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{{Short description|Private law school in Cleveland, Ohio, US}}
'''Case Western Reserve University School of Law''' is the ] at ] in ]. It is currently ranked #51 in the 2007 '']'' ]. In addition to the J.D., Case Western offers an LL.M. in U.S. Law to foreign lawyers.
{{Infobox Law School
| name = Case Western Reserve University School of Law
| image = CWRU Outside.JPG
| established = 1892
| type = ]
| head = Paul Rose
| city = ]
| state = ]
| country = U.S.
| students = 422
| bar pass rate = 86.73% (2022 first time takers)<ref>{{cite web |title=Case Western Reserve University - 2023 First Time Bar Passage|url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/BarPassageOutcomes.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=] |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>
| ranking=89th (tie) (2024)<ref>{{cite web |title=Case Western Reserve University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/case-western-reserve-university-03123 |website=U.S. News & World Report – Best Law Schools |access-date=April 8, 2024}}</ref>
| faculty = 68 full-time
| logo =
| homepage= {{url|www.law.case.edu}}
}}
'''Case Western Reserve University School of Law''' is one of eight schools at ] in ]. It was one of the first schools accredited by the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved/|title=By Year Approved|website=www.americanbar.org}}</ref> It is a member of the ] (AALS).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aals.org/member-schools/|title=Member Schools|website=Association of American Law Schools}}</ref> It was initially named for ], a justice of the ], whose widow donated $50,000 to found the school in 1892.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title=Backus, Franklin Thomas | encyclopedia=] | access-date=21 June 2015 | url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=BFT | date=11 Jul 1997}}</ref>


