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Amid global pandemic and growing racial injustices, how an EMBA from Weatherhead has helped Frank Whitfield lead as Mayor of Elyria
As a high school student, Frank Whitfield, MGT '19, knew his career goals included completing his MBA. “I’ve always been passionate about business and the power of entrepreneurship and how it can change the trajectory of your life while making a difference in your community,” Whitfield said. “So…
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Professor Ayesha Bell Hardaway quoted in New York Times article on police contracts
Ayesha Bell Hardaway, assistant professor of law and director of the law school's Social Justice Law Center, was recently quoted in a New York Times article examining how collective bargaining agreements for officers provide protections that stand in the way of accountability. According to the…
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Professor Adler featured in Supreme Court Myths podcast
On July 15, CWRU Law Professor Jonathan Adler was interviewed on the Supreme Myths podcast with Georgia State University College of Law Professor Eric J. Segall, the author of Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. Professors…
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Weatherhead School of Management Cancels 2020 Weatherhead 100 Gala, Sets Eyes on 2021
Due to ongoing coronavirus concerns, the Weatherhead School of Management has announced it is canceling the 2020 Weatherhead 100 awards and gala event that was set to take place in December. In what would have been its 33rd year, the annual event was established to recognize elite companies in…
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Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall (’90) to discuss new book in City Club conversation series
CWRU Law alumna Capricia Penavic Marshall ('90) will speak at The City Club of Cleveland 's Authors in Conversation Series online forum on July 24 at 12:30 p.m. A first-generation American of Mexican and Croatian descent, Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall has spent two decades laying the…
Professor Sharona Hoffman Quoted in Los Angeles Times about Airplane Mask Requirements
Professor Hoffman was quoted in an article entitled ““Don’t Want to Wear a Mask on the Plane? Too Bad. Airlines Now Will Require It,” published in the Los Angeles Times on June 29, 2020.  Professor Hoffman explained that “Airlines are private businesses and airlines have a right to have rules of…
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Professor Gran awarded grant from National Science Foundation to study COVID-19 and deterioration of human rights
Brian Gran, a professor in both the law school and the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded a RAPID grant from the Law and Science Program of the National Science Foundation. The project, "COVID-19 and Derogation of Human Rights," will model and assess socio-legal responses to…
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Pamela B. Davis returns to faculty after 13 years as School of Medicine dean
Tenure included Northeast Ohio’s two largest federal research grants, gains for Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cleveland Clinic collaboration to create Health Education Campus After a 13-year tenure that saw the School of Medicine swing from multi-million-dollar deficits to record-breaking…