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School of Law ranked among the best law schools for its specialty areas
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools. Based on its collective specialty rankings, ӰƵ School of Law ranked 42nd best in the nation. That’s up ten places from its #52 specialty ranking last year. Nin...
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Student Spotlight: Tiffany Johnston
Towards the end of her 2L year, Tiffany Johnston received some unexpected but welcome news—she was pregnant. “I’ve been told since I was 16 that it would be nearly impossible for me to have a child naturally,” Johnston said. “We originally thought it might have been cancer, but she turned out to b...
Health Matrix Holds Annual Banquet to Celebrate Journal’s Achievements
On April 21, 2024, students and faculty gathered at a local restaurant to celebrate the publication of volume 34 of Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine and all of the student editors’ hard work. Health Matrix is currently ranked #3 among 57 journals worldwide that are included in the category of ...
LLEAP Adjunct Spotlight: Holly Marie Wilson Invites Students to Practice Using Their Voices
In the law school’s Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program, practicing attorneys teach a simulation component in each course. Holly Marie Wilson is one of three such adjunct professors who leads simulations in Melissa Ghrist’s LLEAP 3 – Appe...
Yemen Accountability Project publishes fifth white paper
The Yemen Accountability Project is proud to announce the publication of its fifth white paper, Gender Based Violence and the Yemen Civil War. The conflict in Yemen has brought about widespread suffering and devastation, with millions of civilians caught in the crossfire. However, women and girls ha...
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Professor and four alums receive honors at alumni luncheon
The law school hosted an alumni luncheon at the stunning art deco Silver Grille in the old Higbee building downtown on April 10 with several hundred alums and faculty in attendance. A professor and four alumni selected by the Law Alumni Association received honors at the luncheon. In addition, a sur...
Trevin Crider Wins 2024 Dunmore Moot Court Competition
Trevin Crider is the champion of this year’s ӰƵ School of Law Dean Dunmore Moot Court Competition! Twenty-nine students competed in the intramural appellate-advocacy tournament named for Thomas Dunmore, who served as the School of Law’s dean from 1910 to 1945. Second-yea...
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Information Sessions: Compliance and Risk Management Degree Programs
The Compliance, Risk Management, and Financial Integrity Institute invites all to attend two virtual information sessions Tuesday, April 23, from 6 to 7 p.m., and Wednesday, April 24, from noon to 1 p.m. The sessions will take place in room 260C of the law school, located at 11075 East Blvd These a...
Immigration Law Clinic students help clients in need
Spring 2024 Immigration Law Clinic students have helped a variety of clients with a range of immigration matters including asylum, citizenship and green card applications. For example, this semester they have represented an applicant seeking asylum from his native country due to his sexual orienta...
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A Q&A with alum James Diggs (LAW '73)
A 1970 graduate of ӰƵ and 1973 graduate of our law school, Jim Diggs served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice in Cleveland, was vice president and assistant general counsel of TRW Inc., and then served as senior vice president and general counsel o...