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Recent News

Law’s Sharona Hoffman presents two papers at health law professor conference
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, recently presented two papers at the Health Law Professors Conference at Seton Hall Law School. Her papers, titled “Big Bad Data: Law, Public Policy, and Biomedical Databases” and “Comparative Effectiveness Research,” were presented June 7-8....
Munch cafe in the law school open to all; operating on summer hours
Munch: A Simple Kitchen (formerly known as Shticks) at the School of Law is open all summer to the public, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Munch also has grown its catering menu. Check it out at Wade Oval Wednesdays and online at www.munch216.com....
5 questions with…adjunct professor of law and rock star, Mark Avsec
Cleveland native Mark Avsec’s big break in the music industry came in 1975, when he was asked to play keyboard on a new song by the Steubenville band Wild Cherry. That famous song, “Play That Funky Music (White Boy)” served as the jumping off point for Avsec’s long, successful career in the arena o...
Law’s Sharona Hoffman awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, was one of six health law professors to be awarded a Scholars in Residence Fellowship by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Fellowship program is run by The Network for Public Health Law. Hoffman wi...
Law’s Colares finds nations increasingly support restricting greenhouse gas emissions
ӰƵ School of Law Professor Juscelino F. Colares’ recent research concludes global economic forces are pushing the United States and other countries toward a binding international environmental treaty. In a recent Journal of World Trade article, Colares investigated the ...
Jonathan Adler’s research cited in Supreme Court dissenting opinion
Research by Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, was cited in Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ dissenting opinion in a case that produced a significant administrative law ruling. In City of Arlington v. FCC, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that courts should defer to ...
Law’s Max Mehlman publishes two papers and presents a third
Max Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, published, “The Pros and Cons of Practice Guidelines,” in Trial, this May, and “Enhanced Warfighters: A Policy Framework” in Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century. He also presented “Medical Practice Guidelines and the Legal Standard of...
Law’s Sharona Hoffman leads symposium, publishes paper on ”Big Bad Data”
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, organized, moderated and spoke at a ӰƵ Law School symposium titled “Balancing Privacy, Autonomy, and Scientific Progress: Patients’ Rights and the Use of Electronic Medical Records for Non-Treatment Purposes.” The full-day progra...
Law’s Avidan Cover to publish paper on judicial risk assessment post-9/11
Earlier this year, Avidan Cover, an assistant professor in the School of Law, moderated a discussion with Jose Antonio Vargas, author of My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, as part of the Town Hall of Cleveland Speaker Series. In addition, Cover’s paper, “Presumed Imminence: Judicial Risk Assessm...
Law’s Charles Korsmo presents, publishes paper on “Venture Capital and Preferred Stock”
Charles Korsmo, assistant professor at the ӰƵ School of Law, recently presented at two conferences and has a paper forthcoming for publication. He presented his paper “Venture Capital and Preferred Stock” twice: March 5 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney Schoo...