Past Lectures & Conferences

December 2020

November 2020

Wednesday
18
November
2020
Tammy Boyd
Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Legal Implications and the Need for Policy to Effect Change

Tammy Boyd, Chief Policy Officer & Counsel for Black Women’s Health Imperative

Friday
13
November
2020
President Donald J. Trump listens as European Union Ambassadoir Stavros Lambrinidis delivers remarks Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, at the announciement of an agreement between the U.S. and the European Union to increase U.S. beef exports to European markets. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
Friday
6
November
2020
Judge Willett
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium

Moderated by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professors Anat Alon-Beck, Charles Korsmo, Juliet P. Kostritsky and Robert Rapp.

October 2020

Thursday
29
October
2020
Photo of a virus
Spartans Step Up: Practicing Law During a Pandemic
  • Moderator: Jessica Berg, JD, MPH, Dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University
  • Honorable Rebecca Dallet (LAW '94), Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • Honorable Michelle Earley (LAW '99), Presiding Judge, Cleveland Municipal Court; and
  • Honorable Edmund A. Sargus Jr. (LAW '78), Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
29 -
30
October
2020
American Society of International Law logo
Tuesday
27
October
2020
photo of U.S. Supreme Court
Packing the Court? Judicial Appointments in the Next Presidential Administration

Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law 

Juscelino F. Colares, Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law, Co-Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law 

Raymond Ku, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law; Director, Center for Cyberspace Law & Policy  

Rebecca E. Zietlow, Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo  

Moderator:  Jessie Hill, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law 

Thursday
22
October
2020
Photo of Haavi Morreim
Two Confederate Statues Removed Peacefully. No Violence, No Torches. Brilliant Lawyering Instead

Haavi Morreim, JD, PhD, Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Wednesday
21
October
2020
Richard Lazarus
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

Richard J. Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University

Thursday
15
October
2020
NASA photo of algae bloom
A State-Provincial Approach to Harmful Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes Basin: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Professor Irena Creed, Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Saskatchewan and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Kathryn Friedman, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Canada Institute and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo

Monday
12
October
2020
image of soldiers in El Salvador
Planting the Seeds of Violence: How U.S. Involvement in El Salvador Led to Today’s Migration Crisis
  • Kristina Aiad-Toss, Third-year Juris Doctor student, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and International Business Law LLM Candidate at Middlesex University in London.
  • Brenna Dilley International Partners in Mission Law Student, Case Western Reserve University
  • Adela Zayas Director of International Partnerships and Programs & Regional Director for Latin America and The Caribbean for IPM
Friday
9
October
2020
Susie Ruth Powell
The Legal and Writing Adventures of Susie Ruth Powell

Susie Ruth Powell ('73), the Law School’s 2020 Centennial Medal winner and co-author of the Emmy-award-winning HBO documentary, “The Loving Story,”

Wednesday
7
October
2020
Sidney Picker Jr.
Thursday
1
October
2020
photo of a person being vaccinated
Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do

Maxwell J. Mehlman, Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law

Dr. Michael Lederman, Professor of Medicine at CWRU School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Case Medical Center

Stuart J. Youngner, Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry

September 2020

Wednesday
30
September
2020
Judge Willett
2020 Elections: Challenges to Access, Opportunities for Engagement

Jen Miller, executive director, League of Women Voters-Ohio;

Kayla Griffin and Ifeolu Claytor, All Voting Is Local

Bryan Adamson, School of Law associate dean for diversity and inclusion and the David L. and Ann Brennan professor of law.

Tuesday
29
September
2020
picture of people waiting to vote
The 2020 Election and the Future of U.S. Health Care

Panelists include Professor Jessie Hill, Sara Rosenbaum J.D., J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., Professor Joe White, Professor Sharona Hoffman and Professor Maxwell J. Mehlman

Thursday
24
September
2020
Dominic DiPuccio is chair of Taft's Mergers and Acquisitions group
Real Estate Private Equity Joint Ventures – Key Terms

Dominic DiPuccio, chair of Taft's Mergers and Acquisitions group

Wednesday
23
September
2020
Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown
Prison Abolition and a Mule

Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and legal analyst on MSNBC

Monday
21
September
2020
Photo of Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
Reproductive Rights and the Roberts Court

Jessie Hill, JD, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law

August 2020

Tuesday
25
August
2020
Wesley Lowery, news correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and author
Tucker Ellis In-House Counsel Summit: Racial Inequality in America

Wesley Lowery, news correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author

Thursday
6
August
2020
Satyajit Boolell
Should the United States back Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelagos ?

Satyajit Boolell, Director of Public Prosecutions for Mauritius

July 2020

Friday
24
July
2020
Capricia Penavic Marshall
From Cleveland to Chief of Protocol: Lessons on Diplomacy, Protocol, and Soft Power

Capricia Penavic Marshall, President and CEO, Global Engagement Strategies; Ambassador-in-Residence, Atlantic Council; former Chief of Protocol of the United States; and author, "Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You"