The annual Lecture Series at the law school is highly anticipated by students, scholars, and legal practitioners alike. Each year, we have the honor of bringing to Cleveland some of the world's most sought-after speakers and authors who share their expertise on a variety of legal and current topics.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein Prince Zeid was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in July 2014. He is the first Muslim to ever hold that position. He previously served as Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2010-2014, as President of the Security Council in 2014, and as Jordan’s Ambassador to the United States from 2007-2010. Before that, he served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR (the UN forces in the former Yugoslavia) from 1994-1996, and as Jordan’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN from 1996-2000. Prince Zeid has argued before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, and following allegations of widespread abuse being committed by UN peacekeepers in the summer of 2004, he was appointed as Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Prince Zeid earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and his PhD from Cambridge (Christ’s College) in 1993.
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University is hosting a day-long conference on legal and policy aspects of corporate wellness programs. The conference will begin with a description of current corporate efforts, a review of data on the effects of these programs on employee health and on costs, and an update on legal developments including the latest actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The conference then will address ethical and legal concerns raised by these programs including their potential for discriminating against persons with disabilities, unfairly shifting costs, compromising employee privacy and autonomy, and penalizing individuals for their immutable characteristics. Papers commissioned by the conference will be published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine.
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University is hosting a day-long conference on legal and policy aspects of corporate wellness programs. The conference will begin with a description of current corporate efforts, a review of data on the effects of these programs on employee health and on costs, and an update on legal developments including the latest actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The conference then will address ethical and legal concerns raised by these programs including their potential for discriminating against persons with disabilities, unfairly shifting costs, compromising employee privacy and autonomy, and penalizing individuals for their immutable characteristics. Papers commissioned by the conference will be published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine.
The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University is hosting a day-long conference on legal and policy aspects of corporate wellness programs. The conference will begin with a description of current corporate efforts, a review of data on the effects of these programs on employee health and on costs, and an update on legal developments including the latest actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The conference then will address ethical and legal concerns raised by these programs including their potential for discriminating against persons with disabilities, unfairly shifting costs, compromising employee privacy and autonomy, and penalizing individuals for their immutable characteristics. Papers commissioned by the conference will be published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine.
April 15, 2016 "Corporate Wellness Programs: Are they Hazardous to Well-Being? Part 1" Case Western Reserve University School of Law The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University is hosting a day-long conference on legal and policy aspects of corporate wellness programs. The conference will begin with a description of current corporate efforts, a review of data on the effects of these programs on employee health and on costs, and an update on legal developments including the latest actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The conference then will address ethical and legal concerns raised by these programs including their potential for discriminating against persons with disabilities, unfairly shifting costs, compromising employee privacy and autonomy, and penalizing individuals for their immutable characteristics. Papers commissioned by the conference will be published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine.
April 6, 2016 "The Rise of Retail Medicine – Legal and Policy Implications for the American Health System" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Elena and Miles Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum Speaker: Peter A. Pavarini
April 5, 2016 The Lasagna Effect: what do layers of bilateral and regional norms mean for multilateral intellectual property law?
March 23, 2016 "Police Reform: Why Respect for Difference Matters" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Speakers: Daniel S. Chaplin Ayesha Bell Hardaway Michael L. Nelson, Sr. Maya Simek
March 3, 2016 "Native American Tribes' & Nations' Rights to Their Intellectual Property" Case Western reserve University School of Law Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Speaker: Preston Hardison Policy Analyst for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington Summary: Indigenous peoples and nations have a wealth of knowledge and resources related to their traditional ways of life. That is found in traditional knowledge, Folklore and in genetic resources which are extremely valuable to the communities and, with the advent of the knowledge economy, increasingly valuable to non-indigenous communities and corporations. However, this increased interest in traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources has increased the risk, the perception and the reality of the misappropriation of indigenous knowledge, ranging from biopiracy to cultural misappropriation, to denigration and misuse of indigenous cultural icons and sacred knowledge. In many case, misappropriation is enabled by the mainstream intellectual property system through patenting, or copyright or trademarks. In order to combat this, indigenous peoples and nations have sought to vindicate their rights both at the domestic level and in international bodies such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Native American groups have played an important role in these efforts and the lecture will discuss the nature of the domestic and international challenges that Native American tribes face in claiming rights to their intellectual property, including traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and genetic resources.
Feb. 19, 2016 "International Arbitration & Cross Border Business Transactions: Making the Right Choices" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Speakers: Stephen P. Anway Rocío Dígon Lawrence S. Schaner Terry Szmagala Soeun (Nikole) Lee Summary: A panel of experts discusses choices in international arbitration, with specific topics including choosing between arbitration and litigation, drafting an arbitration clause, characteristics of ICC arbitration, selection of arbitrators, and interim relief and emergency arbitrators. The conference is co-sponsored by The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), United States Council for International Business (USCIB) and Squire Patton Boggs.
February 18, 2016 "The First Amendment as Killer App: How Law Made Silicon Valley" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Center for Cyberspace Law & Policy Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet Speaker: Anupam Chander Director California Law Center Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law University of California, Davis Summary: Why did the United States come to lead the world in cyberspace? Just as nineteenth century American judges altered the common law in order to subsidize industrial development, American judges and legislators altered the law at the turn of the Millennium to promote the development of Internet enterprise. Europe and Asia, by contrast, imposed strict intermediary liability regimes, inflexible intellectual property rules, and severe privacy constraints, impeding local Internet entrepreneurs. Innovations that might be celebrated in the United States could lead to jail in Japan. The American solicitude for Internet innovations was grounded in our commitment to free speech. The lecture will then consider criticism of this new free speech zone. Free speech, this lecture will argue, proves to be an industrial policy for the Information Age.
