
School of Law
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Law school is at the forefront with program on artificial intelligence
ϳԹ's School of Law is in the "legal AI" Vanguard.

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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News

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May 31, 2013
Lynn T. Singer, deputy provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been named chairwoman of the Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section of the National Institute of Health's Center for Scientific Review. Her term begins July 1, 2013, and ends June 30, 2015.
The C...
May 30, 2013
Research by Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, was cited in Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ dissenting opinion in a case that produced a significant administrative law ruling.
In City of Arlington v. FCC, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that courts should defer to ...
May 24, 2013
Max Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, published, “The Pros and Cons of Practice Guidelines,” in Trial, this May, and “Enhanced Warfighters: A Policy Framework” in Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century.
He also presented “Medical Practice Guidelines and the Legal Standard of...

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May 21, 2013
ϳԹ School of Medicine is leading a Northeast Ohio team that is part of a $10 million March of Dimes project to help prevent preterm births. Greater Cleveland’s participants include University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital a...
May 17, 2013
Brian Gran, associate professor of sociology with a secondary appointment in law, recently appeared on WEWS NewsChannel 5 four times, giving his perspective on children’s rights in the Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight case.
In addition, he attended and participated in a discussion on ...

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May 16, 2013
ϳԹ employees are encouraged to join the ϳԹ Walking Club, a group designed to help link people together from the area to increase fitness and support community causes.
The ϳԹ Walking Club is open to everyone—affiliation with the university or 121 Fitness is not requi...
May 11, 2013
Sienna White, a first-year law student at ϳԹ, wants to better understand the failures that led to the Holocaust so she can work in her own career to prevent any repetition of such a horror.
White, 22, is one of 14 students from law schools nationally that the New York-b...

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May 10, 2013
'Unfilmable' novels? No such thing, says Hollywood
CNN: Louis Giannetti, professor emeritus of English and film, talks about the problem of trying to successfully covert books to film. “The language in Gatsby is almost like poetry,” he said. “How do you translate that into cinematic terms?”...

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May 06, 2013
A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at ϳԹ School of Medicine has developed a novel method to disrupt this growth-signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a ...

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May 02, 2013
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) Seminar Series continues Wednesday, May 8, with a talk by Heidi Gullett, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Her talk, “Bridges Out of Poverty: A novel framework to promote social change and ...