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Case Global
v. 13 no. 1 2021
The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Celebrating 30 Years:
The Cox Center marks three decades of dedication
to international law
Ranked #16 in the country for international law
by U.S. News & World Report
About the Center
5 Since its founding in 1991, CWRU’s
Frederick K. Cox International Law
Center has trained the next generation
of international lawyers while making
an impact locally, nationally and around
the world. The Cox Center serves as the
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hub of the law school’s international law
program, which includes the Canada-US
Law Institute, the Institute for Global
Security Law & Policy, the Henry T.
9
King Jr. War Crimes Research Office,
the Yemen Accountability Project, the
Immigration Law Clinic, and the Journal
of International Law.
The Cox Center Team
Michael P. Scharf
Co-Dean, School of Law
Stephen J. Petras Jr.
Director, Frederick K. Cox International
Law Center
Juscelino Colares
THE ACADEMY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW:
Co-Director, Frederick K. Cox International
Law Center
A Catalyst for Change and Innovation
Avidan Cover
Director, Institute for Global Security Law
and Policy
Shannon French
Director, Inamori International Center for
Join Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland Ethics and Excellence
this fall for a two-day, in-person event to explore how academia
SEPTEMBER 24-25 Richard Gordon
has influenced war crimes prosecutions, peace negotiations, and
the pursuit of human rights since the Second World War. CLEVELAND, OHIO 16 22 Director, Financial Integrity Institute,
and Associate Director, Frederick K. Cox
International Law Center
James Johnson
This conference celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Registration is free, but Director, Henry King War Crimes
there is a $100 charge for
Inside this Issue
Research Office
endowment of our Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and
the 25th anniversary of the Public International Law & Policy alumni seeking CLE credit Ted Parran
Managing Director, Canada-U.S. Law Institute
Group’s founding. or $200 for non-alumni Jonathan Gordon
seeking CLE. 4 I nternational accolades for 10 lobal impact
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Director, SJD Program
Co-Dean Scharf See where Case Western Reserve School
Featured speakers include: of Law alumni are making an impact in Jack Turner
See the full schedule 5 tudent-led initiative documents
S international law Director, Foreign Graduate LLM Program
and sign up for your atrocities in Yemen
13 T hree decades of progress
Su He
free tickets today: 6 oing global—at home
G Notable milestones of the Frederick K.
Director, Joint Program in International
Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution
case.edu/law/our-school/ How students gained hands-on
international law experiences amid
Cox International Law Center’s first
Elizabeth Woyczynski
30 years
events-lectures the pandemic Administrative Director, Office of Foreign
16 WRU takes top honors
C Graduate Legal Studies
8 WRU faculty connect with human rights
C in international moot court competitions Michael Benza, Carol Fox, Kathryn Mercer,
experts in Thailand Douglas Pilawa, Elizabeth Safier, and
17 aking an impact on immigration
M Denakpon Tchobo
Judge Silva Fernandez de Dr. Mark Ellis, Executive 8 L aw faculty, students push for Jessup, ICC, and Vis International Moot Court
Gurmendi, President of the Director of the International accountability for violence by police 18 ews of our International Law Faculty
N Team Coaches
Assembly of State Parties of the Bar Association
International Criminal Court 9 lumni spotlight
A 22 iplomatic tendencies
D Eric Siler
John Sopko, Inspector General Director of Academic Centers
for Afghanistan
Case Global x 3
CWRU’s The Yemen Accountability
international International accolades
Project is part of the Global
Accountability Network,
alongside the Syrian
law program for Co-Dean Scharf
Accountability Project and the
Venezuelan Accountability
earns top When the fledgling International Criminal Court Mock Trial
Project. It is also affiliated with
the Public International Law
rankings Competition foundered a decade ago, Case Western Reserve
University School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf jumped into
action, co-founding the International Criminal Court Moot Court
& Policy Group, a Nobel Peace
Prize-nominated NGO that
assists in international war
In a year of tumult, one thing remained Competition in The Hague, along with Leiden University School
crimes prosecutions. YAP is
steady: Case Western Reserve of Law Professor and Grotius Center Director Carsten Stahn.
University’s international law program supported by a three-year grant
earned top ratings from national Since then, the competition has thrived—growing to include from alumnus Timothy Geisse
publications. participants from 95 universities from 50 countries and earning (LAW ’84) and the John F. and
sponsorship from the International Bar Association (IBA). Mary A. Geisse Foundation.
Among the reasons for highlighting
our program: the Frederick K. Cox In recognition of his “extraordinary work” with the competition,
International Law Center’s $4 million the IBA presented Scharf with a leadership award, recognizing his creativity, energy, and
endowment—one of the largest in expertise in writing the ICC Moot Court Problems and Bench Memos. Mark Ellis, executive
the nation; our adaptability amid the director of the IBA, said the association wouldn’t have entered into the new partnership, which
pandemic to support our students (see includes naming rights for the competition, if not for Scharf’s leadership as chair of the Board
p. 6); and an analysis of our academic of Advisors.
strongholds, including concentrations,
clinics, externships, journals, moot court The award comes just months after Scharf was voted president-elect of the American branch
success and more. of the International Law Association, the international non-governmental organization
involved in developing and restating international law.
#16 Student-led initiative
Scharf has three decades of leadership in the American branch, which is among the oldest
DOCUMENTS ATROCITIES
and largest of the association’s 63 branches. He served nearly 10 years as its vice president
and member of its board of directors, twice chaired International Law Weekend—its annual
three-day conference in New York City that brings together 2,000 academics, practitioners and
international law program, students—and organized three regional meetings at Case Western Reserve.
U.S. News & World Report
in Yemen
8
Scharf will serve as president-elect until 2022, when he will succeed Professor Leila Sadat of
Washington University in St. Louis as president for up to a pair of two-year terms. Three years ago, a group of Case Western prosecutions at the Special Court for Sierra
Reserve University School of Law students Leone and director of the CWRU War Crimes
came together to launch the Yemen Research Office. and individuals accountable for the atrocities
Accountability Project (YAP) to document that have been committed in Yemen since
spots from the prior year Conference takes on Scharf’s and map war crimes and crimes against
humanity in the Yemeni Civil War.
“When we launched the project, we were
hoping for a handful of volunteers,” said
the conflict began.
