Representing the United States in the Supreme Court: A Conversation With U.S. Solicitor
The Sumner Canary Memorial lecture was established to honor the memory of the late Judge Sumner Canary, a pillar of the Cleveland legal community. Canary served on the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Eighth District and as U.S. Attorney for the Norther...
The 2024 Bruce J. Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights
In recent years, international criminal law has become one of the most important enforcement mechanisms for international human rights. And no matter the conflict, Andrew Cayley has been at the forefront of the effort to ensure accountability, having...
Talking Foreign Policy - Foreign Policy and the 2024 Presidential Election
Conventional wisdom says that foreign policy doesn’t matter in U.S. Presidential elections. Quote “It’s the economy, stupid,” was long thought to be political gospel. But this election might be different. According to polls, a divided Americ...
Talking Foreign Policy - 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions
May 28, 2024
Talking Foreign Policy
75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions
This August, the world will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on the Law of War. These seminal treaties were negotiated following the horrors of...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024: Closing Remarks
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States Law Institute Conference 2024 Panel 4: Climate Change and Human Rights
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024 Panel 3: Indigenous Reconciliation & Development
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024: Keynote
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024 Panel 2: Protecting Human Rights
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024 Panel 1: Approaches to Advancing Human Rights
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024: Welcome and Introduction
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 19, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Canada-United States law Institute Conference 2024: Thursday Night Keynote
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation
April 18, 2024
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The Univer...
Judicial Review of Public Health Laws: From Deference to Indifference with Wendy E. Parmet.
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents Judicial Review of Public Health Laws: From Deference to Indifference with Wendy E. Parmet.
For most of American history, courts granted significant deference to public health officials. This ...
This panel will explore the history and recent revival of religious liberty arguments supporting abortion rights. The panel will consider this topic from legal, historical, and theological perspectives, drawing on multiple faith traditions and their ...
Diaspora Bonds: Patriotism or Profit? with G. Mitu Gulat
In the world of sovereign debt instruments, the Holy Grail of financial instruments is the GDP indexed bond. That is, a borrowing instrument that operates counter cyclically. The sovereign would make smaller payments to lenders when times were tough ...
Once Lost, Painfully Present: Maya Angelou’s Blacks, Blues, Black! (1968)
Dr. Maya Angelou’s Blacks, Blues, Black! was a triumph of Civil Rights-era public affairs television, produced and aired amid nationwide uprisings in the immediate wake of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Blacks, Blues, Black! pr...
April 1, 2024
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
In February of 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an unprecedented decision, finding that frozen embryos should be treated as children under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. ...
The defining feature of modern democracy (in contrast to democracy in Ancient Greece, which it does not resemble) is that it establishes a government that responds to the needs and desires of the populace. It uses two mechanisms to achieve this goal,...
An in-person fire-side chat with Canadian Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne
One of Case Western Reserve University School of Law's most distinguished graduates, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, will participate in an informal fire-side chat with Dean Michael Scharf in the Moot Courtroom at the Law School. The fre...
March 1, 2024
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law - Part 5
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
s the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect indi...
March 1, 2024
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law - Part 4
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
s the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect indi...
March 1, 2024
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law - Part 3
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
s the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect indi...
March 1, 2024
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law - Part 2
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
s the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect indi...
March 1, 2024
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law - Part 1
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
s the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect indi...
2024 Law-Med Conference: Cognitive Decline and the Law
As the American population ages, a growing number of people will suffer cognitive decline. Cognitive decline may affect individuals’ ability to work, drive, obtain medical care, manage their finances and engage in other activities of daily living. ...
This event will educate attendees about the legal and historical significance of the Lincoln School Marchers of Hillsboro, Ohio. Gain valuable insights into the profound impact their protest had on education in the immediate aftermath of Brown v. Boa...
Reflections of Black Alumni on the Practice Of Law
Join our Black alumni for a Fireside Chat, who will discuss their careers as Cleveland attorneys, litigating and adjudicating some of the most impactful cases out of our courts. The reception begins at 5 p.m. and the Chat will begin at 5:30 p.m.
