Professor Scharf was the lead author of a recently submitted Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court case of Kiyemba v. Obama, involving the issue of whether a Muslim Chinese Uighur held at Guantanamo Bay was entitled to release into the United States.

Richard Gordon, associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University, leads a study of terrorism financing for the UN Counter-terrorism Implementation Task Force. His Op Ed questions the effectiveness of recent measures undertaken by the United Nations Security Council and the Financial Action Task Force.

The First Amendment team, third year students Gretchen Woodruff Root and Benjamin Kurtis, made it to the final eight teams in the National First Amendment Moot Court Competition hosted by the First Amendment Center and Vanderbilt University Law School.

Congratulations to the CWRU Niagara Moot Court team (Christine Chambers (3L), David Byrnes (3L), David Kocan (2L), Brandon Wheeler (2L), and Candice Sengillo (1L), who made it all the way to the Final Round of the international competition held in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25-28.