“Grotian Moments” concept
A+
Johnson. “Instead, dozens of law students The first white paper, a 59-page report,
Last fall, the team’s extensive work began came on board despite the workloads and explores how civilian victims of the war in
to come to fruition with the release of YAP’s pressures of school. These students are Yemen can seek justice for the grave crimes
Building upon School of Law Co-Dean Michael first white paper, “Aiding and Abetting: volunteering their time because they see this perpetrated against them. The second, a
Scharf’s concept of “Grotian Moments”—paradigm Holding States, Corporations, and Individuals as an opportunity to make a difference.” 51-page document, examines evidence
shifts and tipping points in international law— Accountable for War Crimes in Yemen.” from 2015 to 2018 that illustrates patterns
rating, National Jurist’s the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, Six months later, the group published its By the time Johnson finished recruiting, of widespread attacks on civilian objects
PreLaw magazine convened a workshop this spring, titled “Grotian
4 1
second, “Starvation: Building the Case for more than 70 law students joined the effort indispensable to survival, such as food
Moments in International Law.” Prosecuting Starvation Crimes in Yemen.” to help bring justice and accountability production and water supply, and outlines
to a conflict that has cost more than avenues for bringing charges against
Scharf, whose two books on the topic were published The YAP is the first comprehensive effort 100,000 lives. Over the next two years, YAP perpetrators of these crimes.
by Cambridge University Press, presented a paper on “Grotian to document atrocities in the country’s civil volunteers worked to build a database of
Moments: The Concept.” Twenty-two international law experts from war and lay the foundation for successful potential war crimes in Yemen’s civil war, Johnson estimates the entire project will be
across the globe then presented papers on the application of the Grotian Moment
years in a row of 10 schools prosecutions of the responsible parties. The analyze data, and deliver meaningful reports complete in another three years, and hopes
concept to a variety of areas; the papers will be published in a book by Brill.
given this honor student-run project is supervised by Adjunct to international organizations and NGOs in a the students’ work will prove invaluable to
Professor James Johnson, the former chief of worldwide effort to hold states, corporations international prosecutors.
4 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 5
GOING GLOBAL—AT HOME
At the same time, many students were able to intern for international law
placements in-person or remotely in 2020 and 2021, including at:
• International Law Institute, African Centre for Legal Excellence, Kampala, Uganda*
• U.S. Court of International Trade, New York, New York*
How students gained hands-on international Altogether, the centers’ directors developed • Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Washington, D.C.*
27 impactful projects—more than enough • Human Rights Watch, New York and Washington, D.C.*
to cover every student who had lost an
law experiences amid the pandemic
• Immigrant Defenders Law Center Cross Border, San Diego, California*
international internship. The projects include
working with: • Cambodian Center for Human Rights, Phnom Penh, Cambodia*
• Scharf on a Public International Law & • International Foundation for Art Research, New York*
In ranking Case Western Reserve University Undaunted by the pandemic, the leaders Research Office (directed by Adjunct Policy Group project analyzing the shift • International Bar Association, London*
School of Law’s International Law Program of Case Western Reserve’s international Professor James Johnson) the Institute for in security council power to the General
• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Office of Co-Prosecutors,
among the top 10 in the nation, PreLaw law program worked together to create Global Security Law and Policy (directed by Assembly;
Phnom Penh, Cambodia*
magazine recognized the law school’s funded an alternative arrangement for students Associate Dean Avidan Cover) the Canada- • Petras to develop the first compendium
• Department of Defense, Office of Military Commissions, Washington, D.C.
internships as its secret to placing so many of who lost their summer placements. Such US Law Institute (directed by Petras) and analyzing all the Canadian and U.S. laws
its graduates in the field of international law. students were invited to work remotely for the Public International Law & Policy Group that apply to the Great Lakes; • American Red Cross, Office of General Counsel & International Humanitarian
the summer as research fellows for one (directed by Dean Michael Scharf). Students Law, Washington, D.C.
• Johnson to create dossiers for potential
Every summer, 30 or so Case Western of the law school’s Case Global centers, availing themselves of this option were • Coast Guard JAG Office of Maritime and International Law, Washington, D.C.
prosecution of Yemen War Crimes; and
Reserve law students undertake institutes and affiliated organizations, provided $1,500 stipends and could earn
international law internships around the including the Cox Center (co-directed by three credits under the umbrella of the law • Cover on a report examining nations’ • U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Chief Counsel, Washington, D.C.
globe, and with its $4 million endowment, the Professors Juscelino Colares and Steve school’s externship program. responses to the coronavirus pandemic • ICPO-INTERPOL, Lyon, France*
law school’s Frederick K. Cox International Petras) the Henry King War Crimes and assessing their compliance with and
respect for human rights. • The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) The Hague*
Law Center provides stipends to cover the
students’ travel and living expenses. In *Remote internships
addition, the law school grants academic
credit for these placements.
In early 2020, law students obtained a
record number of foreign placements.
Then, the coronavirus hit. Many
law firms, government agencies,
international organizations and
NGOs either moved to remote
internship experiences or
canceled internships for the
summer of 2020 altogether.
Dennis Schwartz spent the summer In 2020, Kathryn Meyer interned with
interning at International Law the Office of the Co-Prosecutors,
Institute - African Centre for Legal Extraordinary Chambers in the
Excellence. Courts of Cambodia; this year, she
was with the American Red Cross.
Sydney Bell interned at INTERPOL in Brooke Behrmann interned in summer
summer 2021. 2021 at International Law Institute -
African Centre for Legal Excellence.
6 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 7
CWRU faculty connect with
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
John Sopko, Inspector General for Afghanistan
human rights experts in Thailand 1977 graduate John F. Sopko was sworn in
The pandemic-induced proliferation of as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan
Zoom meetings spurred a new international Reconstruction on July 2, 2012. Almost
connection: Case Western Reserve a decade later, he continues to serve in
University School of Law faculty members the position, overseeing the largest aid
recently met virtually with a team of Thai program since the Marshall Plan. This year,
human rights experts, through a discussion the U.S. withdrew most of its troops from
organized by the U.S. Department of State Afghanistan, but the aid continues—and,
International Visitor Leadership Program with it, the mismanagement that Sopko and
and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. his team continue to combat.
Using simultaneous translation, the “We have spent more money in Afghanistan
conversation centered on best practices to on reconstruction than we did on the entire
protect the human rights of marginalized Marshall Plan to rebuild all of Europe after
communities and indigenous people WWII—over $136 billion,” Sopko said. “My
in Thailand, including issues of mass job—and the job of my nearly 200 auditors,
detention, mistreatment and expulsion from investigators, analysts and engineers—is
Faculty in the law school met with Thai human rights experts—along with interpreters—for a
national parks. to protect that money from fraud, waste
live discussion on Zoom.
and abuse and ultimately improve the way
“Hearing about the Thai lawyers’ dedicated challenges was incredibly illuminating and Security Law & Policy. “We look forward our government does development work in Special Inspector General Sopko (right) tours a training facility for Afghan Air Force pilots at
efforts to surmount discriminatory humbling,” said Avidan Cover, associate to a sustained dialogue and potential Afghanistan and elsewhere around the globe.” Kabul International Airport.
government practices as well as rule of law dean and director of the Institute for Global partnership on these issues.”
Prior to his appointment to the Inspector
General position by President Barack Obama,
Sopko served as a federal prosecutor, counsel
to several congressional committees, and a
Law faculty, students
partner at a large Washington, D.C., law firm.