M...
The Next Big Abortion Rights Case with Jessie Hill and Jonathan Adler
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents:
Professors Jonathan Adler and Jessie Hill will discuss FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the next major abortion case to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. In this case, the Court ...
The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience with Robert Verchick
From fire to flood, from pounding heat waves to sea life stranded in a parking garage, Americans are seeing the face of climate breakdown. Cutting carbon pollution helps us avoid the very worst. But for risks we can’t avoid, we have to manage them....
Technology in the Securities Industry Promoting Innovation Without Compromising Investor Protection
This lecture will focus on the proliferation of fintech, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies as observed in the securities industry. Commissioner Seidt will discuss how digital assets, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic inv...
In the 1990’s, the United States obtained a major antitrust victory against Microsoft. The decision helped shape the Internet as we know it. Today, Google stands accused of using its market power to stifle competition in a case that will set the ru...
Join us as Rear Admiral Batson speaks about how the U.S. Coast Guard, through its 11 statutory missions and its status as a law enforcement agency, regulatory agency, member of the U.S. intelligence community, and one of the nation’s six armed serv...
Ethics & Professionalism for the Appellate Practitioner
Ethics & Professionalism for the Appellate Practitioner: A Discussion of the Cases and Capers Leading to Fines and Failures
November 17, 2023
CWRU School of Law
November 3, 2023
Judicial Conduct, Ethics and Reform - Part 2
The focus for the 2023 Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium will be judicial conduct, ethics and reform. Following a series of high-profile ethics inquiries and calls for judicial r...
November 3, 2023
Judicial Conduct, Ethics and Reform - Part 1
The focus for the 2023 Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium will be judicial conduct, ethics and reform. Following a series of high-profile ethics inquiries and calls for judicial r...
Law Review Symposium: Judicial Conduct, Ethics and Reform
The focus for the 2023 Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium will be judicial conduct, ethics and reform. Following a series of high-profile ethics inquiries and calls for judicial reform, this program hopes to provide a platform for ripe debate ...
‘Investment crowdfunding’ is a new and inclusive form of online venture capital market open to all investors, both retail and accredited. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share of stock, which would be an illegal public offering ...
Shoring Up the Constitution: Legacy of the African-American Lawyer, Quest for Equality
September 19, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
This year’s Battisti lecture will cover the lawyer pioneers who laid out the strategy for Brown v. Board, the obstacles they faced, and the ways racism has subsequently reared its ...
The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him
Sept. 18, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the “cruelest justice,” a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the ...
Law-Med Symposium 2023: Reproductive Rights and Justice after Roe - Part 2
April 14, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
This interdisciplinary symposium considers whether and how it might be possible to re-create reproductive autonomy from a "reproductive justice" perspective in the aftermath of the U.S. S...
Law-Med Symposium 2023: Reproductive Rights and Justice after Roe - Part 1
April 14, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
This interdisciplinary symposium considers whether and how it might be possible to re-create reproductive autonomy from a "reproductive justice" perspective in the aftermath of the U.S. S...
Law-Med Symposium 2023: Reproductive Rights and Justice after Roe - Part 4
April 14, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
This interdisciplinary symposium considers whether and how it might be possible to re-create reproductive autonomy from a "reproductive justice" perspective in the aftermath of the U.S....
Law-Med Symposium 2023: Reproductive Rights and Justice after Roe - Part 3
April 14, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
This interdisciplinary symposium considers whether and how it might be possible to re-create reproductive autonomy from a "reproductive justice" perspective in the aftermath of the U.S. S...
Bill 96: Complying with Quebec’s Strengthened French Language Protections
June 27, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
In May 2022, Quebec’s National Assembly passed Bill 96– An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec – which amends the Charter of the French Language from 19...
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges (Part 5)
April 20, 2023
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges (Part 1)
April 20, 2023
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges (Part 2)
April 20, 2023
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges (Part 3)
April 20, 2023
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges (Part 4)
April 20, 2023
Presented by: the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Here, My Dear’:
April 3, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
in 1977, singer Marvin Gaye—one of the most esteemed music artists of all time—did an audacious thing. Anna Gordy Gaye was divorcing Marvin and asking for one million dollars. Despite ...
