Professor Milena Sterio was appointed to the American Branch of the International Law Association’s Study Group on Crimes Against Humanity.  The Study Group will work on finalizing the draft treaty on Crimes Against Humanity which is currently pending at the United Nations.  

Professor Milena Sterio’s article (co-authored with Professor Yvonne M. Dutton, Indiana University McKinney School of Law), Beyond Policy: Overcoming Challenges in Prosecuting Gender Persecution at the International Criminal Court, has been published by the Florida International University Law Review, 19 FIU L. Rev. 521 (2025).  The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.25148/lawrev.19.2.9.

Professor Milena Sterio delivered a lecture for participants of the Odessa Academy, a law school based in Ukraine, on the topic of “The Crime of Aggression under International Law” on May 4. 

Professor Milena Sterio participated as a panelist in an event organized by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA) in partnership with the Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival: Reconciliation, also in partnership with The Cleveland Orchestra on May 16. The festival “examines how reconciliation shapes relationships, societies, and cultures—highlighting its challenges, triumphs, and enduring relevance in a fractured world.”  More information about the event is available here.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson traveled to Las Vegas for the American Bar Association’s Real Property/Trusts and Estates National CLE Conference. Robertson spoke on and moderated a program “The Sometimes Irrational State Preemption of Local Land Use Decision-making: From Housing Density to Renewable Energy Development.” Other panelists include Matthew Eisenson, Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, and Nixon Peabody lawyers Karla Chafee and Bryan LeRoy. Robertson served on the program committee for the Land Use and Environment Committee of the RP/TE section and continues to serve as an Associate Editor of the section’s Probate and Property Magazine.
Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Professor of Law at the College of Law and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University.

Associate Dean Brian Ray participated in a panel at the Sedona Conference Working Group 11 meeting discussing a draft White Paper on reconciling the Colorado AI Act and the Colorado Privacy Act in the context of AI tools used in the employment context. Associate Dean Ray is a member of the White Paper drafting group.

Professor Milena Sterio was interviewed for a Fox 5 news story about the increased use of administrative arrests by the Department of Homeland Security in the Washington, D.C., area. The news story featuring Professor Sterio’s interview is available here.

Professor Debbie Hoffman was a guest on the IP Fridays podcast, hosted by Kenneth Suzan, in the episode “Bequeathing Bitcoin: What Happens to Bitcoin After Death?” She joined co-guest Anna Mouland to explore digital estate planning in the age of cryptocurrency, covering bitcoin’s nature as a bearer asset; custody strategies—from centralized and decentralized wallets to hot and cold storage; and estate-planning tools such as legacy contacts, multi-signature recovery schemes, and transfer-on-death solutions.

Professor Sterio has been appearing on a daily basis on the Fox – Washington DC news program at 3 pm, in order to provide updates about the ongoing legal proceedings in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who has been wrongly and mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump Administration.  A Fox news story with one of Professor Sterio’s interviews is available here: https://youtu.be/EBh32FZ6kgg?si=JTBmq6sacMqCoBAP

Professor Sterio delivered a presentation to the UCLA Armenian Pre-Law Society on April 11, on the topic of “States as Main Actors of International Law.”  Professor Sterio was invited to deliver this lecture to a cohort of UCLA undergraduate students, as a “teaser” and preview of what an International Law class would look like in law school.  

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson served as a Peer Reviewer for the 2025 Cycle 2 Fulbright Specialist Roster applicants. Robertson has served as a peer review for Fulbright for more than a decade. She evaluates applicants in both law and environmental studies.
Robertson is the Steve W. Percy Professor of Law at the College of Law, and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education.