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Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, improves people’s lives through preeminent research, education and creative endeavor: innovation and discovery in scholarship that capitalizes on the power of collaboration; learning that is active, creative and continuous; and promotion of an inclusive culture of global citizenship.

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  • Consequences of Kampala: The U.S. and the International Criminal Court

    Thu, Nov 11, 2010
    Donald Ferencz, executive director of the Planethood Foundation, and Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Michael Scharf participated as NGO (non-governmental organization) delegates at the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda in June 2010. At the Review Conference in Kampala, the 3,000 delegates agreed to a complicated formula to amend the International Court's Statute to add the crime of aggression to its jurisdiction. The formula had its origins in part in a 2008 Experts Meeting that Mr. Ferencz and Prof. Scharf co-sponsored at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, "The ICC and the Crime of Aggression." Mr. Ferencz and Prof. Scharf explain the negotiating history and meaning of the "Crime of Aggression" Amendment to the ICC's Statute, and describe its likely consequences for the United States and its allies.
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    Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" and the Genres of Authenticity

    Fri, Oct 22, 2010
    In the early 21st century, memoir culture, celebrity culture, and U.S. political culture have converged as Presidential wannabes publish memoir after memoir, thereby converting "a life" into money, message, and conduit for voter attachment. Hillary Clinton's best-selling autobiography *Living History* (2003) implicitly announced her Presidential bid, mobilizing personal storytelling to convince readers that this Senator and feminist First Lady could be President. Dr. Smith explores how the genres of Clinton's *Living History* produce, or not, the authenticity effect of a "real Hillary," the convincing persona that is always at stake in the political field; and how both the narrating and narrated "Hillarys" do and undo the gendered idioms of political power. Photo: Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA (Senator Clinton @ Hampton, NH) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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  • Lawfare! Introduction

    Fri, Sep 10, 2010
    This program is the first major academic symposia dedicated to exploring the concept of “Lawfare.” Traditionally “Lawfare” was defined as “a strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.” But lately, commentators and governments have applied the concept to International Criminal Tribunals, the defense counsel’s tactics challenging the detention of al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo Bay and, as indicated in the quote above, to the controversial Goldstone Commission Report. This Conference and Experts Meeting, features two-dozen leading academics, practitioners, and former government officials from all sides of the political spectrum, that examine the usefulness and appropriate application of the “Lawfare” concept.
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  • Historical and Semiotic Origins of “Lawfare”

    Fri, Sep 10, 2010
    This program is the first major academic symposia dedicated to exploring the concept of “Lawfare.” Traditionally “Lawfare” was defined as “a strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.” But lately, commentators and governments have applied the concept to International Criminal Tribunals, the defense counsel’s tactics challenging the detention of al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo Bay and, as indicated in the quote above, to the controversial Goldstone Commission Report. This Conference and Experts Meeting, features two-dozen leading academics, practitioners, and former government officials from all sides of the political spectrum, that examine the usefulness and appropriate application of the “Lawfare” concept.
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  • Is “Lawfare” a Useful Term?

    Fri, Sep 10, 2010
    This program is the first major academic symposia dedicated to exploring the concept of “Lawfare.” Traditionally “Lawfare” was defined as “a strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.” But lately, commentators and governments have applied the concept to International Criminal Tribunals, the defense counsel’s tactics challenging the detention of al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo Bay and, as indicated in the quote above, to the controversial Goldstone Commission Report. This Conference and Experts Meeting, features two-dozen leading academics, practitioners, and former government officials from all sides of the political spectrum, that examine the usefulness and appropriate application of the “Lawfare” concept.
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    Julian Bond: Under Color of Law

    Thu, Nov 11, 2010
    Julian Bond, a world-renowned member of the U.S. civil rights movement, speaks on the role the law has played in both encouraging and thwarting that movement, beginning with the seminal Supreme Court decision of *Brown v. Board of Education* (1954). While Brown in many ways gave life to the civil rights movement in this country, Mr. Bond discusses how legal developments continuing to the present day have served at times in fact to discourage progress in that movement. His presentation includes his personal involvement with legal developments in the civil rights movement and his own case involving his seat in the Georgia legislature--a case that ultimately ended up before the Supreme Court.
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  • Lawfare and War Crimes Tribunals (Part 1)

    Fri, Sep 10, 2010
    This program is the first major academic symposia dedicated to exploring the concept of “Lawfare.” Traditionally “Lawfare” was defined as “a strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.” But lately, commentators and governments have applied the concept to International Criminal Tribunals, the defense counsel’s tactics challenging the detention of al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo Bay and, as indicated in the quote above, to the controversial Goldstone Commission Report. This Conference and Experts Meeting, features two-dozen leading academics, practitioners, and former government officials from all sides of the political spectrum, that examine the usefulness and appropriate application of the “Lawfare” concept.
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  • Government's Ability to Compel and Restrict Speech: Introduction

    Fri, Nov 19, 2010
    The 2010-2011 Case Western Reserve University Law Review Symposium addresses limits on government speech and the government's ability to claim speech as its own in both restricting and compelling speech. Panels examine 1) the intersection between government speech and the establishment clause (with a focus on the implications of *Salazar v. Buono*); 2) the extent to which the government can control school curricula and restrict the work of law school clinics; 3) the extent to which the government can compel speech by denominating the speech as its own.
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  • Government’s Ability to Compel and Restrict Speech: Keynote

    Fri, Nov 19, 2010
    The 2010-2011 Case Western Reserve University Law Review Symposium addresses limits on government speech and the government's ability to claim speech as its own in both restricting and compelling speech. Panels examine 1) the intersection between government speech and the establishment clause (with a focus on the implications of *Salazar v. Buono*); 2) the extent to which the government can control school curricula and restrict the work of law school clinics; 3) the extent to which the government can compel speech by denominating the speech as its own.
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  • Government Speech and the Establishment Clause (Part 1)

    Fri, Nov 19, 2010
    The 2010-2011 Case Western Reserve University Law Review Symposium addresses limits on government speech and the government's ability to claim speech as its own in both restricting and compelling speech. Panel two examines the extent to which the government can control school curricula and restrict the work of law school clinics. This is the 2nd panel for Case Western Reserve University's conference, Government's Ability to Compel and Restrict Speech.
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