international law
June 24, 2020
As Chairman of the Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court Competition, Dean Michael Scharf annually drafts the problem and bench memo for the competition, which this year included participants from 75 schools from over 50 countries. Unfortunately, the International Round of…
May 28, 2020
Until now, the question of what laws govern the Great Lakes was not so easy to answer. Stephen J. Petras, Jr., director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the U.S. National Director of the Canada - United States Law Institute, is leading an effort to develop a comprehensive…
May 27, 2020
Brian Gran, a professor in both the Law School and the Department of Sociology, has been selected as a National Academy of Sciences Jefferson Science Fellow by the U.S. Department of State. During his year-long fellowship at the State Department, Gran will focus on children’s and human rights. …
April 20, 2020
In ranking ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Law’s International Law Program among the top 10 in the nation last month, PreLaw Magazine recognized the law school’s funded internships as the secret to placing so many of its graduates in the field of international law. Every summer, dozens…
April 13, 2020
ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Law Professor Juscelino Colares has been re-appointed for the sixth time to serve on the U.S. Roster of NAFTA Chapter 19 Trade arbitrators. Colares is the Schott-van den Eynden professor of business law and co-director of the law school’s Cox International…
March 18, 2020
Leading figure in international justice, humanitarian law and human rights The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence
at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ will award Judge
Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi, a leading
figure in international justice, humanitarian law and human…
March 02, 2020
Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. El Salvador is currently in the process of…
February 27, 2020
On February 25, 2020, the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ Journal of International Law hosted its first-ever alumni reunion at the Butcher and Brewer tavern in Cleveland. Nearly a hundred alumni and student editors gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Journal and hear remarks by its founder,…
January 30, 2020
For the third year in a row, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Law’s International Law Program was ranked among the top in the nation, with an A+ rating, according to the Winter 2020 issue of PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist. View the ranking, which was based on the…
January 16, 2020
On Jan. 3, 2020, President Trump ordered a drone strike in Iraq, killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Five days later, Iran responded by launching 22 ballistic missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq. Was the U.S. airstrike a lawful act of self-defense under international law? Was it…