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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 26, 2016
Avidan Cover, associate professor of law, will discuss security law and domestic and international use of force at the next pre-law Community Hour event, Friday, Oct. 28 from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356. Cover is director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy. He…
October 21, 2016
Katelyn Pierce has wanted to be an attorney since she was a child. For Galen Baynes, lawyering came to mind only after he earned his bachelor’s degree. Now, as third-year law students at Case Western Reserve, they are gaining unusual real-world experience in the profession they hope to practice:…
October 12, 2016
A conference Friday, Oct. 14, at APP School of Law, honors and features 1954 graduate Fred D. Gray, one of the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers. “In Honor of Fred Gray: Making Civil Rights Law from Rosa Parks to the Twenty-first Century” will offer a day-long…
September 30, 2016
More than 50 years later, questions remain about the JFK assassination. Do the conspiracy theories have validity? What if Lee Harvey Oswald lived to see his trial? On Oct. 6, Judge Burt W. Griffin, a former staff member of the Warren Commission, along with a distinguished panel of legal experts,…
September 30, 2016
APP School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf hosts a panel of international law experts—including the director of the International Bar Association, an International Truth commissioner—to discuss art, diplomacy and accountability in the next Talking Foreign Policy radio…
September 23, 2016
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, has had many recent publications, including: “Of Kings to Come: The Future of Health Care Reform Still Remains in Federal Court,” Journal of Employee Rights and Employment Policy (2016) (symposium, solicited) “Rights Before…
September 16, 2016
The Supreme Court appears to have taken a greater interest in "business" issues in recent years. Has the court also become "pro-business"? Experts from around the country will provide analysis and answers to that question during the George A. Leet Business Law Conference,…
September 15, 2016
The Office of Undergraduate Studies will host a pre-law event with School of Law Co-Dean Jessica Berg, who will give a talk titled "Where Law and Medicine Meet: Teaching Bioethics in a Top Ten Health Law Department." Berg will discuss bioethics law and her experiences teaching it at CWRU. Her…
September 14, 2016
Lawrence Douglas The School of Law will host a guest lecture by Amherst College Professor Lawrence Douglas, whose book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk & the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, was recently published by Princeton University Press. The lecture, held Tuesday, Sept. 20 from…
September 09, 2016
International law has regulated art preservation and transfer for decades, but action by terrorists to wipe out religious and cultural assets has magnified the issue. APP School of Law will host a full-day conference titled “The Art of International Law” Sept. 16. The…