Professor Karin Mika presented at the Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, held at the University of Oregon on October 7-8. Her presentation was titled, The Concept of Lists in Legal Drafting, and discussed structuring organized lists in drafting contracts, leases, and other legal documents that make the document more readable.  

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson attended the Vermont Environmental Legal Scholarship Colloquium on September 23 and 24 at Vermont Law and Graduate School in S. Royalton, Vermont.  The colloquium is designed to draw environmental law scholars from around the country to present and obtain feedback on works-in-progress.  Robertson presented Irrationalizing the Local Role in Energy Deveopment: Oil and Gas v Wind and Solar in Ohio.

Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Professor of Law at CM Law and Professor of Environmental Studies at the College of Education and Public Affairs.

Professor Brian Ray was quoted in the article “Cleveland Has Spent Millions on Police Cameras. Why Are the Locations a Secret?” published by the Marshall Project in Scene magazine. Ray and Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich advised on a report and recommendation from the Cleveland Community Police Commission urging the City to adopt a community oversight process for surveillance technologies to provide greater transparency and accountability over their use by police and civilian agencies.

Ray also is one of two faculty from Cleveland State and Case Western Reserve Universities’ Internet of Things Collaborative (IoTC) who plans to work on a privacy-protective solution for illegal dumping powered by artificial intelligence for the City of Cleveland recently approved by Cleveland City Council. Ray is a founding member of the IoTC, which has received over $3 million in funding from the Cleveland Foundation.