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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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October 28, 2019
The School of Law will host David C. Dvorak, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of DeepThink Health Inc., for a talk Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom. His talk is titled “Advancing Medicine with Big Data: A Digital Health Company’s Perspective on the…
October 18, 2019
On Sept. 27, the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed APP Adjunct Professor of Law James Johnson the chief prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. Since 2013, Johnson has been the director of the APP School of…
October 14, 2019
Wheeler, a CWRU alum, joins more than a dozen nationally recognized environmental, legal experts at Oct. 18 symposium Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and APP alumnus, returns to campus as keynote speaker in a daylong symposium…
October 09, 2019
The APP School of Law's
Institute for Global Security Law & Policy and the Social Justice Institute
will welcome Lynn Tramonte, founder and director of Ohio Immigrant Alliance,
for a discussion Thursday, Oct. 10, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law’s
Moot…
October 01, 2019
Members of the community can tune into WCPN 90.3 FM today (Oct. 1) from 10 to 11 p.m. to hear School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf on the next installment of “Talking Foreign Policy.” “Talking Foreign Policy” is produced by Case Western Reserve
University in partnership with WCPN 90.3 ideastream.…
September 27, 2019
Research by Anat Alon-Beck, an assistant professor at the APP School of Law, about unicorn companies was brought to the attention of the U.S. Congress. Renee Jones, of the Boston College Law School testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the topic…
September 27, 2019
Over the summer, second-year APP
School of Law student George Kamanda returned to his native Sierra Leone for
the first time in nearly eight years. He came to the United States in March
2012 to join his mother and pursue higher education. But his passion for his country…
September 26, 2019
APP law professor Anat Alon-Beck makes a case for regulatory reform for tech startups worth more than $1 billion Until just a few years ago,
many talented workers chose to hustle for a promising technology startup
company, often for lower pay, long hours and a…
September 06, 2019
For two weeks last spring, Quentin Sims flew back and forth
between Albany and Cleveland, alternating between taking exams as he completed
his first year of law school and playing in Arena Football League games with
the Albany Empire. Last month, the team secured the Arena Football…
August 23, 2019
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law,
provided analysis on a court’s decision to throw out a suit against President
Donald Trump, which claimed he had broken the emoluments clause. NBC News published his piece, titled “Trump’s emoluments case win shows challenging him in the…