“But this is the most interesting job I have
push for accountability ever had,” he said. “I’m not stationed in
Afghanistan, but I try to travel there at least
for violence by police
four times a year for anywhere from a week
to two weeks visiting my staff, meeting Sopko meets with U.S. Army Sopko receives a briefing Sopko greets President Ashraf
with our government officials as well as the General Austin S. Miller, the on biometric ID systems Ghani at the Presidential
president of Afghanistan and other Afghan current commander of U.S. and while visiting a unit of Palace in Kabul.
As racial justice and anti-police-brutality with Physicians for Human Rights, filed government, business and civil society NATO Resolute Support Mission Afghan security forces in
protests took place in cities across the a joint submission to the United Nations’ representatives.” forces in Afghanistan. northern Afghanistan.
United States in summer 2020, reports Special Rapporteurs on Health and
showed attacks by federal and local police Peaceful Assembly and Association. The In the nine years since he was appointed more than $1.4 billion in savings to the U.S. all the good it’ll do. We’ve also learned that
on medics—using mace, pepper balls, project was led by Professor Avidan Cover inspector general, Sopko and his team have taxpayer just from their audits. to be effective, reconstruction efforts must
flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and assisted by a group of student Cox uncovered a great deal of fraud. “Our criminal be based on a deep understanding of the
and bean bag rounds, as well as physically Center fellows. investigators have conducted nearly 1,100 Sopko said the most important lesson traditions of the host nation.”
pushing, grabbing and shoving individuals. investigations, made 129 arrests and secured he’s learned from Afghanistan is that
Their extensive submission 147 guilty pleas and convictions,” Sopko “oversight—the ability of American oversight Sopko praised CWRU School of Law’s
Such actions, a group of Case Western documents how law enforcement said. “Their work has resulted in $1.6 billion officials to follow the money—is mission expansive national security law offerings
Reserve University School of Law students both targeted and indiscriminately in criminal fines, restitutions, forfeitures, critical, particularly in a country with a deep and encourages students to pursue jobs in
and faculty said, impinged on the rights attacked medics. These actions, civil settlements, and other savings and history of corruption.” the field.
to health and peaceful assembly under the submission contends, violate recoveries for the government.”
international law. international treaties to which the Known for his blunt talk, Sopko said that: “If “It is a tremendous area to work in,” he
United States is a party, opening the In addition, his team has issued more we keep sending American taxpayer dollars said, “and covers the gamut from foreign
This spring, the law school’s Institute for door for international accountability and than 600 audits and other reports, made to Afghanistan, without strong oversight, economic development, weapons exports,
Global Security Law and Policy, together pressure for reforms. more than 1,000 recommendations to then we may as well just light that money money laundering and human rights issues.”
U.S. government agencies, and identified on fire on the streets of downtown Kabul for
8 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 9
Global impact 3 Immigration Law
3 Austin Fragomen (’68)
founder of Fragomen, the world’s
largest immigration firm (New
Rachel Berman-Vaporis (’14)
Attorney-Adviser, Board
of Immigration Appeals
Seth Garfinkle (‘17)
Attorney Advisor, Executive
Office for Immigration Review,
See where Case Western Reserve School of Law
York) (Washington, D.C.) Denver Immigration Court
Lisa Scott (‘86) Malea Hetrick (’17) Kate Masetta-Alvarez (’18)
alumni are shaping international law
founder of Scott Global Migration Attorney Advisor, Executive DOJ Immigration Law Appeals
Law Group (Chicago) Office for Immigration Review, Attorney (Washington, D.C.)
Cleveland Immigration Court
Joseph Edlow (’07) Amelia Wester (‘19)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law has dozens of law alumni occupying prominent positions in General Counsel of U.S. Aliza Corinne Lopes-Baker (‘17) Associate Immigration Attorney
government agencies, international organizations, NGOs, corporations and law firms around the world. Citizenship and Immigration Attorney Advisor, Executive at Blake Immigration Law
Services (Washington, D.C.) Office for Immigration Review, (Alexandria, Virginia)
Cleveland Immigration Court
Here’s a peek into the current roles of some of our esteemed graduates who are eager to mentor our
students and help launch their international law careers.
1 2 National Security Law 4
5 John Sopko (’77) 4 Kristina Aiad-Toss (‘21)
Inspector General of Afghanistan Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S.
Reconstruction (Washington, D.C.) Customs and Border Protection,
Office of Rules and Regulations
Kevin Nealer (’78)
(Washington, D.C.)
Principal of Snowcroft Group
(Washington, D.C.) Jazmine Edwards (‘21)
Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S.
Admiral Janet Donovan (’83)
Customs and Border Protection,
former head of the Navy Reserve
Office of Rules and Regulations
JAG Corps (Washington, D.C.)
(Washington, D.C.)
Robert Altneu (’91)
Amanda Makhoul (‘21)
Director of the U.S. Customs
Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S.
Office of Rules & Regulations
Customs and Border Protection,
Ted Fowles (’00)
Government/International Human Rights Law
Office of Rules and Regulations
Coast Guard Chief Trial Judge (Washington, D.C.)
Organizations Swithin Monyantwali (’92) Margaux Day (’09)
(Washington, D.C.)
Rick Batson (’02)
Executive Director and Co- Policy Director, Accountability Commanding Officer of Coast
5
Stephen Petras (‘79) Ruth Mary Hackler (’05) Founder of the International Counsel (Washington, D.C.) Guard Legal Service Command in
Chairman of the Board of Prosecuting Attorney, Cambodia Law Institute - Africa Center for Niki Dasarathi (’09) Norfolk
Directors of the Council of the Genocide Tribunal (Phnom Penh, Legal Excellence (Uganda and
Great Lakes Region Cambodia) Senior Advisor, American Keith Petty (‘02)
South Africa) Bar Association Rule of Law Major in Army JAG, Legal Liaison
Anne Simon (‘83) Ahran Kang McCloskey (’06) Chris Rassi (’03) Initiative (Washington, D.C.) Officer for U.S. Army Europe at
Senior Advisor, Consular Affairs, Attorney Adviser, Office of the Director of the Office of Kimberly Brown (’12) the US Embassy in Berlin
U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser, U.S. Department Secretary-General, International
of State (Washington, D.C.) Senior Governance Adviser, Katharine Quaglieri (’11)
1 Mohamed Chambas (’84) Federation of the Red Cross Twitter’s governance framework Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S.
head of the U.N. Africa Bureau Chelan Bliss (’07) (Geneva, Switzerland) for global content moderation, Customs and Border Protection
(New York) Senior Foreign Service Officer, 2 Andres Perez (’04) former Associate Director of (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Department of State Attorney Advisor at UN High the Carter Center’s Rule of Law
Ambassador Capricia Marshall
(Washington, D.C.) Phil Hadji (’12)
(’90) Commissioner for Human Program (Atlanta)
Assistant General Counsel,
former Chief of Protocol, Ra’id Alsaedi (‘09) Rights (Geneva, Switzerland) Rachel Wolbers (’12) Department of Navy
U.S. Department of State Chief of Staff of the Prime Zach Lampell (’08) Public Policy Manager, Facebook (Washington, D.C.)
