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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 18, 2023
Dr. Amy Acton, former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, delivered the 2023 served as the Law-Medicine Center’s 2023 Schroeder Scholar in Residence. Her lecture was entitled “The Leader We Wish We All Had Is YOU: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Acton gave a first-hand account of…
October 18, 2023
Members of the APP and local communities are invited to join the Social Justice Institute for an R+R (Research and Refreshments) session Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Public Library, Harvey Rice branch (11535 Shaker Blvd.). During R+R sessions,…
October 18, 2023
The Federalist Society at the School of Law will host a talk by Keith Whittington from Princeton Thursday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in Gund Hall, Room 157. In a talk titled “Under Attack? Academic Freedom in Higher Education,” Whittington will discuss academic freedom, and if it is threatened by the…
October 18, 2023
The School of Law will host the annual APP Law Review Symposium Friday, Nov. 3, from 9:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in Gund Hall, Room A59. The focus of this year’s event will be judicial conduct, ethics and reform. Following a series of high-profile ethics inquiries and calls…
October 16, 2023
The Ben C. Green Law Library was gifted the Judge Charles R. Richey papers in the late 1990s. The gift had a twenty-five-year moratorium placed on his papers, which was lifted during the pandemic. The law library is now organizing the documents and digitizing the most essential case files. Three of…
October 16, 2023
Overcoming political polarization will be necessary to enact meaningful policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risk of climate change. This was the message the University of Colorado’s Professor Matthew Burgess presented in his lecture “Depolarizing Climate Change in the United…
October 13, 2023
Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) students enrolled in the school of law recently took a day trip to the oldest state park in the U.S.—Niagara Falls. “Our students get an excellent legal education, but their experiences outside the classroom have an equal impact on their…
October 11, 2023
The Honorable Shalanda H. Baker, director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, joined the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law for a conversation on her work promoting and overseeing the federal government’s energy justice initiatives. Prior to…
October 10, 2023
Q&A with Cassandra Robertson, Faculty Director of the Program The Online Part-Time JD program (accepting applications now for fall 2024 start) is under the direction of Cassandra Robertson, John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law, who has developed expertise in online learning. Here,…
October 10, 2023
In September, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted a group of interdisciplinary scholars for a workshop on “Permitting the Future.” This workshop examined the legal and economic aspects of permitting and review requirements for new technologies, infrastructure and development,…