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Reception to honor School of Law Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf
Members of the campus community are invited to join ϳԹ President Eric W. Kaler and Provost Joy K. Ward for a reception celebrating School of Law Co‑Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf Tuesday, May 28, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Thwing Center ballroom. Berg and Scharf b...
Graduating Student Spotlight: Junwoo Shim
After he receives his diploma this month, Junwoo Shim hopes to embark on a fulfilling journey in the legal field where he can leverage his education to make a tangible and positive impact on the legal landscape. Drawn to ϳԹ for its outstanding law program and supportive faculty a...
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Capstone Spotlight: Jessica Chapman
Jessica Chapman chose to complete her capstone requirement at the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Policy Section in Washington, D.C. Extremely active in the international law community at ϳԹ, Chapman moved to the nation’s capital for a semester to try out a different...
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ϳԹ School of Law moot court and mock trial teams complete a historic season
Talk about “March Madness”! “When it comes to mock trial and moot court, ϳԹ School of Law is the equivalent of an elite NCAA basketball program,” said Co-Dean Michael Scharf. Based on the overall success of its nine mock trial and moot court teams, Case Western Reser...
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Law’s Juscelino Colares reappointed to United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement Binational Trade Dispute Panelists
Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law at the School of Law, was reappointed to serve on the U.S. Roster of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) Binational Trade Dispute Panelists through 2025. The USMCA Secretariat is administering 13 North American Fr...
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Center for Business Law hosts Mitu Gulati
On April 10, the Center for Business Law hosted a public lecture featuring Mitu Gulati from the University of Virginia School of Law. During the talk, he presented a paper co-authored with Irving Arturo De Lira Salvatierra and Michael Bradley from Duke University, Fuqua Business School on the topic ...
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy Prepares 1Ls for Oral Argument
On April 5, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy offered her advice on best oral argument practices to first-year law students—just in time to help them prepare for their own simulated oral arguments in LLEAP, ϳԹ School of Law’s required, year-long legal research, writing and experie...
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School of Law ranked among the best law schools for its specialty areas
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools. Based on its collective specialty rankings, ϳԹ School of Law ranked 42nd best in the nation. That’s up ten places from its #52 specialty ranking last year. Nin...
Health Matrix Holds Annual Banquet to Celebrate Journal’s Achievements
On April 21, 2024, students and faculty gathered at a local restaurant to celebrate the publication of volume 34 of Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine and all of the student editors’ hard work. Health Matrix is currently ranked #3 among 57 journals worldwide that are included in the category of ...
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Student Spotlight: Tiffany Johnston
Towards the end of her 2L year, Tiffany Johnston received some unexpected but welcome news—she was pregnant. “I’ve been told since I was 16 that it would be nearly impossible for me to have a child naturally,” Johnston said. “We originally thought it might have been cancer, but she turned out to b...