Professor Milena Sterio participated as a guest expert in the Lawyering Peace Hot Takes podcast in an episode that focused on “The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (2011): Justice on Hold.” The episode is available for streaming here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyering-peace-hot-takes/id1755218391?i=1000670435677

In this episode, Professor Paul Williams (American University Washington College of Law) and Professor Sterio distill and discuss the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, a peace agreement signed between the then government of Sudan and various Darfur-based rebel groups. 

Professor Milena Sterio presented on September 26 at a Workshop on Teaching International Humanitarian Law, which was organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and which took place at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  Professor Sterio presented on the topic of incorporating international humanitarian law into her international law courses.  

Professor Karin Mike was appointed to peer editor for the Legal Communication and Rhetoric Journal (JALWD).

She also was appointed to LWI Institutional Memory Project – an effort to ensure the history of the discipline of Legal Writing is made available online.

Professor Mika presented at two events: (1) the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, held in Indianapolis, Indiana from July 17th-20th. Her topic was, “Adapting Legal Writing Education for the Online Environment: Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons, The presentation discussed how Legal Writing can be taught online, the potential international outreach of online JD programs, and how American law schools with online JD programs must be attuned to the needs (including shifting time zones and even politics) of any students that may be entering an online program.

And (2) the Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, held in Seattle, Washington from Sept. 13th-24th. My topic was, “From Peripheral to Pivotal: The Role of Legal Writing in the Modern Law School Misson.” The presentation discussed how the importance of Legal Writing and skills teaching has changed during the past four decades and discussed how Legal Writing necessarily takes a central role in developing material for online JD programs.

Associate Dean Brian Ray and Adjunct Professor Spence Witten represented the CSU Law Center for Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection at the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s (GCP) annual Best of Tech Event. The Center is one of GCP’s Tech Network Leaders and participated in the inaugural Tech Network Showcase. The event also featured CSU Law Alumnus Steve Potash, President and CEO of Overdrive in the Tech Unicorn Conversation.

On September 17, the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School invited Prof. Steven Chien to give a talk on Taiwan’s citizen judges. Prof. Chien discusses the role of Taiwanese prosecutors working within trial units, filling a gap in current literature by illuminating the dramatic changes in Taiwan’s criminal trials, specifically the fundamental reshaping of the prosecutor’s role and institutional culture. The talk explores the significant transformation within Taiwan’s criminal legal sphere with the implementation of the Citizen Judge Act in January 2023. Drawing on his ethnographic research, Prof. Chien introduces a new theoretical framework that examines the “silent influence” of American criminal justice on Taiwan’s legal profession, demonstrating how foreign law can shape legal practices in nuanced ways. Prof. Valerie Hans (Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law) served as the discussant. Prof. Yun-chien Chang (Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law) moderated.

Event Link:

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Professor Milena Sterio delivered an online lecture for Salem State University on the topic of “The International Criminal Court and the Application for Arrest Warrants Against Named Hamas and Israeli Leaders” on September 23.  Professor Sterio’s lecture was hosted by Salem State University’s Center on Holocaust and Genocide studies.  

On Sept. 23, Professor Doron Kalir was invited to speak at Kent State University about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The presentation – invited by KSU Jewish Faculty, Staff, and Friends Association, KSU Hillel, and KSU Students Supporting Israel (SSI) – discussed the law of war, the Geneva Convention and its application to the conflict, and the recent decisions by the ICJ. It also presented several viewpoints – both supporting and opposing several claims made by Israel and the Palestinians in international forums.  

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson spoke as part of the luncheon plenary program at the Ohio Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at The Ohio State University in Columbus on September 19, 2025.  The conference was co-hosted by the Ohio Environmental Council and the Environmental Professionals Network.  The plenary program was entitled “The Role of Judges in Environmental Law and the Procedure of Standing.”  Other participants in the plenary program were Trent Dougherty, a partner at HubayDougherty, Miranda Leppa, Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Case, and Chris Tavenor, General Council at the Ohio Environmental Council.

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

Professor Milena Sterio participated as an expert and presenter at the International Humanitarian Law Roundtable in Chautauqua, New York, from August 25-27. Professor Sterio delivered introductory remarks to the Katherine B. Fite lecture (this year’s lecturer was Professor and Judge Meg deGuzman, Temple Law School and the International Residual Mechanism for Yugoslavia and Rwanda). In addition, Professor Sterio moderated a discussion group on the topic of “Crimes Against Children.” The International Humanitarian Law Roundtable is a prestigious conference which has been taking place every year since 2007 in Chautauqua, New York; the conference assembles academics in International Criminal Law as well as prosecutors from various international criminal tribunals. This year, notable prosecutors present included Andrew Cayley and Brenda Hollis from the International Criminal Court; they work on the Ukraine and Palestine investigations respectively.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson testified at an Ohio Power Siting Board hearing pertaining to the proposed Frasier Solar energy development project. The hearing concerned whether the OPSB should grant Frasier a Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience, a necessary precursor to obtaining a permit to construct the facility. Frasier Solar has proposed an industrial scale 120-megawatt solar energy project in Knox County, Ohio. Knox Smart Development, among others, opposes the project. To prepare Robertson for testimony, Environmental Law Fellow Mark Bank, a second-year law student, worked through all of the citizen testimony from three separate public hearings on this matter. Bank and Robertson sorted all of the citizen comments made in opposition to the project into four categories – those that were contrary to fact, those for which the concerns were mitigated through permit conditions or applicant concessions, those that were statements of opinion, and those for which the record neither supported nor disproved the statement. The purpose was to determine whether the citizen concerns amounted to “prominent, one-sided, and compelling opposition to the project – the OPSB’s stated standard for denying the requested certificate. Robertson and Bank found that although comments in opposition outnumber comments in support of the project by more than a 2 to 1 margin, only a few of the comments were not factually incorrect, mitigated, or statements of opinion. Robertson and Bank conducted this research in cooperation with the Ohio Environmental Council and Robertson’s testimony supported the OEC’s efforts to assist Frasier Solar’s effort to increase Ohio’s solar energy production capacity.

Prof. Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law (CSU|Law) and Professor of Environmental Studies (Levin College).