According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners, ranking 114th out of 200 ABA-approved law schools.<ref name="ABA Employment Reports"/><ref name=Matt/>
=== Notable Faculty ===
*Michael Scharf - An expert on international law, Scharf was nominated for a ] in ]. Scharf assisted in the training of the judges in ]'s ] trial. Mr. Scharf is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of international criminal law. Mr. Scharf and the Public International Law and Policy Group - a non-governmental organization he co-founded - were nominat6ed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the Chief Prosecutor of an International Criminal Tribunal for the work they have done to help in the prosecution of major war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and Saddam Hussein. During the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, he served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Counsel to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is the author of over fifty scholarly articles and eight books, including Balkan Justice, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding book in International Law in 1999, Peace with Justice, which won the International Association of Penal Law's Book of the Year Award for 2003, and casebooks on The Law of International Organizations and International Criminal Law. He has testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; his Op Eds have been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune; and he has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" and "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," as well as CNN, the BBC, Court TV, and National Public Radio. He teaches in the areas of public international law, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, and inter-national humanitarian law.
*Henry King - A former ] prosecutor. Mr. King has written a book on Albert Speer, one of the Nuremberg defendants, entitled The Two Worlds of Albert Speer.
*Juliet Kostritsky - An expert on promissory estoppel, Kostritsky was the former chair of the contracts division of the AALS.
*Lewis Katz - An expert on criminal law and author of significant portions of the Ohio criminal code, Katz was a candidate for the ] 14th District seat in Ohio. Mr. Katz was called an "expert in criminal law" by the New York Times. His books and articles have been cited in more than 400 cases and legal articles by numerous courts including the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of The Justice Imperative (1980), Know Your Rights (1993), and Ohio Arrest Search and Seizure (2005), and co-author of six other books: Justice Is the Crime (1972), New York Suppression Manual (1992), Ohio Felony Sentencing Law (2004), Ohio Criminal Justice (2005), Questions & Answers: Criminal Procedures (2003), and Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Criminal Law (2003).
*Paul Gianelli - One of the country's foremost evidence experts, he has co-authored several leading evidence and scientific evidence texts. Recognized by the New York Times as an "expert on scientific evidence," Mr. Giannelli has lectured throughout the country and his work has been cited in hundreds of court opinions and legal articles, including decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is coauthor of nine books: Scientific Evidence (3d edition, 1999), Evidence: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2002), Courtroom Criminal Evidence (4th ed., 2006), Ohio Criminal Justice (2004), Understanding Evidence (2d ed. 2006), Ohio Juvenile Law (2004), Ohio Rules of Evidence Handbook (2005), Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Criminal Law (2d ed. 2003), and Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Evidence (2d ed. 2001). Mr. Giannelli serves as co-chair, ABA Ad Hoc Innocence Committee to Ensure the Integrity of the Criminal Process and as Reporter, ABA Criminal Justice Standards Task Force on DNA Evidence.
*Richard Gordon - Former Deputy Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law; International Monetary Fund (Senior Financial Sector Expert 2002-3; Senior Counsel 1997-2002; Counsel 1995-7; Consulting Counsel 1994-5); appointed to the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance; principal author of the report on the role of the IMF and World Bank in countering terrorism finance and money laundering; principal author of the book Tax Law Design and Drafting (Aspen 2000) and the author of numerous reports, articles, and book chapters on law and development, comparative taxation, corporate governance, sovereign debt restructuring, and money laundering.
*Craig A. Nard - a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy. He is also an author of the patent law casebook, Principles of Patent Law (Foundation Press 2004) (with Chisum, Schwartz, Newman, & Kieff), Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, (Kluwer Law International 1999) (with Halpern and Port) and The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishing) (forthcoming 2005) (with Madison and Barnes).
*Jonathan Adler - He is the author or editor of three books, over ten scholarly articles, and articles published in well-respected publications, ranging from Environmental Law and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is also a contributing editor to National Review Online. In 2004, Mr. Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by The Federalist Society to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students.
*Arthur D. Austin, II - A prolific author, he has published frequently-cited articles in leading law reviews and three books: Antitrust: Law, Economics, Policy (1976), Complex Litigation Confronts the Jury System (1984), and The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (1998).
*Amos N. Guiora - Author of the first of its kind casebook in the field, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2008), Professor Guiora writes and lectures extensively on counterterrorism issues. As an expert commentator, he is frequently interviewed and quoted and has been published in the national and international media, including CNN, The Washington Post, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, C-Span, The Christian Science Monitor, Fox TV, the New York Daily News, KQV Newsradio Pittsburgh, and Minnesota Public Radio. He held a number of senior command positions in the IDF and was involved in counterterrorism legal and policy issues, such as the capture of the Palestinian gun-smuggling ship the Karine A. In addition, he was deeply involved in the peace process with the Palestinians as he negotiated the Safe Passage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the implementation of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement, and of the Interim Agreement.
*Raymond Ku - A prolific scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Fordham, Minnesota, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others. Professor Ku is also the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law.
*Gerald Korngold - In addition to many articles, he is the author of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes (2004), coauthor of two casebooks, Real Estate Transactions (2004) and Cases and Text on Property (2004), and co-editor of Property Stories (2004). He served as an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Property-Servitudes.
*Kevin C. McMunigal - a Contributing Editor of the ABA's Criminal Justice magazine and worked with Professor Kate Bloch of Hastings Law School on a criminal law casebook (Aspen Publishing).
*Jacqueline D. Lipton - She has authored numerous law review articles in these areas, including recent publications in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Wake Forest Law Review. She is the co-author of the second edition of Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen, forthcoming, 2006) with Professor Raymond Shih Ray Ku. She also authored Security Over Intangible Property (Thomson, 2000), the first text devoted solely to the issue of securitization of intangible property, including intellectual property.
*Leon Gabinet - coauthor of Tax Aspects of Marital Dissolution (1986, 2d edition 1998). He is a member of the American Law Institute.
*Ronald J. Coffey - 1971 as director of commerce for the state of Ohio. His securities course materials (as well as his published writings) are frequently cited by courts and by scholars. He has appeared at countless institutes, symposia, and conferences.