The Digital Frontier: Navigating the Future of Law in the Age of AI, NFTs and Cybersecurity
March 31, 2023
The Digital Frontier: Navigating the Future of Law in the Age of AI, NFTs and Cybersecurity
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Canada United States Law Institute Promotional Video 2023
Canada United States Law Institute Promotional Video 2023
View event details: https://case.edu/law/our-school/events-lectures/stronger-together-leadership-new-security-economic-challenges
Repairing our Legacy: Native Nations, Co-Management and the Future of Federal Public Lands
The history and management of our nation's public lands have evolved largely at the expense and exclusion of the continent's Indigenous peoples. The removal, dispossession and relocation of Native Nations enabled the United States to acquire and main...
An undeniable giant in the legal world, US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas’s enduring legacy was his advocacy for the environment, though he was also known for his landmark decisions in privacy, criminal law, and civil rights. He was the l...
The Rollback of Public Health Emergency Powers and a New Model Law
March 8, 2023
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The COVID-19 pandemic caused governors to use executive branch public health powers to an unprecedented degree. A combination of public weariness with the pandemic, frustration with execut...
The Rollback of Public Health Emergency Powers and a New Model Law
The COVID-19 pandemic caused governors to use executive branch public health powers to an unprecedented degree. A combination of public weariness with the pandemic, frustration with executive actions designed to mitigate the community effects of COVI...
Trevor will speak on his career as a global leader in sports law, including his experiences on the United Kingdom’s National Anti-doping Panel, and with the English Football League and Premier League.
A Year that Changed the World: The War in Ukraine, and How it Shaped the International Legal Order
Event Description
Professor Hathaway will speak about the war in Ukraine and the future of the international legal order. What does the war teach us about the viability of the post-war legal order, which is grounded in the prohibition on the use of ...
Protecting Everyone's Constitutional Rights: Panel on Qualified Immunity
Qualified immunity is a doctrine invented by the Supreme Court in 1982 which protects all government officials from liability when they violate a person’s rights, even intentionally. This prevents people whose rights have been violated from seeing ...
What We Need to Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction
Case Law alum John F. Sopko (’77) was sworn in as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction on July 2, 2012. He was appointed by President Obama, served under President Trump, and continues to serve under President Biden. Inspector G...
Becoming a U.S. Citizen: Ethics and Justice in the Immigration System
On November 28th, 2022 from 6:00 to 7:30pm, the Global Ethical Leaders Society hosted a panel on the ethics and justice of the immigration system in the CWRU Law School Moot Courtroom. This event brought together professionals with vast experience in...
Retooling Trade in a Fractured Global Economy—A Practice-Oriented Update on Trade and Customs Law
With globalization stalled, concerns over forced labor in supply chains, the increasing electrification of the auto sector and the need to comply with...
From In-House Counsel to Inmate: Meet the Former GC of WellCare Health Plans
An inside account of one lawyer’s fall from billion dollar public company executive to criminal defendant in a major healthcare fraud prosecution, to federal prison inmate, and…back.
Limits on Biomedical Research: Whether, Why, and How
November 10, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Biomedical research aims to advance our understanding of health and illness and identify ways to prevent, diagnose, treat, and ameliorate diseases. Yet, arguably, not all biomedical re...
November 4, 2022
Corporate Law and Private Ordering - What are the Limits and What Framework Should Guide Decisions on Private Ordering?
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
November 4, 2022
Corporate Law and Private Ordering - What are the Limits and What Framework Should Guide Decisions on Private Ordering?
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
International Law and the New Cold War - Morning Keynote Speech
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
International Law and the New Cold War - A New Era of International Courts and Tribunals
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
International Law & the New Cold War - Power Shift Security Council Paralysis and General Assembly
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
International Law and the New Cold War - Role of International Law in the Russia Ukraine Conflict
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
International Law and the New Cold War - Closing Remarks
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
International Law and the New Cold War - Afternoon Keynote Speech
September 30, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international response represented a tectonic shift in geopolitics. This timely day-long symposium will examine how the Ukraine c...
