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APP School of Law hosts historic signing of ‘Tanisha’s Law,’ advancing Cleveland’s mental health crisis response
APP School of Law served as the backdrop for a major shift in Cleveland’s public safety and mental health strategy as Mayor Justin M. Bibb (LAW ’18) signed “Tanisha’s Law,” landmark legislation creating a new civilian-led response to mental health crisis calls. The…
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February 20, 2020
On February 15, the CWRU Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team received the highest average score of the 10 competing teams in the EODID Athens Vis Pre-Moot competition. The team was represented by 3Ls Teresa Azzam and Kathleen Burke. This semester, the team will also compete in…
February 14, 2020
Former FBI Director James Comey spent two hours with Adjunct Professors Jonathan Leiken and Caitlin Bell’s White Collar Crime students on Tuesday, February 11. Professor Leiken worked for Mr. Comey as an AUSA at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the two have…
February 13, 2020
The School of Law’s international law moot court team went undefeated in the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Championship held Feb. 7-9. The group finished the weekend 4-0 and was the top seed out of 24 law schools after the preliminary rounds. The team received a Top 5 Best Brief…
February 11, 2020
It is widely recognized that publishing improves teaching. Scholarly writing enables professors to bring up-to-date information into the classroom and share their research on cutting edge developments with their students. We are happy to announce that our faculty has been ranked among the top in…
February 10, 2020
APP School of Law’s Jessup International Law Moot Court Team went undefeated over the weekend in the Chicago Regional Competition held Feb. 7-9, 2020. The team went 4-0 and was the top seed out of 24 law schools after the preliminary rounds. The team received the award…
February 07, 2020
When Professor Wendy Wagner of the University of Texas School of Law was working on her book, "Incomprehensible! A study of how our legal system encourages incomprehensibility, why it matters, and what we can do about it," she asked Professor Juliet Kostritsky, the director of CWRU law school's…
February 05, 2020
APP law professor suggests consumers may need help managing technology ownership Imagine
a future in which every consumer purchase is as complex as choosing a mobile
phone. What will ongoing service cost? Is it compatible with your other
devices? Can you move data and…
February 04, 2020
Surveys indicate that there is growing interest among prospective law students in public interest law, which includes work for the government, Legal Aid and other non-profits. This year, PreLaw Magazine, a publication of National Jurist, ranked APP Law School the…
February 02, 2020
Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Distinguished University Professor and director of the Law-Medicine Center, present "The Promise and Peril of Human Genetic Engineering." The event will be held Friday, Feb. 7, from 12:45 to…
January 22, 2020
Congratulations to first-year law students Sierra Lipscomb and Makela Hayford for a fantastic finish at the 1L Law Student Diversity Case Competition hosted by the University of Cincinnati College of Law and Keating Muething & Klekamp. Lipscomb and Hayford placed third out of 18 teams from eight…