*Gary J. Simson - Cornell Law School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2000-04. He is also the author of a leading conflict of laws casebook now in its fourth edition and various articles in the field.
*Martha Woodmansee - She has also taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern Universities. Since 1990 she has been Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary work in theory. Ms. Woodmansee has published widely at the intersection of aesthetics, economics, and copyright law. She has articles in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and the Houston Law Review. Her books include The Author, Art, and the Market (1994), a collection co-edited with Peter Jaszi, The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (1994), and the collection, The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999). A 2002 Guggenheim fellow and 2004 Fulbright fellow, her present research concerns book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.
*Morris G. Shanker - has a considerable reputation in the fields of commercial law, creditor-debtor law, and bankruptcy. His extensive writings are frequently cited, and he has held visiting appointments at Michigan, California (Berkeley), Wayne State, and the University of London. Mr. Shanker served on the original Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the U.S. Judicial Conference and has acted as a special master in the federal courts. He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute.
*Ted Steinberg - He has written numerous articles and four books: Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (2002); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster (2000); Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature (1995); and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (1991), the last a co-winner of the Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, he has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
*Calvin W. Sharpe - His most recent publications include Optmality Theory and Its Implications for Arbitrator, NAA Proceedings (forthcoming 2004), The Story of Emporium Capwell: Civil rights, Collective Action, and the Constraints of Union Power (with Marion Crain and Reuel Schiller) in Labor Law Stories (Laura Cooper and Catherine Fisk eds.)(Foundation Press 2005), Reliability Under Rule 702: A Specialized Application of 403, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 289 (2003),"Integrity Review of Statutory Arbitration Awards", 54 Hastings L. J. 311 (2003), and "Evidence Teaching Wisdom: A Survey", 26 U. Seattle L. Rev. 2 569 (2003), as well as a book, Understanding Labor Law, (2d ed. with Douglas Ray and Robert Strassfeld), (Lexis 2005). He has chaired the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools and held visiting appointments at George Washington, DePaul, Wake Forest, and Minnesota. He was member of the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Arbitrators and currently serves on the United States Executive Board of the International Society of Labor and Social Security Law and the Board of Directors, JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation.
*Dale A. Nance - An internationally recognized evidence scholar, Mr. Nance also teaches and writes about jurisprudence and legal theory. Before joining the faculty in 2002, Mr. Nance taught law at Chicago-Kent, where he was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar and Associate Dean for Program Development. He has also taught at Northern Illinois University, and University of Colorado, the University of San Diego, and Cornell University. He is a reviser for the next edition of Wigmore on Evidence and is the author of numerous law review articles and the textbook, Law and Justice: Cases and Readings on the American Legal System (1994). He is a member of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
*Andrew P. Morriss - Also a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law, a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a regular visiting professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles.
*Maxwell J. Mehlman - a Rhodes Scholar. He is author of the book Wondergenes' Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society (2003), co-editor of Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (2002) and the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2000), coauthor of a book, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (1998), and author of many articles on such topics as the fiduciary nature of the patient-physician relationship, disability law, access to health services under federal entitlement programs, the Human Genome Project, and cognitive enhancement.
*Kenneth F. Ledford - He has published numerous articles and a book, From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878- 1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Last year he was the John W. Kluge Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His most recent article is "Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876-1914," 37 Central European History 203 (2004). His current research focuses on the Prussian judiciary from 1794 to 1914. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and held fellow-ships from the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is active in the American Society for Legal History and serves on the Editorial Board of the Law and History Review. He is now Editor of Central European History.
*Brian K. Gran - Professor Gran was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University. His interests include comparative social policy, political sociology, sociology of law, and methodology. Professor Gran's most recent work appears in the Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Aging Studies, and International Journal of Health Services. His current research focuses on comparative social policy as it is formed in the intersection of the public and private sectors.
*George W. Dent, Jr. - He has published many articles on corporate and securities law, including "Corporate Governance: Still Broke, No Fix in Sight," Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming), "Lawyers and Trust in Business Alliances," Business Lawyer (2002), "The Role of Convertible Securities in Corporate Finance" in the Journal of Corporation Law (1996) and "Gap Fillers and Fiduciary Duties in Strategic Alliances," The Business Lawyer (2001). He also writes on law and religion, as in "Religion, Morality and Democracy, 39 University of Richmond Law Review (2005), "Secularism and the Supreme Court," Brigham Young University Law Review (1999,) and "The Defense of Traditional Marriage," Virginia Journal of Law and Politics (1999). Mr. Dent serves as a director of the National Association of Scholars and as president of the Ohio Association of Scholars. He serves as an officer of Cleveland Chapter of the Federalist Society.
*Sharona Hoffman - She has published articles on employment discrimination, health insurance, disability law, biomedical research, and the concept of race and its use in law and medicine. She is a frequent speaker on health law and civil rights issues and has been widely quoted in the media, including the L.A. Times, USA Today, and the New York Times.
*James W. McElhaney - He is nationally known as the author of the casebook Effective Litigation (1974) and as a columnist in the ABA Journal and in Litigation magazine, of which he has been editor in chief. McElhaney's Trial Notebook, a collection of his Litigation articles, has gone into a third edition. A collection of his ABA Journal articles - McElhaney's Litigation - was published in 1995. A faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Mr. McElhaney is a well-traveled lecturer, constantly in demand.
*Sidney I. Picker, Jr. - Mr. Picker, whose primary areas are international law and international trade, was the founding director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute and of The School's International Law Center. Before joining the faculty in 1969, he practiced law in Los Angeles and held government positions: he was involved in the "Kennedy round" of GATT Trade Negotiations and served as counsel to the Export-Import Bank. More recently he arbitrated the first government-to-government dispute under NAFTA. He is also involved in Russian rule of law activities, including serving as a consultant to the World Bank on Russian legal education.


