
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.

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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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Meet a researcher working on untangling housing titles

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Exemplary student work recognized with LLEAP writing awards
Recent News

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April 10, 2023
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...
April 07, 2023
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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April 07, 2023
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 ...
April 03, 2023
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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March 31, 2023
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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March 31, 2023
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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March 31, 2023
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...
March 29, 2023
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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March 28, 2023
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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March 27, 2023
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 ...