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US Government Endorses Dean Scharf’s Proposal for an Internationalized Ukraine War Crimes Court to Prosecute Russian Aggression
Last summer, ϳԹ School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf and his colleagues at the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) drafted model legislation to establish the Ukraine High Court for War Crimes. The project was the result of weeks of research and meetings wit...
School of Law to Host Distinguished Classroom Guest Speakers
Imagine if the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco guest taught one of your law school classes. Or a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Or the host of a famous law podcast? “With our faculty’s connections, at ϳԹ School of Law, we regularly have promin...
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Law Gala
Phi Alpha Delta, ϳԹ’s pre-law fraternity, will host the fifth annual Law Gala Saturday, April 15, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom. Judge Dan Aaron Polster will be the keynote speaker. There also will be dinner and raffle baskets. Attendees will have ...
Ethan Isaacson’s LegalEase Citations Recognized by ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley
As a 1L at ϳԹ, Ethan Isaacson (LAW, 2021) identified a gap in the tools available to legal professionals. While working on the Journal of International Law and participating in writing courses, Isaacson and some of his classmates struggled with Bluebook citations. “We ...
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ϳԹ BLSA Mock Trial Team Places Second at National Constance Baker Motley Competition
ϳԹ’s BLSA Mock Trial team returned from the National Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition (CBMMTC) in Washington, D.C. as the second-ranked BLSA mock trial team in the nation. This latest victory comes less than one month after ϳԹ won first place at the Midwest Regional CBMMTC in Chicag...
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Faculty members, students visit Washington, D.C.
An Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Brian Gran, professor of sociology and law, are co-instructing a course titled “Socio-Technology of Cyber Security” this semester. They received a grant from New America’s Public Interest Technology-Univ...
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School of Law's Erik Jensen shares 'amicus' brief with the United States Supreme Court
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, shared a “friend of the court” brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, opining on Congress's taxing authority. He argued that the framers intended the Apportionment Clause to be a hard limit on the central government’s taxing powers; the drafte...
ϳԹ Law Partners with Alumni-Founded Sports Data Labs to Create First-Ever Lab Focused on the Legalities of Collection, Usage and Ownership of Athlete Data
ϳԹ School of Law is proud to announce the formation of the first-ever Athlete Data Lab in partnership with alumni-founded Sports Data Labs, Inc. (SD Labs). The newly-created lab will aim to bring clarity to the global complexities associated with the collection, processi...
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“Learn from the Law Students”
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to hear from alumni and current law students during a remote session titled “Learn from the Law Students” Friday, March 31, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Attendees are invited to ask questions about the law school application process, ...
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Ikenna Ezealah Visits Geneva for the United Nations Immersion Program for Multilateral Diplomacy
Before Ikenna Ezealah started law school at ϳԹ in the summer of 2022, his professional goal was to be an international nation-building diplomat who works toward the progress and development of the African continent. As a first step, he resolved to work at the preeminent ...