==Academics==
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The student-faculty ratio is 6.8:1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/case-western-reserve-university-03123|title=USNWR Ranking}}</ref> In August 2013, by a near-unanimous vote, the faculty adopted a new curriculum to reflect changes in the legal profession. The model is designed to blend practice, theory, and professionalism in all three years of law school. Students begin working with clients in the first year of law school. Writing and skills-oriented courses track course content to the school's substantive-law courses to blend theory and practice. Students also learn transactional drafting, financial literacy, and statutory and regulatory analysis during their first year.
=== Notable Graduates ===
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*] - District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
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During the second year of law school, students specialize and continue to build on the skills they learned during their first year. The law school's concentrations include health care law, international law, national security law, and law, technology, and the arts.

Beginning in 2016, a capstone semester became a hallmark of the third year. All students practice law full-time by working on cases through the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at the law school or through an externship. Students may do externships in the U.S. or abroad. A select number of students may competitively apply to spend their third year in Europe, completing a foreign LLM degree in addition to their Case JD, at no additional cost.

Students learn leadership through courses developed by faculty at Case Western's Weatherhead School of Management, and students graduate with e-portfolios of their work to share with employers.

===Admissions===
For the class entering in 2022, the school accepted 39.18% of applicants and, from those accepted, 29.08% enrolled, with enrolled students having an average 160 ] score and 3.66 average undergraduate ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Case Western Reserve University - 2022 Standard 509 Information Report |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=] |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>

==Rankings==
The school was ranked 78th by the '']'' on its 2023—2024 law school rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/case-western-reserve-university-03123}}</ref> ''U.S. News & World Report'' has ranked its Health Care Law program ranked tied for 9th in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/case-western-reserve-university-03123|title=USNWR Law School Ranking}}</ref> In addition to its JD curriculum, the law school offers LLM and SJD degrees to foreign-trained lawyers. It also offers an Executive Master of Arts in Financial Integrity and a Masters in Patent Practice.