(Washington, D.C.) Minister of Iraq, formerly Legal Adviser, International Oversight Board (Washington,
Inspector General of the Iraqi Ted Parran (’13)
Francois Philippe Champagne Center for Not-for-Profit Law D.C.)
Army and Chief Investigative Assistant Chief Counsel with
(’94) (Washington, D.C.)
Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal the Department of Homeland
former Canadian Foreign Kathleen Gibson (’08)
(Baghdad) Security (Cleveland)
Minister, currently Minister of Legal Adviser, Danish Refugee
Innovation, Science and Industry Nate Quick (’09) Hyder Syed (’13)
Council in Israel (West Bank)
(Ottawa, Ontario) Prosecutor, Kosovo Tribunal Assistant General Counsel,
(The Hague) INTERPOL (Lyon, France)
10 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 11
6 International Law Judges
Three Decades
7 Kathleen O’Malley (’82)
Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the
7
Federal Circuit (Washington, D.C.)
Jennifer Peyton (’98)
Immigration Court Judge (Chicago)
of Progress
Jennifer Riedthaler Williams (’01)
Immigration Court Judge (Cleveland)
Duncan Gaswaga (’13)
Judge of the Uganda High Court
International Crimes Chamber (Kampala)
NOTABLE MILESTONES OF THE FREDERICK K. COX
International
Law Professors (full-time) INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER’S FIRST 30 YEARS
International
Business and Trade Law Chip Carter (’98) The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center marks its 30th anniversary
University of Pittsburgh School
Ritchie Thomas (‘64) Thomas Au (’13) of Law this year. In honor of the occasion, we’re taking a look back at some of the
International Trade Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Ken Davis (’74) remarkable accomplishments of our past three decades.
Squire Patton Boggs Office of the U.S. Trade Wisconsin Law School
(Washington, D.C.) Representative (Washington,
6 Rick Newcomb (’73) D.C.)
Amos Guiora (’74)
University of Utah School of Law
8 9
Partner and head of DLA Piper Zach Walker (’13) Charles Norchi (’86)
Greg McNeal (’06)
International Practice Section International Trade Counsel University of Maine School of
Pepperdine Law School
(Washington, D.C.) at Picard Kentz & Rowe Law
(Washington, D.C.) Bryan Mercurio (’00)
Craig Chapman (’80) 9 Jack Turner (’02)
University of Hong Kong Faculty
Partner and Chair of Sidley Tyler Kimberly (’15) Case Western Reserve
of Law
Austin’s Global Capital Markets
group (New York)
Judicial Clerk, U.S. Court of
International Trade (New York 8 Katy Mercer (’83)
University School of Law 2001
City) Case Western Reserve Rafael Dean Brown (’02) Bruce J. Klatsky, chair
Laura Quatella (’82) Qatar University College of Law and CEO of Phillips Van
University School of Law
General Counsel of Lenovo Gabrielle Feuer (’16) Heusen Corp. and a
Mary-Beth Moylan (’94)
Group (New York and Beijing) Assistant General Counsel,
TransDigm Group Inc. University of the Pacific
1991 member of the Board of
Michele Gon (‘85) Directors of Human Rights
(Cleveland) McGeorge School of Law A multimillion-dollar gift
Partner and International Watch, provides a special
from the Gund Foundation
Business Law specialist at Han Brandan Saslow (’16) endowment to the law
endows the Cox
Kun Law Offices (Shanghai). Litigation Attorney, Office of school for a human rights
International Law Center.
Chief Counsel, Department of lecture series and an
William Hayes (‘88) That same year, CWRU
Senior Lawyer and Head of Commerce (Washington, D.C.) Study abroad opens doors to launches its LLM program
annual fellowship for two
students to Human Rights
Legal & Business Affairs,
R&D and Innovation, British
Teresa Azzam (‘19)
International Arbitration
employment overseas for lawyers from outside
the United States, which
Watch.
Broadcasting Corp. (London) Associate, Squire Patton Boggs CWRU School of Law has semester abroad programs with now enrolls more than 130
(Dubai) 17 law schools on five continents and three concurrent foreign students a year.
Ashlee Lee (’07)
International Trade Counsel for Douglas Pilawa (‘19) degree programs with universities in London, Paris and 2002
Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta) International Dispute Madrid, where our students receive both a foreign LLM and The Cox Center’s War Crimes Research Office
Resolution Associate at Squire our JD degree in just three years at no extra cost. and War Crimes Research Lab are established,
Heather Doherty (’09)
Patton Boggs (Cleveland) now directed by James Johnson, former chief
International Trade Compliance After earning his concurrent degree at University of Paris,
of prosecutions of the Special Court for Sierra
Counsel, Nidek Motor Corp. Garo Yaghsezian (‘19) Garo Yaghsezian (‘19) secured a position at the Paris office Leone. To date, the office has provided over
(Washington, D.C.) Associate, Kramer, Levin, of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Jessica Turner (‘19) 250 research memos to international tribunals,
Naftalis & Frankel (Paris) obtained a job at Avonhurst Legal Services in London after
Luke Tillman (’11) piracy courts, INTERPOL and the U.S. military
Customs and International earning her concurrent degree at Middlesex University in Samantha Power, then U.S. commissions.
Trade Lawyer at Steptoe and the United Kingdom. And Teresa Azzam (‘20) got a job as an Permanent Representative to
Johnson (Washington, D.C.) international arbitration counsel in Squire Patton Boggs’ Frederick K. Cox, Executive the United Nations, chats with
Dubai office after earning her concurrent degree at Comillas Director of the Gund the Editor in Chief of the Journal
University in Madrid. Foundation and members of International Law after
of the Gund family. delivering the Klatsky Lecture.
12 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 13
Three Decades of Progress
2005
Cox Center War Crimes Research
program, in association with the
Case Western Reserve
Public International Law and Policy 2009 2014
Journal of International Law Group, is nominated for the Nobel
Volume 46 Fall 2013 Issues 1 & 2
Peace Prize by the chief prosecutor CWRU launches fundraising
initiative resulting in an
CWRU debuts first 2018
rates End Game!
of the Special Court for Sierra concurrent degree program
Journal of International Law
Case Western Reserve
An International Conference on
Students and faculty create the Yemen
Combating Maritime Piracy
endowment for internship with Comilas University
nd Accountability
Leone for its work, which led to the
inals?
FOREWORD
Accountability Project. Funded by a grant from
financing
support in honor of the late
Michael P. Scharf & Foreword: End Game! An International Conference on Combating
in Madrid, through which
Matthew E. Carlton Maritime Piracy
successful prosecution of Liberian
y Cooperation and keynote lecture
Henry King (1918-2009), a the John F. and Mary A. Geisse Foundation,
racy: Financing and Lt. Gen. Roméo Perspectives on the Growing Trend of Child Piracy
students can spend their 3L
ntion Becomes Necessary Dallaire
President Charles Taylor.
issues in assessing current trends and efforts to
irates combat piracy
nciples Approach
Michael J. Kelly
Ved P. Nanda &
Jonathan Bellish
The Pre-History of Piracy as a Crime & Its Definitional Odyssey
Moving from Crisis Management to a Sustainable Solution for Somali
Piracy: Selected Initiatives and the Role of International Law CWRU professor and former year abroad and graduate 70 students working under the supervision of
Professor James Johnson produce whitepapers,
sion That Is Capable of
Nuremberg prosecutor.