November 4, 2022
Corporate Law and Private Ordering - What are the Limits and What Framework Should Guide Decisions on Private Ordering?
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Increasingly, corporations following the idea of a firm as a nexus of contracts, have relied on a contractual paradigm to craft contracts to engage in private ordering as a means of customizing corporate governance. Some of these contractual variatio...
Law Review Symposium: America’s Classrooms: Frontlines of the First Amendment
This symposium will explore current First Amendment issues in lower and higher education. Following a series of state-law mandates and Circuit Court and Supreme Court decisions affecting teachers and our American education system, this constitutional...
Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture: Judge Kevin C. Newsom, On Being Predictably Unpredictable
Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture: Judge Kevin C. Newsom, On Being Predictably Unpredictable
A judge should aspire to be perfectly predictable with respect to his or her methodology. That methodology, broadly described, is one of formalism – which man...
October 21, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Eighth District Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is offering an all-day CLE, featuring Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge...
October 21, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Eighth District Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is offering an all-day CLE, featuring Eighth District Court of Appeals Judg...
October 21, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Eighth District Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is offering an all-day CLE, featuring Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge...
Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Part 2
October 21, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Eighth District Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is offering an all-day CLE, featuring Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge...
The Eighth District Court of Appeals, in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is offering an all-day CLE, featuring Eighth District Court of Appeals Judges and staff attorneys, along with esteemed practitioners and lega...
A New Path to the Sunshine: Reconsidering Physicians’ Financial Conflicts
October 18, 2022
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents A New Path to the Sunshine: Reconsidering Physicians’ Financial Conflicts
For decades, legislators, scholars, and practitioners have expressed dismay over financial conflict...
Tax Law and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law -- A Tribute to Leon Gabinet
Professor Leon Gabinet (1927-2021) taught taxation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for over 50 years. He was one of the most popular members of the faculty, and he may also have been the most influential, as this program in his honor...
October 11, 2022
In a conversation with School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf, President Hiram Chodosh of Claremont McKenna College will reflect on 30 years of professional experience in institutional change in two domains: legal system reform and hi...
The Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals will hold an oral argument with a panel of judges which include two Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumnae.
Co-Dean Jessica Berg will briefly introduce the court, which includes CWRU alumnae J...
Sept. 20, 2022
Case Western reserve University School of Law
Since the Supreme Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, this judicial review has been highly deferential: courts must uphold agency interpretations of u...
A Conversation About Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
September 13, 2022
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents: A Conversation About Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Professors Jonathan Adler and Jessie Hill, both constituti...
Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free Zones?
Race, sex, religion, crime, liberty, patriotism, equality. The Supreme Court’s treatment of these incendiary topics has indelibly shaped public education and the constitutional rights of students around the country. Professor Justin Driver of Yale ...
The Bruce J. Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights
Featuring Hon. Fatou Bensouda, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Fatou Bensouda, Ambassador of The Gambia to the UK, served as Chief Prosecutor of the Intern...
July 1, 2022
The Little Engine That Could!
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Saving Elections from Politics: A Doctrine of Separation of Campaign and State
Oct. 17, 2011
Saving Elections from Politics: A Doctrine of Separation of Campaign and State
The Sumner Canary Lecture
presented by the Center for Business Law and Regulation
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Bradley A. S...
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 1)
April 8, 2022
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 1)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Flow and Ebb of “Waters of the United States:” Broader Lessons for Statutory
Interpretation
Nina Mendelson, Jo...
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 2)
April 8, 2022
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 2)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Has the Time Come to Distinguish WOTUS between Section 402 and Section 404–and
Could the Agencies Do It?
Robin Kund...
Department of Justice to review police response to Uvalde school shooting
Edward Dabkowski, research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed the police response in the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Te...
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 4)
April 8, 2022
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 4)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Dispatches from an Alternative Clean Water Act Reality
Dave Owen, Professor of Law, University of California- Hastings...
