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School of Law earns highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio
The ϳԹ 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 36 to...
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ϳԹ School of Law specialty programs ranked highly by U.S. News
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 ϳԹ School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration. The law school has achieved impressive specialty rank...
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Law School hosts national forum for medical students
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 face ...
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Dr. Yaron Covo to join Law-Medicine faculty
The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining ϳԹ 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 curre...
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Balancing Baseball and the Law
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 ϳԹ baseball team, Anderson has mastered the art of time management, carefully co...
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ϳԹ School of Law mourns the passing of Louise McKinney
The ϳԹ 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 Botswana...
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Charles Pavelec selected as Sixth Circuit Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student for 2025
Third-year law student Charles Pavelec was recently selected as the Sixth Circuit Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student for 2025. The award was presented on March 20 at a reception in Washington, D.C. “The Bankruptcy Code is really complicated and can sometimes seem like fake words made up by lawye...
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Bryan Adamson and Ayesha Bell Hardaway named Gray Institute Fellows
At its inaugural symposium in Montgomery, Alabama, the Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights appointed Ayesha Bell Hardaway, Director of the university’s Social Justice Institute and Professor of Law, and Bryan L. Adamson, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and the David L. and A...
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ϳԹ Law team takes second place in Southwest Regional National Patent Application Drafting Competition
A team of ϳԹ Law students recently took second place in the Southwest Regional National Patent Application Drafting Competition. Philip Kwon (2L), Amy Schnupp (2L) and Gregory Coffee (2L) found out about the competition through the patent preparation and prosecution course taught by adjunct profes...
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Burke Center to Host Second Annual Junior Environmental Law Scholar Workshop
This May, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law will be hosting its second annual Junior Environmental Law Scholar Workshop for law school pre-tenured faculty and fellows who are currently pursuing teaching careers in environmental law, energy law, climate law or natural resources law. T...