Captain J. Ashley Global Conventions on Maritime Crimes Involving Piratical Acts
with both a foreign LLM and
Roach
or Multinational Hon. Rosemelle Assessing Current Trends and Efforts to Combat Piracy:
Mutoka A Case Study on Kenya
a conflict narrative, a crime-based matrix, draft
Sandra L. Hodgkinson Current Trends in Global Piracy: Can Somalia’s Successes Help Combat
our JD degree in just three
Vol. 46 Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and Elsewhere?
cy Sulakshna Beekarry Assessing Current Trends and Efforts to Combat Piracy
Nos. 1 & 2
Paul R. Williams & Maritime Piracy: A Sustainable Global Solution
indictments and analytical dossiers to lay the
Pages Lowry Pressly
1–462
years. Subsequently, CWRU
Takeshima Dispute
Fall
groundwork for eventual prosecutions (see p. 5). 2021
2013
has added concurrent degree
programs with Middlesex
2003 2011 University in London and
The Appeals Chamber of
the International Criminal
CWRU Jessup Team wins the University of Paris. Court cites the Amicus
The Institute for National
Security Law and Policy Baxter Award for best brief in Brief written by Dean
is established. Case the worldwide competition. Scharf and colleagues in
Western Reserve Journal The Cox Center develops a the Ntaganda case.
of International Law Human Rights Documentary
(established in 1968) Film Series, which brings
moves to a double issue in filmmakers to lead
symposium format. discussions of the films.
2007
CWRU approves semester- 2012 2015
long foreign internships
2004 at international tribunals. CWRU becomes the only
law school with its own
Our Canada-U.S. Law Institute
celebrates its 40th anniversary. 2019
Cox Center creates the That same year, CWRU
adds three specialized LLM talk radio show when it Cox Center submits its
International Humanitarian
Award for Advancing degree programs. debuts “Talking Foreign
Policy” radio program,
2013 first Amicus Brief to the
U.S. Supreme Court, in
Global Justice; UN Under- hosted by Michael Scharf, CWRU launches first a case concerning the
Secretary General for Legal on WCPN, Cleveland’s NPR international law interpretation of the
Affairs Hans Corell is the station. massive open online Hague Child Abduction
inaugural recipient.
2008 course (MOOC) on Convention. The
Coursera. To date, over International Criminal
CWRU wins the World 135,000 students from Court cites a report
Championship of the Jessup 139 countries have on crimes against the
International Law Moot taken the “Introduction Rohingya people written
Court competition. to International Criminal by several CWRU law
Law” free MOOC. CWRU professors and alumni.
creates Maritime
Piracy Prosecution
Project, providing
assistance to tribunals
2016
in Kenya, Mauritious Immigration Law Clinic is established. Under 2020
and the Seychelles. the law school’s new capstone requirement,
Cox Center hosts the 10th
CWRU launches its 3L students earn a semester of credit
annual American Society of
SJD program, which externing at any international institution.
International Law Midyear
now enrolls 60 foreign The Cox Center launches annual Trade
Meeting.
students a year. Law Conference, organized by Co-Director
Juscelino Colares. The new Master of Arts in
Financial Integrity degree launches.
14 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 15
Making an impact on immigration
Leader of Immigration Law
Clinic—whose parents came to
the U.S. decades ago—helps
students score major victory
On June 1, 2021, United States President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued
a proclamation declaring June National Immigrant Heritage Month,
encouraging reflection on the stories of “courageous families who
ventured here—be it centuries ago, or just this year—from every part
of the world to seek new possibilities and help to forge our nation.”
One family to make such a journey was that of Aleksandar Cuic,
adjunct professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at the
Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center since 2017. Originally from Serbia
CWRU TAKES TOP HONORS
(the former Yugoslavia), Cuic’s parents immigrated to the United
States in 1970, first settling in New Jersey and then in Cleveland as
they found jobs in slaughterhouses and factories to give their three
children better opportunities. Eventually, they opened their own
in international moot court competitions
business.
The youngest of his siblings, Cuic describes his journey to a career in
immigration law as serendipitous—the result of degrees in Russian
Jessup Competition Ripped from the headlines, this year’s ICC “We are absolutely thrilled with how the Vis language and international business, an MBA and a JD paired with
Year after year, CWRU excels in the Jessup Moot Court problem concerned charges of team performed this year,” said the team’s well-timed career opportunities.
International Law Moot Court Competition. “viral homicide” involving the escape of a co-coaches Katy Mercer and Douglas Pilawa.
It has won regionals nine times in the past deadly artificially created virus, which was “The competition gets harder each year and Now, he’s working with clients as a partner at Brown Immigration
two decades and, in 2008, CWRU won the kept secret and resulted in hundreds of the Case Western team continues to improve Law in Cleveland—while also shaping the next generation of
World Championship—the last U.S. team to thousands of deaths. to meet that challenge.” immigration lawyers at the School of Law. For nearly a decade, Cuic
do so. This year, CWRU won best oralist and and his students in the law school’s Immigration Law Clinic have “Cleveland is the ideal place for an immigration clinic since we have
brief awards, was the top-ranked U.S. team, “To be ranked among the top teams CWRU’s Secret to Success? been on the frontlines of the battle for human rights in America’s one of the nation’s regional immigration courts and a continuing flow
and was ranked third in the world out of over on this world stage was an incredible CWRU is one of the only law schools that immigration courts. of new immigrants from all over the world,” said Cuic.
600 participating law schools in the global accomplishment for CWRU School of Law,” selects 1Ls to participate alongside upper-
competition. the team’s coach, Professor Michael Benza, class students in its three international law This spring, they scored a major victory. The clinic affords law students the opportunity to represent clients
said. “We are so proud of all this team moot court teams. before the Department of Justice Immigration Courts, U.S. Citizenship
ICC Moot Court Competition accomplished.” A client from Trinidad & Tobago had been ordered removed by an and Immigration Services Field Offices, and asylum officers.
