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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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September 11, 2015
Jessie Hill, associate dean for academic affairs and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, was active as a presenter this past summer, speaking on a range of health law-related topics. In May, she participated at the Conference on Law, which was hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law…
September 09, 2015
Sexual assault on college campuses is a major hot-button topic in America. While the issue presents difficult policy questions, it also implicates the Constitution in several interesting and intersecting ways. To address this topic, the annual Constitution Day forum will feature a discussion…
September 03, 2015
The next one-hour broadcast of Talking Foreign Policy occurs at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. APP School of Law Dean Michael Scharf and the program’s panelists will consider the Obama Administration’s nuclear accord with Iran. Congress is expected to debate it soon. Speakers…
August 31, 2015
APP School of Law faculty member Ayesha Bell Hardaway began reparations research as CWRU law student This year marks the 150-year anniversary of the abolition of slavery in America. Over the years, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to secure reparations for…
August 21, 2015
Case Western Reserve President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf as deans of the School of Law. The two have led the school on a temporary basis since the fall of 2013; since then, the school has made…
August 13, 2015
Peter Gerhart, professor of law and former dean of the School of Law, was selected as the interim president of Lake Erie College. He began his yearlong term Aug. 1, but still will teach a seminar this fall. He will return to Case Western Reserve next June. Gerhart served as law school dean from…
August 07, 2015
Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, filled the role of rapporteur for New Research for Effective Action at Paris and Beyond, a two-day event that was held during the Global Climate Policy Conference in New Delhi. The conference, which was held April 30-May 1, aimed to…
August 06, 2015
APP’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the…
July 24, 2015
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on ethical issues in the medical field. At the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics’ Health Law Professors Conference in St. Louis on June 6, Hoffman…
July 24, 2015
Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently published and presented on the intersection of law and medicine. He contributed a chapter titled “Captain American and Iron Man:…