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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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January 15, 2014
Case Western Reserve Distinguished University Professor Paul C. Giannelli, recognized nationally for his extensive legal research in scientific evidence, was selected to serve on a newly created federal commission on forensic science. The new National Commission on Forensic Science, created…
January 10, 2014
Jessie Hill, professor of law, served as a panelist and moderator at multiple discussions throughout the end of last year. On Nov. 6, she served as a panelist for a discussion on voting rights after Shelby County v. Holder, sponsored by the APP Law School Black Law…
January 06, 2014
The APP School of Law will host the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition Feb. 7-9 at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse. The National Trial Competition (NTC) is one of the most prestigious law school mock trial competitions in the nation, and was…
January 03, 2014
Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate professor of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, recently published an article in Bloomberg BNA, a leading source of legal, regulatory and business information for professionals. His article, titled "In Search of Policy Coherence:…
January 03, 2014
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, moderated a roundtable for Physicians Money Digest about electronic health records and their impact on medical malpractice claims. Also, Hoffman's paper with Andy Podgurski—“The Use and Misuse of…
December 20, 2013
Program highlights his new book about historic moments that quickly change the course of international law C-SPAN Book TV will broadcast APP law professor Michael P. Scharf’s recent talk at the City Club of Cleveland about his new book examining world events that…
November 25, 2013
Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, was appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to serve on the 2013-2014 U.S. roster of North American Free Trade Agreement panelists. Colares was selected to serve…
November 19, 2013
Juscelino F. Colares, professor of law, presented “Climate Change-Related Litigation: Signal or Noise?” at the University of Tennessee’s College of Law Sept. 20 and “The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem? A 2013 Update,” at the University of Arizona on Sept. 26. He also gave…
November 15, 2013
APP announced the appointment of two of its renowned scholars—one in health law and the other in international law—as acting deans for the School of Law, effective immediately. Jessica Berg, professor of law, bioethics and public health, and Michael Scharf, associate…
November 12, 2013
The Environmental Law Society will host a screening of the award-winning documentary, Bidder 70, the story of one university student's act of civil disobedience to protect the American wilderness from oil and gas exploitation. In 2008, Tim DeChristopher placed a bid on 14 parcels (22,500 acres) of…