Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson serves as an Associate Editor on the ABA’s Probate and Property Magazine. She edited and assisted in the selection of all property-related articles in the March/April 2025 edition.
Here’s the Digital Edition of Probate & Property Hard copies are available in the library or on her office door.
Professor Sterio Interviewed by Fox 5
Professor Milena Sterio was interviewed live by Fox 5 on March 18, regarding the disappearance of a University of Pittsburgh student in the Dominican Republic earlier this month. Professor Sterio’s interview is available here: https://youtu.be/yh2_q2MFA_4?si=FHHGkB70fqI3oVfl
Professor Sterio Interviewed by NBC News for the Today Show
Professor Milena Sterio was interviewed by NBC News about the legal standards of pre-trial detention in the case of a U.S. citizen who has been named a person of interest in the Dominican Republic, related to the recent disappearance of a University of Pittsburgh student. A part of Professor’s Sterio’s interview was broadcast on March 18 during NBC’s Today Show. The interview portion broadcast on the Today Show is available here.
Associate Dean Ray Participates in Cambridge Cybersecurity Leaders Forum
Associate Dean Brian Ray participated in the 2025 Cambridge Cybersecurity Leaders Forum. The Forum is an annual meeting of senior corporate cybersecurity executives and a select group of specialist advisors. Participants include: CISOs, CSOs and CIOs from Fortune 500 companies and their in-house counsel, along with outside counsel, cybersecurity consultants and academics.
Limited to under 50 participants, the goal of the Forum is to provide an opportunity for everyone to share experiences and perspectives, and collectively ‘raise the water table’ on effective management in this field. The 2025 Forum featured a keynote discussion with former General David Petraeus and briefings by senior regulators and federal law enforcement.
Professor Sterio Participates in “Talking Foreign Policy” Radio Show
In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. With an effort to obtain a peace agreement now underway, will the perpetrators of these attacks be brought to justice? Where will they be tried? And what law will apply?
Professor Milena Sterio participated in an episode of the “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show, a co-production of CRWU School of Law and Cleveland’s NPR Station, WKSU 89.7 FM, which focused on prosecuting crimes against the environment in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The show was broadcast on Monday, March 3 at 9 a.m. and re-aired at 9 p.m., The show was hosted by CWRU Law Professor Michael Scharf, and it featured the following panelists, in addition to Professor Sterio: Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association; Dr Paul Williams, American University Washington College of Law; Professor Michael Kelly, Creighton University Law School. All of the panelists had been involved in the training of Ukrainian prosecutors and judges to try Russian environmental war crimes, which took place in Rzeszow, Poland. In October 2024.
Talking Foreign Policy is broadcast on Cleveland’s NPR Station, WKSU 89.7 FM in Cleveland, and its syndicates throughout Ohio. It is streamed worldwide from Ideastream Public Media. It is also available to listen to as a podcast anytime after it airs at this website.
Talking Foreign Policy has aired quarterly since 2012. Recent episodes of the program have addressed such topical issues as the Possibility of a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan, Foreign Policy and the 2024 Presidential Election, the Ukraine Conflict’s Endgame, Responding to Global Warming, the International Indictment of Vladimir Putin, and Lessons from the Afghanistan Fiasco.
Professor Robertson Quoted on Effect of Energy Project Public Hearings
Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson was interviewed for and quoted by Canary Media (formerly Energy News Now) in What an Ohio agrivoltaics project says about rural solar stereotypes. The article, in part, concerns the relative weight and value of negative (or positive) comments at public hearings and builds on the research Robertson did to support the Ohio Environmental Council before the Ohio Power Siting Board. You can find the article HERE
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.
Associate Dean Brian Ray Publishes AI Op Ed, Interviewed on TikTok Ban and Recent Cyber Attack
Professor Brian Ray co-authored an Op Ed in Crain’s Cleveland Business on the ways that Cleveland State University Faculty are incorporating AI into teaching and research. He also appeared on the National Public Radio program LAist to discuss legal and policy issues related to the TikTok ban and was quoted extensively in a news article discussing the recent cyber attack on several national grocery store chains owned by Ahold Delhaize.
Professor Debbie Hoffman Spearheads New Mortgage Banking Course
Professor Debbie Hoffman spearheaded the effort to bring FIN 493: Mortgage Origination and Processing to Cleveland State University in partnership with the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and major industry leaders, including Rocket Mortgage and Union Home Mortgage. Offered through the Monte Ahuja College of Business, it is the first accredited undergraduate course in the U.S. focused exclusively on residential mortgage lending. Professor Hoffman now leads the course as its instructor. More details can be found in the MBA’s press release and a recent HousingWire feature.
Professor Sterio Presents at AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco
Professor Milena Sterio presented at three different sessions at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. On January 8, Professor Sterio served as a discussant for one of the “new voices” papers at the National Security Law section’s New Voices in National Security Law panel. Professor Sterio is past section chair and currently serves on the section’s Executive Committee. In addition, Professor Sterio moderated International Law section’s panel on “Innovations in International Law Instructional Design” on January 11. Professor Sterio helped to plan this session; she is past chair of the International Law section and currently serves on its Executive Committee. Also on January 11, Professor Sterio participated in a Discussion Group on the topic of “Here’s My Idea: Incubator Roundtable (Scholarship).” Professor Sterio is past officer of the International Human Rights and the Women in Legal Education sections and currently serves on each section’s Executive Committee.
Professor Sterio Participates as Expert in Training of Kenyan Diplomats on Peace Negotiations and Mediation
Professor Sterio participated as an expert in the peace negotiations and mediation training for a cohort of Kenyan Foreign Ministry Affairs diplomats in Nairobi, Kenya, from January 20-24. The training program is financed by the U.S. Department of State; this was Professor Sterio’s third trip to Nairobi. The training focused on international law issues related to negotiating and mediating peace agreements.
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