==Journals==
]
* ''Case Western Reserve Law Review''
* ''Canada-US Law Journal''
* ''Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine''
* ''Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet''
* '']''

==Academic centers==
* Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
* Center for Law, Technology and the Arts
* The Law-Medicine Center
* Center for Business Law and Regulation
* Canada-US Law Institute
* Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
]

==Post-graduation employment==
According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.<ref name="ABA Employment Reports">{{cite web |title=Case Western Reserve University Employment Summaries for 2018 & 2021 Graduates |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/EmploymentOutcomes.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=] |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> The school ranked 114th out of 200 ABA-approved law schools in terms of the percentage of 2018 graduates with non-school-funded, full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs nine months after graduation.<ref name=Matt>{{cite web|last1=Leichter|first1=Matt|title=Class of 2018 Employment Report: The Rankings|url=https://lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/class-of-2018-employment-report-the-rankings/|website=The Law School Tuition Bubble|date=6 May 2019 |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>

For 2021, Case Western Reserve's ] under-employment score was 15%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2021 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.<ref name="LST Profile">{{cite web|title=Case Western Reserve University Profile |url=https://www.lawschooltransparency.com/schools/casewestern|website=]|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> 93.4% of the Class of 2021 was employed in some capacity including non-professional, part-time, and short-term employment, while 0.7% were pursuing graduate degrees, and 5.9% were unemployed nine months after graduation.<ref name="ABA Employment Reports" /> The most graduates, 23.5%, were employed in public service.<ref name="LST Cost"/>

] was the primary employment destination for 2021 Case Western Reserve graduates, with 46.1% of employed graduates working in the state.<ref name="ABA Employment Reports" /> The next two most popular locations for Case Western graduates to accept employment were nine graduates in Washington, D.C., and nine in New York. In addition, two graduates from the class of 2021 accepted positions abroad.<ref name="ABA Employment Reports" />

==Costs==
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Case Western Reserve for the 2022-2023 academic year was $85,792.<ref name="Fin Aid">{{cite web|title=Financial Aid & Scholarships|url=https://case.edu/law/admissions/jd-admissions/tuition-aid-scholarships |website=Case Western Reserve University School of Law|date=26 April 2019 |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> Case Western Reserve's tuition and fees on average increase 3.03% annually.<ref name="LST Cost">{{cite web|url=https://www.lawschooltransparency.com/schools/casewestern|title=Case Western Reserve University Quick Stats|website=Law School Transparency|access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $320,718, while 47.8% of students received an annual discount greater than or equal to $40,000.<ref name="LST Cost" />

==Notable faculty==
* ] – contributing editor to '']'' and a regular contributor to '']''
* ] – ] professor and ]; professor at the law school 1970–2001
* ] – a U.S. ] at the ] in 1946–47. From the mid-1980s until his death in 2009 he was a professor at the law school. ] described King as "the ] of modern ]".{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
* ] – former ] turned ] and ].
* ] – A recognized international expert on ] and author of ''Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein''; co-dean of the law school; director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center

==Notable alumni==
{{Main|Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumni}}
Among Case Western alumni are prominent ], particularly from the ]. Examples of such include former ] ], former ] ], ], and ], and former ] ] and ].

Members of the bench who are Case Western alumni include ] of the ], and ] of the ]. Both were appointed to their current positions by ] ]. Associate Justice ] of the ] (1916–1922) was educated when the school was known as Western Reserve College. Associate Justice ] of the ] is also an alumnus.

Other Case alumni are involved in the fields of government, business, academia, and the judiciary.

==In popular culture==
* In 2010, the show '']'' on ] features a main character, Addy Fisher, who graduated from CWRU School of Law.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

==References==
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==External links==
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Private law school in Cleveland, Ohio, US
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Established1892
School typePrivate
DeanPaul Rose
LocationCleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Enrollment422
Faculty68 full-time
USNWR ranking89th (tie) (2024)
Bar pass rate86.73% (2022 first time takers)
Websitewww.law.case.edu

Case Western Reserve University School of Law is one of eight schools at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It was one of the first schools accredited by the American Bar Association. It is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). It was initially named for Franklin Thomas Backus, a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, whose widow donated $50,000 to found the school in 1892.

