Professor Brian Ray organized the third annual Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Conference and the Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s CyberOhio Business Summit.  Dubbed, “Two Days of Cyber” the events featured over 75 experts in cybersecurity law, policy and operations, including keynote addresses by former Congressman Mike Rogers and AG DeWine.  He also worked with the Cleveland State Law Review to organize the Blockchain Law & Technology Symposium, which brought over 30 national experts together to discuss blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, ICOs and the legal and regulatory issues they raise.  Ray moderated the closing panel on Diversity in Blockchain, a new national initiative launched last fall at MIT, and organized a workshop the day before the Symposium with Andrea Tinianow, the creator of the Delaware Blockchain Initiative, to discuss organizing a similar state blockchain initiative in Ohio.  Ray was invited to speak on behalf of the CWRU-CSU IoT Collaborative (IoTC) at several recent conferences, including Data Days CLE, where he spoke about data privacy and the recent controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica’s collection and use of Facebook data, and at an IoTC-sponsored OHTec event discussing the group’s work with industry partners in Northeast Ohio.  He also appeared on WKYC Channel 3 News commenting on a request by privacy rights organizations that the Federal Trade Commission investigate YouTube for knowingly collecting data from children in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. 

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has entered into a 3+3 agreement with Trine University in Angola, Indiana. Trine University becomes C|M’s sixth external 3+3 partner, joining Lake Erie College, the University of Findlay, Ursuline College, Notre Dame College, and Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania. In addition C|M has an internal 3+3 program with CSU undergraduate colleges.

Professor Kevin O’Neill has been in the top ten percent of authors on SSRN, per total number of downloads, during the months of January, February, March, and April 2018.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, appeared on a panel at the largest annual American antitrust gathering, the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law. The panel, entitled “Protecting Brand Identity on the Internet,” considered changes in U.S. and European law concerning e-commerce, with a special focus on a late 2017 decision of the European Court of Justice, entitled Coty GmbH v. Akzente Parfumerie GmbH.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, was invited to present at a meeting of the American University College of Law’s Business Law Faculty Workshop series. He spoke about his book “Apple, Antitrust, and Irony,” concerning the so-called Apple “eBooks” case of 2012-2013, a federal antitrust challenge to Apple and several publishing firms for fixing the price of eBooks. The workshop was moderated by the antitrust scholar Jonathan Baker of American University, who also provided a lengthy commentary on the manuscript. The book is forthcoming this fall from Harvard University Press.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post on Intlawgrrls, entitled “Syria and the Limits of International Law.”  In this post, available here, Professor Sterio discusses the current limitations of international law in providing a legal response to ongoing humanitarian crises, such as the one ongoing in Syria.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio moderated a panel at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. , on April 6.  Professor Sterio had helped organize the panel, which was sponsored by the ASIL Midwest Interest Group and entitled “Current Issues in the Clinical Practice of International Human Rights Law: Views from the Midwest.”  In addition, Professor Sterio presented a paper entitled “The Legacy of  Ad Hoc Tribunals” on April 7th, at a day-long workshop organized by the International Criminal Law Interest Group, in conjunction with the ASIL Annual Meeting.  Professor Sterio serves as co-chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group, and she was just elected co-chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio was elected Co-Chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law.  Professor Sterio will serve a three-year term as Co-Chair.  In addition, Professor Sterio is in her second year as co-chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law.

Professor Angelin Chang was selected by her alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, as one of the university’s women’s history month honoree.  To learn more about Professor Chang and her selection by JHU as a women’s history  month honoree, please see here.