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September was the hottest month in recorded history. Last summer, smoke from Canadian forest fires blanketed the United States. Maui ignited. Libya was flooded by rains of biblical dimensions. Sea levels rose as glaciers and ice sheets melted at an accelerating rate.

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law has expanded its Financial Integrity Institute (est. 2015) and renamed it the Compliance, Risk Management and Financial Integrity Institute.  The expanded Institute will focus on the academic study of a wide-range of compliance and risk management issues.

Every year, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law honors the achievements of distinguished alumni, faculty and prominent members of the legal community by inducting new members to the Society of Benchers – the law school’s Hall of Fame. 

This article originally appeared in the fall issue of In Brief, the Law School’s alumni magazine.  As November 14 is the ten year anniversary of their joint appointment, we are republishing it here.  

Adjunct professor Ted Parran III (LAW '13) is an Assistant United States Attorney in McAllen, Texas. McAllen is a rapidly growing border city in deep south Texas, and is a focal point for transnational criminal activity of many kinds, including human smuggling.

In his role as President of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf chaired the opening plenary panel and presided over International Law Weekend on Oct. 19-21.

From Nov. 3-5, the Ault Mock Trial Team competed in the White Collar Crime Invitational Tournament hosted by Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. This competition is invitation-only and focuses on white collar criminal cases. This was the team's first time competing at the invitational.

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have been selected as the recipients of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s 2024 Richard W. Pogue Award for Leadership and Engagement.

It was a busy weekend this year at the School of Law on homecoming weekend. On Friday night, 13 new members were inducted into the Society of Benchers at their 60th induction ceremony.

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ is launching a new program to capitalize on commercializing innovations arising from the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine.  The program, which will begin this fall, is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Law.

From Oct. 26 through Oct. 28, the Ault Mock Trial Team competed in the Tournament of Champions hosted by the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas. This competition is sponsored by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

After a decade spent steering the School of Law from recovery to resurgence, co-deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have chosen to step down from their leadership roles this coming summer. 

For students interested in appellate practice, this fall has offered exciting opportunities right here on campus.

On Oct. 25, Leila Sadat of Washington University School of Law delivered the 2023 Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights and received the Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice.

Francesca E. Veres can trace her roots at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ all the way back to the 1940s when her grandfather was a student at Case Institute of Technology.