February 17, 2016 "Tackling the Human Rights Implications of the Disposal of Toxic Wastes" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Speaker: Baskut Tuncak Special Rapporteur on Toxic Waste and Human Rights United Nations Summary: The lecture addresses specific legal and human rights issues related to vulnerable populations, including children, women and workers, who are particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of hazardous substances and wastes. The lecture is be beneficial for governmental attorneys, legislators, policy makers, litigators, corporate attorneys, and labor lawyers.
September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots - Dean's Welcome, Presentation of Essay Contest Prizes" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
November 18, 2015 Contract Interpretation Reconsidered CWRU Law Downtown at the City Club Speaker: Peter M. Gerhart Professor of Law Case Western Reserve University School of Law Summary: Contract interpretation is the heart of contract law because the central objective of contract law is to determine the obligations of the contracting parties, which is what interpretation does. Unfortunately, contract interpretation is stuck in an arid debate about the role of text and context, so that courts and commentators spend more time debating the virtues of these two interpretive methodologies than they do thinking about the bargain the parties made. Professor Juliet Kostritsky and I propose a different methodology of interpretation, one that focuses on what obligations a court can infer from the bargaining relationship and the contract terms that are not in dispute. We call this efficient contextualism because it allows courts and contracting parties to determine which contextual details matter and how they matter. This, in turn, allows courts to avoid or streamline trials. My presentation will explain the ideas behind efficient contextualism and how it operates.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Arthur W. Fiske Lecture Series Institute for Global Security Law & Policy Speaker: Catherine Lotrionte Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Service Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security Georgetown University Summary: After a heated battle that played out on Capitol Hill, the US Congress, on June 2, 2015, passed the USA Freedom Act, extending three surveillance provisions of the USA Patriot Act which had expired and amending, arguably the most controversial provision of that statute, section 215, which allowed bulk collection of US phone records by the National Security Agency. According to the new provisions on bulk collection, the NSA will no longer maintain the database of US phone records. Rather the NSA will have to request such records from the phone companies holding the records pursuant to an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Both the roving wiretap and lone-wolf provisions of the USA Patriot will go back into effect under the USA Freedom Act. The new law also requires the declassification of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions containing significant legal decisions. While the new law has been described as a win for privacy, the security-versus-privacy debate is far from over. Certainly, the law has been a significant post 9-11 surveillance reform measure but the ultimate ramifications for security and privacy based on what was changed and what was not changed by the law needs further public discussion. The fact that there still remain numerous legal authorities that the federal government can rely on to conduct surveillance both domestically and internationally along with the continued concern voiced by intelligence officials about the threats facing this nation call for a much closer look at the effectiveness of the reform measures with both privacy and security in mind. This talk will outline the legal changes under the USA Freedom Act and what they mean for intelligence collection. It will also identify additional existing legal authorities for intelligence collection outside the USA Freedom Act, raising questions of whether further reform may be in the future. Lastly, it will identify some of the challenges the new law will pose for those responsible for protecting the nation from threats.
October 21, 2015 "Appraisal Arbitrage and the Future of Public Company M & A" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Women’s Law & Leadership Conference 2015: Panel Path to Success - Part 4
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October 16, 2015 Women’s Law & Leadership Conference 2015: Panel Path to Success - Part 2 Case Western Reserve University School of Law
October 16, 2015 Women’s Law & Leadership Conference 2015: Compensation Keynote and Panel - Part 1 Case Western Reserve University School of Law
October 8, 2015 The Role of Lawyers in Building a Culture of Health Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Sneaking Around the Constitution: Pretextual “Health” Laws and the Future of Roe v. Wade
September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots - Critique of Obama Administration's Approach to ICC " Case Western Reserve University School of Law
September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots - Stephen Rapp" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
September 18, 2015 "New Beginnings, Resets and Pivots - The Obama Administration's Legacy" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
September 17, 2015 "Social Media in the Workplace" Case Western Reserve University School of Law Arthur W. Fiske Lecture Series Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Speaker: Margaret J. Grover Attorney at Law Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP Summary: The lecture covers: limitations on employer access to social media; risks of using Social Media in hiring decisions; National Labor Relations Board decisions defining what constitutes protected “concerted activity” through social media; harassment and bullying through social media; expectation of privacy in employer-owned devices; and, social media policies. As social media use has soared—including in the workplace—companies and employees are more frequently at odds in proper use and oversight of social media that does not contradict rights laws, regulations, or company policies. Ohio attorneys representing employees, companies, and legislators will find this lecture of value.
September 16, 2015 "How our Fight against ISIS is Changing International Law" Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Case Western Reserve University Constitution Day Program "Sexual Misconduct on College Campuses: Justice and Due Process" Speakers: Cynthia Grant Bowman Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law Cornell University Howard Kallem Director of Title IX Compliance Duke University
This lecture explores an interesting phenomenon in Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is the apparent discord between the external policy agenda espoused by political leaders, and the seemingly grounded support for the ICC and the international criminal processes by internal legal institutions in most African states. It argues that whereas in their collective African leaders have condemned the ICC and are actively seeking ways of curtailing its authority to deal with powerful political figures across the continent, their desire to disengage completely from the ICC will probably be difficult to attain.
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