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 3)
April 8, 2022
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Panel 3)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
What is Clean Water Worth? And to Whom?
Bonnie Keeler, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Science, T...
Event Description
As Cleveland pursues its decades-long reinvention, a frequent—and often controversial—topic of attention is “regionalism” and the role it could play. But the term means different things to different people, rendering a reas...
The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
The Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law will sponsor “The Clean Water Act at 50,” a day-long interdisciplinary symposium that will explore the successes, failures and remaining challenges of the Clean Water Act. The event is Friday, Apr...
What can histories of modern Black media arts teach us about human expressive cultures and the importance of peaceful coexistence? How has art and media served as an instrument of response to the calamities of conflict and as means to articulate stra...
Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law is hosting an interdisciplinary conference titled “Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients,” which will explore ways in which physician...
Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients Day 1 of 2
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law is hosting an interdisciplinary conference titled “Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients,” which will explore ways in which physician...
This symposium will explore some of the ways in which racial hierarchies and subordination are present in American policing. Since the early 1970s, some law enforcement scholars, politicians and reformists have presupposed that increasing the number...
Judge Neomi Rao was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in March 2019. She graduated from Yale College in 1995 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. Following graduation, she served as a la...
Nazi Laws: From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Senior Instructor in Law Cathy Mansfield will discuss the Nazi Party’s rise to power in Germany in the years preceding the Holocaust, the legislative means by which the party and its leader...
The Academy and International Law: A Catalyst for Change and Innovation - Panel 4
Panel 4: The Academy and the Pursuit of Peace and Human Rights
Chair: Milena Sterio, Professor, Cleveland Marshall School of Law
Paul Williams, Professor American University Washington College of Law and President of PILPG
Alex Cuic, Adjunct Profess...
The Academy and International Law: A Catalyst for Change and Innovation - Panel 3
Panel 3: The Academy and the War on Terrorism: A 20 Year Retrospective
Co-Chairs, Avidan Cover, Associate Dean and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Shannon French, Inamori Pro...
The Academy and International Law: A Catalyst for Change and Innovation - Panel 2
Panel 2: 75th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Judgment: The Academy and War Crimes Prosecutions
Jennifer Trahan (Chair)
James Johnson, Chief Prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone and Director of the CWRU Henry King War Crimes Office...
The Academy and International Law: A Catalyst for Change and Innovation - Panel 1
Panel 1: The Academy and Grotian Moments
Chair: Stephen Petras, Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Carsten Stahn, Director of Leiden University’s Grotius Center
Michael Scharf, ...
Nov. 12, 2021
AEDPA and the PLRA After 25 Years
Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium
Panel 3: Limitations and Reform of AEDPA & the PLRA
Bryan Adamson, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Moderator
William Carter, University of P...
Nov. 12, 2021
AEDPA and the PLRA After 25 Years - Part 4
Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium
Panel 4: A Judge’s Perspective
Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Moderator
Judge Karen Nelson Moore, United States ...
Nov. 12, 2021
AEDPA and the PLRA After 25 Years - Part 2
Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium
Panel 2: Perspectives from Practitioners
Michael Benza, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Moderator
Duncan Brown, U.S. Attorneys Offi...
Nov. 12, 2021
AEDPA and the PLRA After 25 Years (Part 1)
Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium
Panel 1: The Burdens Placed on Pandemic Relief for Imprisoned Persons
Ayesha Bell Hardaway, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Moderato...
AEDPA and the PLRA After 25 Years Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passage of two significant federal statutes. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act sought to recalibrate the relationship between state and federal courts by limiting the scope of federa...
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in D.C.'s juvenile court, Henning confronts America's irrational, manufactured fears of Black youth and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins...
November 4, 2021
"Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds"
Speaker: Nora Jordan
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The presentation will provide an overview of the hedge fund and private equity fund industries, along with the regulations ...
