Faculty View from CWRU

Faculty View from CWRU, Episode 6 "Foreign Policy and the 2016 Election" Assistant Professor Timothy Webster Director of Asian Legal Studies Xiangzhi Meng, LLM '12 SJD Candidate '17 In this video podcast, Assistant Professor Timothy Webster, an international law expert and Director of Asian Legal Studies, discusses the impact of the candidates' positions on foreign affairs in the 2016 Presidential election. He also explains how the boisterous candidate Donald Trump has already affected international relations in multiple countries.

Professor Sharona Hoffman Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center Interview by Kristina Moore, '17 Associate Editor of the Case Western Reserve University Law Review In this video podcast, Professor Sharona Hoffman, a national health law expert and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center, discusses her book Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. The book is a concise but comprehensive resource designed to help people who are middle aged and beyond plan for their own aging and for taking care of elderly loved ones.

Faculty View from CWRU "The Panama Papers" Richard Gordon - Professor of Law and Director of the Financial Integrity Institute Interviewed by Yorgos Papadopoulos - Class of 2016 and Fellow of the Financial Integrity Institute This year, more than 11 million documents, detailing information for more than 200,000 offshore companies associated with a Panamanian law firm were leaked. Professor Richard Gordon discusses these “Panama Papers” and explains how Case Western Reserve University School of Law is addressing the issue of money-laundering.

Faculty View from CWRU "Trying the Trial and Lawyer Misconduct" Andrew S. Pollis, Associate Professor in the Civil Litigation Clinic Interviewed by Ameera Haider - Class of 2016, ABA Moot Court team In his recent paper in the George Washington Law Review, Professor Andrew Pollis details three categories of attorney misconduct in litigation bad behavior among lawyers. Drawing upon real examples, including an Ohio prosecutor who obtained death sentences against two defendants for a the misconduct of having two simultaneous guilty-verdict murder only one of them could have committed trials in Ohio for the same crime, Pollis argues that juries should hear evidence of the misconduct be involved to discourage prevent further egregious behavior and to promote more-accurate fact finding.

Faculty View from CWRU "The Impeachment of Brazil’s President" Juscelino F. Colares - Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Interviewed by William Canterberry - 3L Law Student Why is Brazil impeaching its President? What is the legal process for doing so? Is this a coup, as the President suggests? Professor Juscelino F. Colares, who is Brazilian-born, discusses these questions and more in this video podcast.

Faculty View from CWRU, Episode 7 Dalindyebo Shabalala - Visiting Assistant Professor Interview by Katie Steiner - 2L and Editor-in-Chief of the CWRU Journal of International Law From Native American beadwork to the spices of India, generations of indigenous people have created traditional knowledge. But who owns it? How do indigenous peoples and traditional communities vindicate their intellectual property rights? Visiting Assistant Professor Dalindyebo Shabalala discusses legal issues surrounding traditional knowledge.

Faculty View From CWRU, Episode 4 Professor Michael Benza, Senior Instructor of Law Interview by Alpha Sahr Taylor, 3L student, member of the Black Law Student Association and Jessup International Moot Court Team In this video podcast, Professor Michael Benza, a noted criminal law expert, discusses the implications of the case of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot by Cleveland police in 2014. In December 2015, an Ohio grand jury did not issue an indictment against police. Benza explains how police use of force has always been a complicated national issue, yet faces new challenges in the modern age. Category