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Vis International Moot Court team excels in Vienna
The CWRU Vis International Moot Court team recently excelled at their competition in Vienna, reaching the elimination round of 32 (out of 400 competing teams) for the first time in school history. The team was tied as the final remaining American school in the competition. The team is comprised of ...
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Yemen Accountability Project publishes sixth white paper
The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) is proud to announce the publication of its sixth white paper, Torture and the Yemen Civil War. Torture is a crime of such gravity that the International Court of Justice has identified it as jus cogens, or a peremptory norm of international law. Despite the cr...
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BLSA Mock Trial team places Second at National Championship
ӰƵ School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team program reached a new milestone at the 2025 Constance Baker Motley National Mock Trial Competition. For the first time in this program's history, two teams advanced to the national stage, an unpreced...
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Exploring the world and the law: a CWRU Law student’s journey
As she approaches graduation this May, Maya Kapur reflects on her transformative time at the School of Law. Her academic journey has been enriched not only by her coursework and involvement in various student organizations, but also by a study abroad experience that expanded her legal perspective be...
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School of Law earns highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio
The ӰƵ School of Law again has the highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio, according to the just-released 2025 US News & World Report law school rankings. In the latest rankings, the environmental law program’s ranking moved up six spots, from 36 to...
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CWRU School of Law specialty programs ranked highly by U.S. News
The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with ӰƵ School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive specialty rank...
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Dr. Yaron Covo to join Law-Medicine faculty
The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining ӰƵ as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023). He is curre...
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Law School hosts national forum for medical students
The Law-Medicine Center hosted a two-day conference on February 21-22, 2025, entitled “Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students.” At the conference, medical and legal experts described the challenges that physicians face ...
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Balancing Baseball and the Law
Somewhere between studying, attending classes and networking with employers, second-year law student Jack Anderson makes time to pursue another passion: baseball. As a six-year member of the ӰƵ baseball team, Anderson has mastered the art of time management, carefully co...
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CWRU School of Law mourns the passing of Louise McKinney
The ӰƵ School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Louise McKinney, who died on Tuesday, March 18. McKinney joined the clinical faculty in 1989 after serving as the Director of the Clinical Education Programme at the University of Botswana...