CWRU’s ICC Moot Court team has also “Rather than distracting from the rigors of immigration judge in Detroit; the client, rendered homeless due to
Vis International Arbitration Moot first year, we find the moot court experience serious issues with sexual abuse, had failed to appear for a hearing. “Our students are having an impact on their client’s lives and they are
proven to be a perennial winner. After
making it to the semifinals of the Americas For the third time in four years, CWRU makes the 1Ls better students in the The CWRU team of then-third-year law students—Charlee Thomas, developing a marketable skill in gaining employment in the field,” said
Regional Competition three of the past four took home a best oralist award at the classroom,” said Dean Michael Scharf, who Courtney Koski, Mrinali Sethi and Emma Wilson—got her case Cuic. Armed with that experience, Cuic’s students have gone on to
years, the team made it to the final round Vis International Arbitration Moot Court serves as coach of the Jessup team. “And reopened and the venue changed to Cleveland. After the students careers in immigration law at private law firms, non profits, and in the
this year, coming in second overall. That competition hosted in Vienna, Austria. The they have a track record of excelling in filed briefs and argued at the deportation hearing, the immigration government.
earned CWRU its first berth in the Global award is given to the top 40 students out of the international competitions as 1Ls and court granted their client’s application for permanent residency. The
Rounds, organized by the International Bar more than 1,000 who competed, representing improving as 2Ls and 3Ls.” government waived appeal, ending her eight-year court battle. For Cuic, the power of immigration is woven into his life story—and
Association and Leiden University in The 380 universities. As a warm-up, the team that of all Americans. “Immigration is part of our country’s fabric, and
Hague. There, the team advanced all the competed in the Swiss Chambers Arbitration In addition, Scharf said, “They get great Ranked sixth in the nation in practical training by PreLaw magazine we wouldn’t be what we are today if it weren’t for the immigration
way to the quarterfinals, and won a Best Institution pre-moot, where a CWRU team mentoring: The international law teams are in 2021, CWRU has nine clinics. Under the law school’s capstone of our past,” Cuic said. “Even if your family has been in the U.S. for
Brief Award. member placed third as an individual oralist coached by some of our most committed program, every third-year student either undertakes a semester-long generations, your story was shaped by immigration, too. The cliche of
out of a field of more than 100 competitors. full-time and adjunct professors.” clinic or externship to gain hands-on experience. America being a melting pot really is true.”
16 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 17
OUR INTERNATIONAL LAW FACULTY
students and foreign legal professionals. Before
Cox Center co-director completes
joining the School of Law in 2019, she practiced
immigration law in private practice.
At Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 33 individuals teach courses related to
Avidan Y. Cover
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic
new book on trade deals
Affairs; Director, Institute for Global Security
A new book by Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of
international law. Few law schools in the country have as many faculty members with expertise in Law and Policy (teaches International Law and
Business Law and co-director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law
International Human Rights Law)
the field or offer as many specialized courses in the area. Learn more about them. Avidan Cover previously Center, and Mustafa Durmus (LAW ’16, ’19) now an assistant professor at
served as senior counsel in Turkey’s Muş Alparslan University, will be released later this year.
Human Rights First’s U.S.
Michael Scharf Juscelino Filgueiras Colares past 15 years. He has worked in more than 40 Law & Security Program. Restructuring Trade Agreements: The Legal and Transactional Reworking
Co-Dean, Case Western Reserve University Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business countries and has represented clients— This past year, Cover and his of Bad Trade Deals (Wolters Kluwer) uses the European Union-Turkey
School of Law; Joseph C. Hostetler — Law and Professor of Political Science; Co- including 12 sovereign nations and numerous students submitted
trade relationship as a primary case study to provide a practical
BakerHostetler Professor of Law (teaches Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law foreign investors—in some 100 international complaints to the United
commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Nations Special Procedures framework for identifying trade agreements that are ripe for renegotiation—and how
Fundamentals of International Law and the Center (teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws,
concerning United States local police such renegotiations might take place.
Journal of International Law seminar, and Trade Law, and Regulatory Law courses)
coaches the Jessup Moot Court team) Before joining the CWRU Danielle Asaad departments mistreatment of medics at
Formerly Attorney Adviser faculty, Juscelino Colares Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International anti-police brutality protests (see p. 8) and the
for United Nations Affairs at clerked for the Hon. Business Transactions) Chinese government’s arbitrary arrests and
the U.S. Department of State, Jean-Louis Debré, chief A partner in the Global detention of Uyghur citizens. Gabriele Gagliani Richard Gordon
Michael Scharf served as justice of France’s Corporate Practice of Squire Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International Professor of Law, Associate Director of the
head of the International Constitutional Court Patton Boggs law firm, Aleksandar Cuic Intellectual Property Law) Frederick K. Cox International Law Center,
Law Program at Case (2008-09 term) and practiced Danielle Asaad represents Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of A lecturer at Bocconi Founding Director of the Financial Integrity
Western Reserve University at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in private equity sponsors and the Immigration Clinic (teaches Immigration University in Milan, Gabriele Institute (teaches International Tax Law,
School of Law for a dozen Washington, D.C., where he litigated trade cases corporate clients in connection Law Clinic and Immigration Law II: Asylum & Gagliani has held visiting numerous courses in the Master of Arts in
years before becoming dean in 2013. He is the before federal agencies, federal courts, and with acquisitions, minority Refugee Law) positions at the University of Financial Integrity program)
co-founder and managing director of the Public NAFTA panels. Colares has served as chair of investments, divestitures, Aleksandar Cuic is a partner Poitiers in France, the British Prior to joining CWRU’s
International Law & Policy Group, the author of the University Faculty Senate and associate joint ventures, financings, restructurings and at Robert Brown LLC, where Institute of International and faculty in 2005, Richard
20 books, and is ranked as among the most dean for Global Legal Studies. A native of Brazil other international business matters. he oversees the firm’s Comparative Law in the Gordon practiced
cited international law professors in the United and naturalized citizen of the United States, litigation practice group. United Kingdom, and at international tax law in
States, according to the Sisk study. In 2020, he Colares has been appointed by the Office of the Michael Benza During his legal career, he Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt. He is Washington, D.C., and later
was selected as president-elect of the American United States Trade Representative (USTR) to Senior Lecturer in Law, Associate Director of has represented individuals the chair of the European Intellectual Property served as deputy director of
Branch of the International Law Association. serve on the U.S. Roster of North American Free the Institute for Financial Integrity (teaches across the United States in Teachers’ Network Working Group on Teaching the Harvard International
Trade Agreement (Chapter Nineteen) Panelists International Death Penalty Seminar and more than 40 immigration IP and International Economic Law. Tax Program. After leaving
Steve Petras since 2013. This spring, USTR appointed him to coaches the ICC Moot Court team) courts and Homeland Security offices. He is a Harvard, Gordon joined the staff of the
Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law the first U.S. Roster of United States-Mexico- An expert in criminal law who frequent speaker at continuing legal education Jonathan Gordon International Monetary Fund, where he spent 14
Center; U.S. Director, Canada-United States Canada Trade Agreement Panelists. For the last has argued before the U.S. seminars, bar associations and community/ Professor of Law; Director, Foreign Graduate years as senior counsel, senior financial expert
Law Institute (teaches International Business six years, Colares has organized a series of Trade Supreme Court, Michael religious groups. He has been selected yearly Legal Studies SJD Program (teaches the First- and senior economist. Following the attacks of
Transactions) Law Fall Updates, a practitioner-oriented Benza coaches our ICC Moot for The Best Lawyers in America as well as Year and Advanced SJD Seminars, Professional Sept. 11, 2001, Gordon co-led the IMF and World
Steve Petras practiced gathering of leading trade lawyers, federal Court team, whose members Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of Responsibility, and several courses in the joint Bank’s involvement in anti-money laundering
international business judges, and trade agency officials. Winner of the won the best speaker award immigration law. program with SWUPL) and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/
transactions as a partner in 2018 Faculty Research Award, Colares is the in the national competition in Jonathan Gordon, a graduate CFT). He serves as a consultant on AML/CFT to
the Business Practice Group author of more than 35 articles and book 2015 and 2016, won the best Shannon E. French of Columbia Law School, a number of countries.
