohio (after U.S. Senator Rob Portman) to support marria...