Law-Medicine Center

Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, was among the newly elected members of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Working on what’s next for reproductive rights

It’s hard to understand when Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, found time to sleep this year.

Every year, Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosts online and in-person events. This fall, we hosted a wide variety of lectures, panels and presentations covering a range of topics from climate change and energy justice to investment crowdfunding and crimes against humanity.

Law-Medicine Center celebrates 70 years of shaping the field

In the years leading up to the Law-Medicine Center’s founding in 1953, the Cleveland city morgue was nothing like the crisp white laboratory setting of today. Built in 1895, it had no scientific instruments, no modern examination tables, and no medical professionals.

Adjunct Professor Susan Hatters-Friedman recently won the Seymour J. Pollack Distinguished Achievement Award at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's annual meeting in Chicago. The award is given to forensic psychiatrists who have made distinguished contributions to the teaching and educational functions of forensic psychiatry.