of BakerHostetler LLP prior chapters, and a book, titled Restructuring Trade brief award in 2017, and reached the semifinals in Inamori Professor in Ethics, Associate Professor joined the CWRU School of
to retiring at the end of 2018. Agreements (Wolters Kluwer 2021; see sidebar). 2018 and the finals in 2021. In 2021, the team of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and Director of Law faculty after serving as Brian Gran
He has served as president advanced to the International Rounds, where the Inamori International Center for Ethics and a trial attorney with the U.S. Professor of Sociology, Applied Social Sciences,
of the Greater Cleveland Stephen Anway they made it to the quarterfinals and received a Excellence (teaches War and Morality) Equal Employment and Law (teaches International Children’s Rights)
International Lawyers Group, chair of the Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International best brief award (see p. 16). Benza teaches Shannon French, PhD, taught Opportunity Commission. As Research by Brian Gran, PhD,
International Section of the Cleveland Arbitration) courses in our Master of Arts in Financial at the U.S. Naval Academy at director of the law school’s JD, concentrates on human
Metropolitan Bar Association, chair of the Board Stephen Anway is a partner Integrity program and at Southwest University of Annapolis before joining SJD Program, Gordon teaches the First-Year and rights. He is the author of
of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, vice and global co-chair of the Politics and Law in Chongqing, China, as part of CWRU’s faculty in 2008. She Advanced SJD Seminar classes as well as the book Sociology of
chair of the World Affairs Councils of America, world-ranked International the law school’s joint LLM Degree program. is a tenured member of the Professional Responsibility. He also serves as Children’s Rights and
and president of the Cleveland World Trade Dispute Resolution Practice university’s Department of co-chair of the Legal Writing Institute’s Global co-directs the International
Association, and is now chair of the Board of Group at Squire Patton Jaclyn Celebrezze Philosophy with a secondary Legal Writing Skills Committee. Gordon has Survey of Human Rights.
Directors of the Council of the Great Lakes Boggs, which was named Instructor and International LLM Program appointment in the law presented at numerous national and With support of the National
Region and a director of the Cleveland Council on International Arbitration Fellow (teaches U.S. Legal Writing and Foreign school. French’s primary expertise is in the area international conferences and has taught Science Foundation, Swiss NSF, and Fulbright
World Affairs. Group of the Year by Law360 Graduate Seminar to LLM students) of military ethics, and her acclaimed book, The several courses to LLM students in Chongqing, Commission, he is completing a study of
in 2020. In that role, he leads a team of more Jaclyn Celebrezze teaches Code of the Warrior, features a forward by the China, as part of the law school’s partnership independent children’s rights institutions. Gran
than 140 lawyers across 25 offices in North U.S. Legal Writing and late Sen. John McCain. with Southwest University of Politics and Law. is on leave as a Jefferson Science Fellow of the
America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East Foreign Graduate Seminar in National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Asia Pacific. Anway acts as lead counsel and the LLM program. She also and Medicine, appointed to the U.S. State
as an arbitrator, and he has represented the regularly teaches in the Department.
winning party in many of the largest Summer Language and Law
international arbitrations in the world over the Institute for incoming LLM Continued on page 20
18 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 19News of our International Law Faculty Continued from page 19
Sharona Hoffman Kenneth F. Ledford co-coach of the law school’s Vis International Gregory P. Noone Canada-United States law and policy issues, Steven G. Stransky
Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Associate Professor of History and Law (teaches Arbitration Moot Court team and teaches in the Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International including “The Arctic Ice Melt: Emerging Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Foreign
Bioethics, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine European Legal History and European Union Law) joint LLM Program in China. Humanitarian Law) Resources, Emerging Issues,” and “Cruising the Affairs and National Security Law)
Center (teaches Health Care and Human Rights) Kenneth Ledford, PhD, JD, Gregory P. Noone, PhD, JD, is Great Lakes: A Report on the United States and Steven Stransky joined
Sharona Hoffman, SJD, LLM, writes about private James Moroney the director of the Fairmont Canadian Regulations for the Commercial Cruise CWRU School of Law in 2018.
JD, has published over 60 practitioners and judges in Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Counter- State University National Industry on the Great Lakes.” He is a partner and vice chair
articles and has lectured Prussia during the German Terrorism Law) Security and Intelligence of the Data Privacy and
nationally and internationally Second Empire and Weimar James Moroney joined the Program and a professor of Cassandra Burke Robertson Cybersecurity Practice Group
on civil rights and health law Republic, exploring the CWRU faculty in 2017. He is political science and law. John Deaver Drinko—Baker & Hostetler at Thompson Hine LLP. Prior
topics. She has also published contours and limits of the now engaged in the private Noone is a retired United Professor of Law and Director of the Center to joining Thompson Hine,
two books—Aging with a rule of law. He serves as practice of law, in the areas States Navy captain and has for Professional Ethics (teaches Transnational Stransky served for more
Plan: How a Little Thought chair of Case Western Reserve’s Department of of white collar criminal served as the commanding officer of the Navy Litigation) than 10 years in the federal government,
Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow History, and as parliamentarian of the Council of defense and taxpayer JAG International and Operational Law reserve Prior to joining the CWRU including at the U.S. State Department and the
(Praeger, 2015) and Electronic Health Records the American Historical Association. He also representation. Moroney unit, as the commanding officer of the DIILS faculty in 2007, Cassandra U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In
and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy (Cambridge continues to serve on the Board of Editors of the recently retired after a reserve unit, as well as the director of the Burke Robertson clerked for addition, Stransky served on the President’s
University Press, 2016). She is an elected member Law and History Review, published by 30-year career as an assistant U.S. Attorney Department of Defense’s Periodic Review the Texas Supreme Court and National Security Council, where he provided
of the prestigious American Law Institute. Cambridge University Press. (AUSA) in the Northern District of Ohio. During Secretariat. Noone is the co-author of the widely served as assistant solicitor legal and policy advice to White House officials
that career, he served as a counterterrorism used textbook International Law and Armed general in the Office of the on developing and coordinating policies and
James Johnson Cathy Lesser Mansfield prosecutor, chief of the National Security Unit Conflict (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer Publishing, 2nd Texas Attorney General. Her programs with respect to homeland security,
Adjunct Professor of Law, Director of the Henry Senior Instructor in Law; Executive Director, for the Northern District of Ohio, and as national edition, 2019). Since 2020, he has been executive scholarship on citizenship, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity.
