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School of Law team wins award for one of the top ten briefs in the world
The Case Western Jessup International Law Moot Court team, which had won the Best Oralist and Best Brief Awards at the national round of the competition in Chicago in February, has just been notified that its brief went on to win the Dillard Award as one of the top ten briefs in the world.
Professor Adler quoted in national news about Ricci v. DeStefano ruling
Jonathan Adler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, has been quoted by many media outlets including the Associated Press, The Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano and the implications for Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor
Patrick Dowd ’09 named Best Oralist on winning moot court competition team
School of Law graduate Patrick Dowd ’09 recently represented the law school at the ninth annual specialization course in international criminal law at the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science in Siracusa, Italy, where his team won the moot court competition.
Professor Scharf speaks to international experts about JCE
School of Law Professor Michael Scharf delivered the “Grotian Lecture” at the Asser Institute in The Hague on June 23, 2009, to an audience of 150 international criminal law experts.
Professor Giannelli’s work cited by U.S. Supreme Court
For the seventh time, the United States Supreme Court has cited Professor Paul Giannelli’s work. In Massachusetts v. Melendez-Diaz, decided June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the admission of a lab report identifying a substance as cocaine violated the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation if the analyst did not testify.
Professor Hoffman quoted in Modern Medicine about face transplants
Sharona Hoffman, law professor and Co-Director of The Law-Medicine Center, was quoted in a Modern Medicine article entitled "Making faces: Latest transplant operations include one double hand replacement."
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Stephanie Hoffer
(J.D. 2001)

Stephanie Hoffer is a visiting assistant professor at the Northwestern University School of Law. She teaches business entity taxation, tax policy, federal income taxation, and civil tax procedure. In June of 2008, she will join the faculty of the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University as an assistant professor of law, where she will teach contracts, international tax and tax policy. Stephanie’s scholarship focuses primarily on quantitative and qualitative comparison of foreign tax systems with an eye toward the effect of taxation on commerce and the social fabric. She presented her most recent work, “Caesar as God’s Banker: A Comparison of Church Taxes in Germany and the Early United States” at the Berlin meeting of Law and Society as well as law schools across the country.
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UPCOMING EVENTS Calendar >>
Jul 3 Summer 2009 Academic Calendar: Independence Day; No classes, building closed
Jul 10 Regular Summer Law Classes End
Jul 13 Final exams (verify specific date w/ Instructor)
Jul 14 Final exams (verify specific date w/ Instructor)
Jul 15 Final exams (verify specific date w/ Instructor)
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