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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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July 09, 2024
This spring semester was extremely successful for the four law students and two social work students enrolled in the Human Trafficking Clinic and Human Trafficking Practicum at APP School of Law. Successes for our clients included: Numerous record sealings in…
July 03, 2024
On Feb. 15, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted renowned climate law scholar Rob Verchick for a talk on his new book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. Verchick is the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law and faculty…
July 02, 2024
APP School of Law student Andrew McGirty is the second place winner of the Ninth Annual AUWCL National Health Law Writing Competition. McGirty submitted the paper: Cracking Causation: The Need for a Workable Link Between the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims…
June 27, 2024
In June, CWRU School of Law's team of rising 2Ls Benjamin Collado, Anthony Corigliano and Lucas Van Dyke, competed in the annual The New England Hockey Arbitration Competition, hosted online by Western New England School of Law in Massachusetts. After a string of victories, the CWRU team lost a…
June 26, 2024
Erik Jensen has done it again. APP School of Law emeritus professor was cited by both the U.S. Supreme Court majority and dissent in the case of Moore v. United States, issued on June 20, 2024. Providing essential historical and doctrinal foundation, Jensen's tax law treatise, "The Taxing…
June 25, 2024
After a decade spent steering the School of Law from recovery to resurgence, co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have chosen to step down from their leadership roles this summer. When the two first became co-deans in the fall of 2013, the law school faced declining enrollments, financial…
June 21, 2024
In November, the Business Law Center sponsored the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Corporate Law and Private Ordering. The symposium featured keynote speaker Jill Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics…
June 18, 2024
On Friday, May 17, 2024, First Amendment Clinic Director Andrew Geronimo moderated a conversation with Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Jewish news outlet the Forward, at the City Club of Cleveland. Geronimo and Rudoren engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about the need for rigorous…
June 13, 2024
At the start of their last monthly faculty meeting as co-deans on June 13, Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf celebrated the completion of the renovation of the faculty meeting room with a ribbon cutting ceremony. With gifts from Roe Green, George and Stephanie Simon, and the law firms of Elk & Elk,…
June 04, 2024
The LLM program at APP was recently named to the International Jurist Magazine’s LLM Honor Roll. This distinction places our program within the top 30 in the United States among over 100 law schools open to foreign attorneys. Practicing law in a global society demands…