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School of Law Hosts George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy
On Friday, Nov. 8, the Center for Business Law hosted the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy. The event focused on relational contracting—which is the acknowledgement that contracts often rely heavily on trust between parties and implicit and...
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ӰƵ Law student argues case in Ninth District Court of Appeals
ӰƵ law student Robert Read recently made an oral argument in front of the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Summit County, presenting a case for a client charged with criminal damaging of a window. Read argued that the evidence presented was circumstantial, unrelated to...
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Law’s Daniel Leizerman earns recognition from The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
Daniel Leizerman, a student at ӰƵ School of Law, will receive The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland’s Volunteer Lawyers Program 2024 Access to Justice Award. This award is presented in recognition of significant contribution to advancing the mission of the Legal Aid Societ...
From Gund Hall to the Security Council, George Kamanda (LAW ‘22) discusses his exciting international career
A native of Sierra Leone who enrolled in CWRU School of Law “because of its strong international law programs and excellent reputation,” George Shadrack Kamanda graduated from our Law School in 2022 while simultaneously earning a Master’s Degree in Public International Law from Oxford University in ...
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2024 Graduate Corey Whetzel Wins Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award
Corey Whetzel (LAW '24) recently won the American Society for Pharmacy Law’s (ASPL) Larry M. Simonsmeier Writing Award. He was selected for his paper “No Way FDA, Let States Lead the Way on Expanding the Prescriptive Authority of Pharmacists,” which was published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law Med...
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Environmental Law Institute’s Jay Pendergrass speaks to Environmental Law Class
In October, professor Victor Flatt’s Environmental Law class was joined by Jay Pendergrass, the former Vice President and Current Senior Advisor to the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in Washington, D.C. During his over 3 decades at the ELI, Pendergrass has helped tackle numerous environmental iss...
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Professors Adler and Flatt preview environmental cases in federal court
On Oct. 16, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, a challenge to the EPA’s use of “generic” prohibitions in Clean Water Act permits. On Sept. 24, professor Jonathan Adler moderated a webinar previewing the arguments and iss...
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2024 LEET Symposium: “Relational Contracting in the New Industrial Policy”
The 20th century has witnessed the de-verticalization of production and the rise of collaborative agreements in both the biopharma and manufacturing sectors. Prior scholarship has led to a rich inquiry into these collaborations with different explanations for their governance and contracts. Some hig...
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Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary discusses federal land and energy management
On Sept. 19, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted Deputy Assistant Secretary Kati Kovacs from the U.S. Department of the Interior to discuss how federal agencies navigate the rulemaking process. Kovacs is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals ...
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CWRU’s Michael Scharf leads team to prepare Ukrainian judges and prosecutors to try environmental war crimes and ecocide
In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, destruction of the environment has not just been an indirect result of the fighting; Russia has purposely targeted the environment to demoralize the Ukraine population. The Ukraine government has thus made the prosecution of environmental war crimes ...