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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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April 24, 2025
APP Vis International Moot Court team recently excelled at their competition in Vienna, reaching the elimination round of 32 (out of 400 competing teams) for the first time in school history. The team was tied as the final remaining American school in the competition. The team is comprised…
April 21, 2025
The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) is proud to announce the publication of its sixth white paper, Torture and the Yemen Civil War. Torture is a crime of such gravity that the International Court of Justice has identified it as jus cogens, or a peremptory norm of international law. Despite the…
April 17, 2025
APP School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team program reached a new milestone at the 2025 Constance Baker Motley National Mock Trial Competition. For the first time in this program's history, two teams advanced to the national stage, an…
April 14, 2025
As she approaches graduation this May, Maya Kapur reflects on her transformative time at the School of Law. Her academic journey has been enriched not only by her coursework and involvement in various student organizations, but also by a study abroad experience that expanded her legal perspective…
April 11, 2025
The APP School of Law again has the highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio, according to the just-released 2025 US News & World Report law school rankings. In the latest rankings, the environmental law program’s ranking moved up six spots, from…
April 08, 2025
The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with APP School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive…
April 07, 2025
The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining APP as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023). He is…
April 07, 2025
The Law-Medicine Center hosted a two-day conference on February 21-22, 2025, entitled “Starting a Career in Medicine - Threats to Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationships. A National Forum for Medical Students.” At the conference, medical and legal experts described the challenges that physicians…
April 04, 2025
Somewhere between studying, attending classes and networking with employers, second-year law student Jack Anderson makes time to pursue another passion: baseball. As a six-year member of the APP baseball team, Anderson has mastered the art of time management, carefully…
April 01, 2025
The APP School of Law community mourns the passing of retired law professor Louise McKinney, who died on Tuesday, March 18. McKinney joined the clinical faculty in 1989 after serving as the Director of the Clinical Education Programme at the University of…