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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
ӰƵ's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles

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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
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November 20, 2024
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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November 18, 2024
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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November 15, 2024
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...
November 13, 2024
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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November 13, 2024
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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November 11, 2024
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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November 07, 2024
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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November 06, 2024
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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November 05, 2024
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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November 01, 2024
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 ...