Attorney Fred Gray (LAW, '54) returns to the Case Western Reserve University School of Law to share details of his career's pursuit for racial justice with area students. Attorney Gray will also sign copies of his book, Bus Ride to Justice
Cleve, Ohio Embryo Litigation: A Focus on Unique Legal Issues Structural Challenges, and Resolution
The lecture will focus on three unique aspects presented by the recent Cleveland litigation surrounding the loss of eggs and embryos due to an issue with the cryogenic tank:
FDA Approval of Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s Disease
In this Oliver C. Schroeder, Jr. Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Michael Carome, MD, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group (HRG), will describe the advocacy work of HRG over the past year opposing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appro...
The Mess with Texas: What's Going on With Texas's Abortion Law?"
Professor Jessie Hill, who researches, litigates, and consults extensively in the field of reproductive rights law, will explain the recent law banning most abortions in Texas, the litigation challenging that law, and what we can expect to happen nex...
The U.S. Supreme Court is famously tie-breaker free. When the Court is shorthanded and locks up 4–4, it issues a dry, one-sentence order: “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.”
Cleveland Mayoral Candidates’ Forum on Criminal Justice Reform and the Consent Decree
June 24, 2021
"Cleveland Mayoral Candidates’ Forum on Criminal Justice Reform and the Consent Decree"
Another Virtual Event from:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Lewis R. Katz, The Cleveland Community Police Commission (CPC)
John...
PHI - National Opioid Leadership Summit 2020 (part 4)
National Opioid Leadership Summit 2020
Public Health Institute
- Closing Keynote Address_ Regina LaBelle, JD
- Huntington, West Virginia, A City of Solutions
PHI - National Opioid Leadership Summit 2020 (part 3)
National Opioid Leadership Summit 2020
Public Health Institute
- Listening Up and Leaning In - The University Hospitals’ Maternal Opioid Medical Support (MOMS) Experience in Perinatal Addiction
- Best practices for Medication-Assisted Treatment ...
Adapting to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives
April 28, 2021
"Adapting to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speakers:
Matthew E. Kahn
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business, Director of the 21st Century Cities ...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 7
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 7""Indigenous Leadership on Climate Change and the Arctic"
Moderator: Wayne D. Garnons-Williams, Chair, International Intertribal Trade and Investment Orga...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 6
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 6""Tensions and Opportunity in Arctic Development and Stewardship"
Moderator: Prof. Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Director, ...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 5
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 5""United States Distinguished Lecture"
Opening remarks: The Honorable James Blanchard, Partner, DLA Piper LLP, former Governor of Michigan, United State...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 4
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 4""Lunchtime Awards Ceremony"
Henry T. King Award Presentation – presented by Lawrence Herman, Canada-United States Law Institute Executive Committee, Pri...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 3
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 3""Canadian Distinguished Lecture"
Opening remarks: The Honourable James Peterson, Counsel, Fasken LLP, former Canadian Minister of International Trade, Me...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 2
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 2""The Arctic as Emerging Geopolitical Flashpoint"
Moderator: Prof. Robert Huebert, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Calgary Department of Political ...
Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 1
April 23, 2021
"Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound Disruption, Uncertain Impact - Part 1""Welcome and Introduction"
Dean Erika Chamberlain, President, Canada-United States Law Institute, Dean of Law, University of Western Ontario Faculty of La...
Great Lakes Restoration: An Era of Hope and Rebirth for Our Critical Resource
April 8, 2021
Great Lakes Restoration: An Era of Hope and Rebirth for Our Critical Resource
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Marcy Kaptur, United States Representative
Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights
March 1, 2021
"Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speakers:
Karen Bradshaw, Professor of Law, Arizona State University
Holly Doremus, Professor of Environmental Regulatio...
Joshua R.Giddings: The Forgotten Abolitionist of the Western Reserve
February 24, 2021
"Joshua R.Giddings: The Forgotten Abolitionist of the Western Reserve"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Robert Storey (LAW '64), retired Ohio attorney
Securities Laws and Small Business Capital Formation: What Has the SEC Done for You Lately
February 22, 2021
"Securities Laws and Small Business Capital Formation: What Has the SEC Done for You Lately"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Health Equity During OVID-19 Pandemic: Legal Implications and the Need for Policy to Effect Change
November 18, 2020
"Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Legal Implications and the Need for Policy to Effect Change"
Speaker:
Tammy Boyd
Chief Policy Officer & Counsel for Black Women’s Health Imperative
Examining LGBTQ Case History in the Supreme Court
Speaker: Maya Simek, Director, Human Trafficking Project, Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic
Center, School of Law
Case Western Reserve University
Lecture Summary:
This lecture will examine a selection o...
