ϳԹ

Skip to main content
Signage outside of the Law School building

School of Law

At ϳԹ , our students, faculty, staff and alumni influence everything from health law to international law to public policy—all while learning, teaching and practicing legal education rooted in real-world impact. Discover our latest news in legal scholarship, advocacy, experiential learning, community impact and so much more.

Recent News

Law%20commencement%202021%20-%20speaker.jpg
Hero Type
Image
Deputy Provost Lynn Singer named chairwoman of NIH Center for Scientific Review study section
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...
Jonathan Adler’s research cited in Supreme Court dissenting opinion
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 ...
Law’s Max Mehlman publishes two papers and presents a third
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...
Court%20of%20Appeals%20and%20Ohio%20Supreme%20Court%20logos.png
Hero Type
Image
Ohio-led team takes on premature birth through March of Dimes
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...
Sociology’s Brian Gran discusses Cleveland kidnapping cases, attends UN human rights event
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 ...
Sankofa%20event%20%28825%20x%20528%29.jpg
Hero Type
Image
Join the ϳԹ Walking Club
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...
Law student earns fellowship to study how professional ethics can help avert genocide
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...
Dunmore%20group%20photo.png
Hero Type
Image
Emeritus Professor Louis Giannetti talks converting books to film
'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?”...
Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights%20%28PHR%29%20logo_0.jpg
Hero Type
Image
School of Medicine researchers discover new target for personalized cancer therapy
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 ...
clare-shin-feat-726x1024.jpg
Hero Type
Image
Hear about social change, improving health outcomes during May 8 seminar
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 ...