Clinical Professor of Law Doron Kalir has been presenting to wide audiences on the upcoming Israeli election, and the likely indictment of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. On Friday, Feb. 15, he spoke before Case Western University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning audience, in an “East-Side Conversation” designed to mimic the venerable Friday Forum at the City Club. On Tuesday, March 19, he spoke before the “Sisterhood” at Park East Synagogue. On both occasions, professor Kalir was impressed by the level of knowledge of and interest in Israeli politics.

Professor Claire Robinson May presented Spinning Straw into Gold? The Challenge of Maintaining and Enhancing Legal Writing Programs Amid Institutional Austerity at the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Professor May has also contracted with Carolina Academic Press to contribute a chapter to the book, Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy to Enhance Teaching Across the Law School Curriculum, forthcoming in 2020.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio judges the semi-final and final rounds of the International Criminal Court Moot Court competition, which took place at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY, on March 16-17.  In addition, Professor Sterio gave a faculty talk at Pace Law School on the topic of “Women at International Criminal Tribunals.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s book, “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law,” which she co-edited with Dean and Professor Michael Scharf (CWRU School of Law), was published by Cambridge University Press.  In addition to co-editing this volume, Professor Sterio wrote a chapter entitled “The Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals: A Legacy of Human Rights’ Protection and Contribution to International Criminal Justice.”

Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich also contributed a chapter to this volume entitled “The Defense of Duress to Killing Innocents: Assessing the Mixed Legacy of the ICTY and the ICTR.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s new article, “Women at International Criminal Tribunals,” will be published by Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (University of Iowa Law School).  In this article, Professor Sterio discusses the under-representation of women as judges at international criminal tribunals, and how this affects such tribunals’ legitimacy.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, spoke with a number of major media outlets recently concerning the many antitrust issues in the news.

He spoke with Yahoo Finance and the blog E-Commerce Times  about Elizabeth Warren’s  new “platform” antitrust proposal, with Bloomberg about state Attorney General interest in challenge to tech platforms, and the popular technology blog Ars Technica about the much discussed antitrust complaint that Spotify just filed in Europe against Apple.

He spoke with the subscription services Global Competition Review about reports that Amazon has voluntarily given up “most-favored-nation” agreements with suppliers, and Policy and Regulatory Report about an FTC merger investigation apparently heating up over Boston Scientific’s acquisition of a rival maker of cancer treatment technologies called BTG.

On Friday, March 8, 2018, the Cleveland Jewish News published an article dealing with the recent criminal charges leveled at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Israel’s Attorney General. The article, which featured several Israeli experts, included several quotes from professor Doron Kalir. It can be found here.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post entitled “ICJ Advisory Opinion in the Chagos Archipelago Case: Self-Determination Re-Examined?” on Intlawgrrls.  In this post, Professor Sterio discusses the International Court of Justice’s recent advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.

The Chagos Islands were part of the colony of Mauritius, administered by the United Kingdom.  Prior to Mauritian independence in 1968, the U.K. separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, in order to allow the U.S. to build a military base on Diego Garcia (one of the Chagossian islands).  The U.K. forcefully relocated inhabitants of Diego Garcia, so that the U.S. could proceed to build its military base.  In the ICJ advisory opinion discussed in this blog post, the world court held that the decolonization of Mauritius was not lawfully completed, and that the U.K. was under the obligation to end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia (the site of the U.S. military base).  The case is big loss to the U.K. and may have an impact on the U.S. (the U.S. may be required to relocate its military base).

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, appeared on an episode of the popular new podcast Ipse Dixit to discuss his book “United States v. Apple: Competition in America,” forthcoming later this year from Harvard University Press.

The Ipse Dixit series has rapidly grown, having gained more than 30,000 followers since its launch just a few months ago, and having featured some one hundred interviews with some of the country’s most prominent legal scholars.

He also appeared on an episode of an Ohio history series called Ohio v. The World. The show is produced by Cleveland-Marshall graduate Alex Hastie. Sagers appeared in an episode called “Ohio v. Wealth,”to discuss the famous antitrust prosecution of the early 20th century against the Standard Oil corporation, which was formed and had deep roots in Ohio.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, spoke this week for a story in Corporate Counsel about the recent decision of Gap, Inc. to spin off it’s most successful brand, Old Navy, and to continue its Banana Republic and several other brands as a separate corporate entity.

He also spoke with the service S&P Global Market Intelligence about the news that the White House may have pressured challenge to the merger or AT&T and Time Warner, for political reasons unrelated to its legality.

Finally, he spoke with the subscription service FTC: Watch about recent set-backs in judicial decisions that will affect Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions.