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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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November 12, 2014
School of Law professor has analyzed data from 178 environmental lawsuits Legal attempts to deter major emitters of environment-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been ineffective and are unlikely to have much effect for years, a Case Western Reserve School of Law professor concludes in…
November 11, 2014
What began as legal analysis of the Affordable Care Act after it became law in 2010 now has APP School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler close to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review. At stake is the future of the law known as Obamacare, which…
November 07, 2014
Dale Nance, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law, has been invited to present at “The Foundations of the Law of Evidence and Their Implications for Developing Countries” conference. Nance will present “The Weight of Evidence and the Design of Adjudicative Systems” at the conference, which will be…
October 17, 2014
Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, wrote three works that recently were published. “Super Soldiers (Part 1): What is Military Enhancement?” and “Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational…
October 17, 2014
Kathryn Mercer, professor of lawyering skills in the School of Law, has presented around the world in recent months. In May, she co-presented with Law Professor Jonathan Gordon at Global Legal Skills Conference IX in Verona, Italy. The title of their talk was “A Multi-Cultural Perspective on…
October 08, 2014
When Rebecca Sremack was a third-year student last year in APP School of Law’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic, the Akron native found a way to link her dedication to important causes in her hometown with the Kramer Clinic’s mission. Sremack, who graduated last spring with…
October 08, 2014
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation committed $679,400 to expand APP School of Law’s intellectual property (IP) center, among the more than $2.5 million in grants recently approved by trustees of the Hudson, Ohio-based private foundation. In addition, the foundation pledged…
September 24, 2014
Kathryn Geisinger, a third-year law student at APP, wasn’t quite sure how busy her Monday morning would be. But within the first three hours of the first-ever Juvenile Safe Surrender program in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, there she was, working with defendants in…
September 19, 2014
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently had her work, “Citizen Science: The Law and Ethics of Public Access to Medical Big Data” accepted for publication in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
September 05, 2014
The Spangenberg Family Foundation, a Dallas-based philanthropic organization established by the family of APP School of Law alumnus Erich Spangenberg, committed $3 million to endow the university’s Intellectual Property (IP) Center. The newly endowed Spangenberg Center…