According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners, ranking 114th out of 200 ABA-approved law schools.

Academics

Front entrance to the Law School

The student-faculty ratio is 6.8:1. In August 2013, by a near-unanimous vote, the faculty adopted a new curriculum to reflect changes in the legal profession. The model is designed to blend practice, theory, and professionalism in all three years of law school. Students begin working with clients in the first year of law school. Writing and skills-oriented courses track course content to the school's substantive-law courses to blend theory and practice. Students also learn transactional drafting, financial literacy, and statutory and regulatory analysis during their first year.

During the second year of law school, students specialize and continue to build on the skills they learned during their first year. The law school's concentrations include health care law, international law, national security law, and law, technology, and the arts.

Beginning in 2016, a capstone semester became a hallmark of the third year. All students practice law full-time by working on cases through the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at the law school or through an externship. Students may do externships in the U.S. or abroad. A select number of students may competitively apply to spend their third year in Europe, completing a foreign LLM degree in addition to their Case JD, at no additional cost.

Students learn leadership through courses developed by faculty at Case Western's Weatherhead School of Management, and students graduate with e-portfolios of their work to share with employers.

Admissions

For the class entering in 2022, the school accepted 39.18% of applicants and, from those accepted, 29.08% enrolled, with enrolled students having an average 160 LSAT score and 3.66 average undergraduate GPA.

Rankings

The school was ranked 78th by the U.S. News & World Report on its 2023—2024 law school rankings. U.S. News & World Report has ranked its Health Care Law program ranked tied for 9th in the nation. In addition to its JD curriculum, the law school offers LLM and SJD degrees to foreign-trained lawyers. It also offers an Executive Master of Arts in Financial Integrity and a Masters in Patent Practice.

Journals

The "Bridge"

Academic centers

  • Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
  • Center for Law, Technology and the Arts
  • The Law-Medicine Center
  • Center for Business Law and Regulation
  • Canada-US Law Institute
  • Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
Gund Hall with Peter B. Lewis building in the background

Post-graduation employment

According to Case Western Reserve's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 65.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage-required employment nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners. The school ranked 114th out of 200 ABA-approved law schools in terms of the percentage of 2018 graduates with non-school-funded, full-time, long-term, bar passage required jobs nine months after graduation.

For 2021, Case Western Reserve's Law School Transparency under-employment score was 15%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2021 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. 93.4% of the Class of 2021 was employed in some capacity including non-professional, part-time, and short-term employment, while 0.7% were pursuing graduate degrees, and 5.9% were unemployed nine months after graduation. The most graduates, 23.5%, were employed in public service.

Ohio was the primary employment destination for 2021 Case Western Reserve graduates, with 46.1% of employed graduates working in the state. The next two most popular locations for Case Western graduates to accept employment were nine graduates in Washington, D.C., and nine in New York. In addition, two graduates from the class of 2021 accepted positions abroad.

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Case Western Reserve for the 2022-2023 academic year was $85,792. Case Western Reserve's tuition and fees on average increase 3.03% annually. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $320,718, while 47.8% of students received an annual discount greater than or equal to $40,000.

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Main article: Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumni

Among Case Western alumni are prominent elected officials, particularly from the State of Ohio. Examples of such include former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, former Ohio Attorneys General Marc Dann, Lee Fisher, and Jim Petro, and former U.S. Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Ron Klein.

Members of the bench who are Case Western alumni include Kathleen M. O'Malley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and John J. McConnell, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Both were appointed to their current positions by President Barack Obama. Associate Justice John Hessin Clarke of the United States Supreme Court (1916–1922) was educated when the school was known as Western Reserve College. Associate Justice Jeffrey Hjelm of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court is also an alumnus.

Other Case alumni are involved in the fields of government, business, academia, and the judiciary.

In popular culture

  • In 2010, the show The Deep End on ABC features a main character, Addy Fisher, who graduated from CWRU School of Law.

References

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