Presidential Records and a Pandemic at the Supreme Court
Presidential Records and a Pandemic at the Supreme Court
Speaker: Jonathan H. Adler, the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law
and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case
Western Reserve University Schoo...
Part I The Faithless Electors Cases - Part II Reflections on Justice Ginsburg
Part I "The Faithless Electors Cases"
Part II "Reflections on Justice Ginsburg”
Speaker: Jonathan L. Entin, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, School of
Law Adjunct Professor of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
Case West...
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California: ‘The DACA Case
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California: ‘The
DACA (or Dreamers) Case
Speaker: Avidan Y. Cover, Professor of Law, School of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Law, Director, Institute for Global ...
The Hon. Robert J. Portman - Keynote Address to the Fifth Trade Law Update
November 13, 2020
The Hon. Robert J. Portman, U.S. Senator and former USTR
Senator Portman's Keynote Address to the Fifth Trade Law Update.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
November 6, 2020
"Equity Holdings in the Three Index Funds: Anti-Competitive Effects, Fiduciary Duties and Environmental, Social and Governance Issues"
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
October 21, 2020
"The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Richard J. Lazarus
Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University
State-Provincial Approach to Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes Basin: Possibilities & Pitfalls
October 15, 2020
"A State-Provincial Approach to Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes Basin: Possibilities & Pitfalls"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Planting the Seeds of Violence: How U.S. Involvement in El Salvador Led to Today’s Migration Crisis
October 12, 2020
"Planting the Seeds of Violence: How U.S. Involvement in El Salvador Led to Today’s Migration Crisis"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do
October 1, 2020
"Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speakers:
Maxwell J. Mehlman, Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law
Dr. Michael Lederman, P...
2020 Elections: Challenges to Access, Opportunities for Engagement
September 30, 2020
"2020 Elections: Challenges to Access, Opportunities for Engagement"
Speakers:
Bryan Adamson
Jen Miller
Ifeolu Claytor
Kayla Griffin
The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Health Care
September 29, 2020
"The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Health Care"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Panelists:
Jessie Hill
Sara Rosenbaum
J.B. Silvers
Joe White
Sharona Hoffman
Maxwell J. Mehlman
Real Estate Private Equity Joint Ventures – Key Terms
September 24, 2020
"Real Estate Private Equity Joint Ventures – Key Terms"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Dominic DiPuccio,
Chair of Taft's Mergers and Acquisitions group
September 22, 2020
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Legal Pioneer's Legacy"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Panelists include:
Jonathan L. Entin, David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and former law clerk for Justice Ginsburg
Jonathan H...
September 21, 2020
"Reproductive Rights and the Roberts Court"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Jessie Hill, JD
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
The Age of Robert H Jackson London, Nuremberg, Today
August 8, 2020
"The Age of Robert H Jackson London, Nuremberg, Today"
Sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center and the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
----Webinar Schedule----
Welcome: Kristan McMahon, President of the Robert H. Jacks...
Should the United States back Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelagos?
August 6, 2020
"Should the United States back Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelagos?"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Speaker:
Satyajit Boolell, Director of Public Prosecutions for Mauritius
Communications Decency Act Section 230 and the Future of Online Speech
June 30, 2020
Communications Decency Act Section 230 and the Future of Online Speech
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Panelists:
Kendra Albert, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic
Blake Reid, Clinical Professor, ...
Corruption: A Threat to the Rule of Law and Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan
June 23, 2020
"Corruption: A Threat to the Rule of Law and Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
John Sopko
Michael Scharf
April 21, 2020
"Marijuana Federalism - Uncle Sam and Mary Jane"
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Panelists:
Jonathan Adler
Cassandra Burke Robertson
Julie Hill