King War Crimes Research Office (teaches Master of Arts in Financial Integrity Program security coordinator for all 94 U.S. Attorney’s director of the Public International Law & Policy due process, and transnational litigation has
International Law Research Lab, Human Rights, (teaches consumer, payments, and commercial Offices at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. appeared in numerous journals, including the Jack Turner II
National Security Law, and International law courses, as well as Holocaust and the Law) at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, and Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Foreign
Criminal Law) Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a D.C. As an AUSA, he prosecuted a wide variety of Douglas Pilawa Vanderbilt Law Review. She has recently been Graduate Legal Studies LLM Program (teaches
James C. Johnson serves as frequent lecturer on the white collar cases—including frauds in the areas Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International reappointed as one of Ohio’s representatives to Contract Law and Scholarly Legal Writing to LLM
the chief prosecutor of the Holocaust and is a of securities, financial institutions, corporations, Arbitration) the Uniform Law Commission. students)
Residual Special Court for Distinguished Fellow in money laundering, and taxes—in addition to After several years working Jack Turner has taught U.S.
Sierra Leone, appointed to Holocaust and the Law at national security cases. in global supply chain and Rumu Sarkar Scholarly Legal Writing and
the position by the UN Chicago-Kent College of Law. marketing and sales at a Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International U.S. Contract Law to foreign
Secretary-General in 2019. She is the composer and Dale A. Nance Fortune 500 company, Development Law) lawyers in the LLM program
Prior to that, he served as librettist of The Sparks Fly Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Douglas Pilawa obtained his Rumu Sarkar, PhD, JD, LLM, for the past eight years. He
chief of prosecutions for the Upward, a Holocaust-themed opera, and the Weatherhead Professor of Law (teaches Conflict JD from Case Western is general counsel to also teaches research and
Special Court for Sierra Leone, supervising founder and executive director of The Sparks Fly of Laws, Law of Archeological Artifacts) Reserve University School of Millennium Partners, an writing to our first-year SJD
multiple trial teams, including the team that Upward Foundation, a nonprofit organization In the wake of the Law and his Master 2 in international development students working on their
prosecuted former Liberian President Charles dedicated to educating people about the publication of Dale Nance’s Droit européen et international des affaires from consulting group located in doctoral theses. Turner directs the Summer
Taylor. Students under his supervision prepare Holocaust, genocide and tolerance. monograph, The Burdens of Université Paris-Dauphine. He is an associate in Charlottesville, Virginia. She Language and Law Institute for incoming LLM
research memoranda for international criminal Proof: Discriminatory Power, the International Dispute Resolution practice has served as senior legal students and foreign legal professionals. He
tribunals and organizations. Johnson also Stacy Cozart Martin Weight of Evidence, and group at Squire Patton Boggs, doing both advisor to CALIBRE Systems, also regularly teaches in China through our
organizes the annual International Humanitarian Adjunct Professor of Law Tenacity of Belief (Cambridge international commercial arbitration and a defense consulting group based in Alexandria, partnership with one of China’s top universities.
Dialog Conference in Chautauqua, New York, (teaches Immigration Law) University Press, 2016) he international investment arbitration. Having Virginia; general counsel for the 2005 Defense
which is co-sponsored by the Cox Center. Stacy Cozart Martin has has applied his theory to twice won Best Speaker awards as a student at Base Closure and Realignment Commission; Andrew A. Zashin
focused her practice on unsolved problems in private international law. the Vis Competition in Vienna, Pilawa serves as general counsel for the Overseas Basing Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Family Law
Raymond Ku business and family-based Most recently, he published “Choice of Law for co-coach of the Vis International Arbitration Commission; assistant general counsel for and International Family Law)
Professor of Law, Director of the Center for immigration since 2000. Ohio Burdens of Proof,” 46 North Carolina Journal of Moot Court team. administrative affairs for the Overseas Private Andrew Zashin is co-
Cyberspace Law & Policy (teaches Cyberlaw) Super Lawyers magazine International Law 235 (2021). Investment Corp.; and staff attorney with the managing partner of the
Raymond Ku has served as has named her a “Rising Ted Parran III Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Agency Ohio firm Zashin & Rich,
associate dean for academic Star” annually from 2006 to Craig Nard Adjunct Professor of Law, Managing Director for International Development. where he practices family
affairs and co-director of 2013 and she has a “Superb Galen J. Roush Professor of Law, Director of of the Canada-United States Law Institute and international family law.
CWRU’s Center for Law, 10.0” rating from Avvo. She served as president the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology (supervises the Canada-United States Law Maya Simek Zashin has published several
Technology and the Arts. of the Ohio Chapter of the American Immigration & the Arts (teaches International Intellectual Journal) Lecturer in Law, Director of the Human law journal articles, lectured
Before joining our faculty, Ku Lawyers Association from 2015 to 2017. Property Law) Ted Parran serves as an Trafficking Clinic (teaches the Human Trafficking widely and earned numerous
clerked for the Hon. Timothy An expert in international assistant chief counsel with Clinic) awards. Ranked the top family law attorney in
K. Lewis, United States Court Kathryn Mercer intellectual property law, in the Department of Maya Simek, JD, MSSA, Cleveland, rated as a Super Lawyer, and
of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practiced Professor of Law (teaches Alternative Dispute 2017, Craig Nard was a Homeland Security, where he LISW-S, is a clinical law consistently making the list of Top 100 Lawyers
constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust Resolution, Mediation Representation, and VIS visiting lecturer at the practices international, professor and director of in Ohio, Worth Magazine has named Zashin one
law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and First International Arbitration Practicum) University of Strasbourg criminal and administrative Case Western Reserve’s of the Top 100 Lawyers in America. During the
Amendment/media and intellectual property law Kathryn Mercer, PhD, MSSA, Centre d’Etudes law. He has worked in U.S. Human Trafficking Clinic, past 18 years at CWRU, Zashin has taught every
with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch LLP, both in JD, is a frequent lecturer at Internationales de la and international corporate supported by a grant from family law offering. He has practiced at every
Washington, D.C. He has taught at Cornell Law international conferences, Propriete Intellectuale. He investigations and compliance, for the the Ohio Attorney General’s level of court in Ohio as well as in federal courts,
School, Seton Hall University School of Law, and has taught in China at recently served as a senior lecturer at the World International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Office. She also serves as the including the Supreme Court of the United
Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and St. Thomas our various partner schools. Intellectual Property Organization’s Master of (appeals chambers) and as an assistant legal director at Equality Ohio, where she States. He recently participated with the Cox
University School of Law. Ku is the lead author of Her recent lectures have Laws program in Torino, Italy. prosecutor for the State of Ohio. He has also developed and is now supervising a state-wide Center on an Amicus Brief filed with the U.S.
the first casebook devoted exclusively to the focused on “Immigration and authored legal scholarship on comparative legal clinic for the LGBTQ community. Supreme Court.
study of cyberspace law. Child Welfare.” She is
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