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Kenny Wallace came to Case Western Reserve to make a difference. What he didn’t expect was how deeply his clients—and his fieldwork—would change him in return.

When Thomas Lipker stepped into his role as Graduate Student Council (GSC) president, he brought with him six years of experience on the Case �鶹ӳ�� campus, first as an undergraduate student studying economics and music, and then as a law student.

Over the last few years, law student Obasi Ndukwe has learned the importance of staying open to opportunities—including, in his case, the possibility of becoming a lawyer. At the time he enrolled, the Cleveland native wasn’t quite sure where his career would lead.

Case �鶹ӳ�� School of Law’s Kramer Law Clinic has been recognized in a national analysis of law school clinics for its significant contributions to legal advocacy and public interest law.

The School of Law is excited to welcome four new faculty members beginning in the 2025-26 school year. These hires reflect our continued investment in academic excellence across our top-ranked Health Law program, our Bloomberg award-winning legal writing program and our innovative new online JD program.

On April 21, the Compliance, Risk Management and Financial Integrity Institute hosted a lecture by Tom Fox on current events in compliance. Fox, who teaches as part of the Compliance and Risk Management Program at the School of Law, is a leading voice in the compliance industry.

When 3L Titus Wheeler was considering capstone options, he focused on expanding his skillset. “I wanted to learn how to combine my finance degree from the University of Toledo with the skills that I have learned at CWRU Law,” he said.

On Feb. 25, Eric Talley presented The Renewed (and Wild) Race in Corporate Law as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is an expert on the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance.

The CWRU Vis International Moot Court team recently excelled at their competition in Vienna, reaching the elimination round of 32 (out of 400 competing teams) for the first time in school history. The team was tied as the final remaining American school in the competition.

The Yemen Accountability Project (YAP) is proud to announce the publication of its sixth white paper, Torture and the Yemen Civil

Case �鶹ӳ�� School of Law’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Mock Trial team program reached a new milestone at the 2025 Constance Baker Motley National Mock Trial Competition.

As she approaches graduation this May, Maya Kapur reflects on her transformative time at the School of Law. Her academic journey has been enriched not only by her coursework and involvement in various student organizations, but also by a study abroad experience that expanded her legal perspective beyond U.S. borders.

The Case �鶹ӳ�� School of Law again has the highest rated environmental law program in the state of Ohio, according to the just-released 2025 US News & World Report law school rankings.

The new 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools listing include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools, with Case �鶹ӳ�� School of Law earning top rankings in multiple areas of concentration.

The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Yaron Covo will be joining Case �鶹ӳ�� as an assistant professor on the tenure track. Covo earned an LLB from Tel Aviv University Law School (2014), and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia Law School (2019 and 2023).