Monday Morning Message 10.24.22 All Rise: A Festival of Film & Law

“You can't handle the truth....You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about …. you want me on that wall.” - Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson, in “A Few Good Men”

This week we are excited to debut our new film festival, All Rise: A Festival of Film and Law, co-sponsored by CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the CSU School of Film & Media Arts.

Watch this short video: Trailer: All Rise Film Festival  

Monday Morning Message 10.17.22 Carrying the Torch

“Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the scholarship you all have so kindly decided to offer me…You all have given me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny and for that I am forever grateful ! My son will one day be able to say that his mother was given a chance despite financial hardship, and this blessing can teach him that if you dream big enough, no obstacle will be big enough.”  -recent 1L Student

Monday Morning Message 10.10.22 Underdogs

“The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.” - Malcolm Gladwell

"My whole career has been one of fighting for the underdog." – Congressman Louis Stokes ‘53

“I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” —Mia Hamm, gold-medal soccer player

Monday Morning Message 10.3.22 First Monday in October. First Friday in November.

“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. But we’ve made it. We’ve made it. All of us.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Standing in the hall of fame…..cause you burn with the brightest flame.” – “Hall of Fame,” The Script

This morning’s message is about the First Monday in October, and the first Friday in November.

Monday Morning Message 9.19.22 King Charles III Connection to our "Famous Law School"

“May I say what a great honor it is to have been invited to bepresent here today for the dedication of this new school of law in the company of such distinguished people as Governor Rhodes, and all sorts of others too numerous to mention. Finding myself in this famous law school today brings to mind those close ties which for over three centuries have linked Britain and the United States in so many different ways. Chief among these ties has been ourreverence of the law.” - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, at the dedication of the new Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Building, October 20, 1977, 1801 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio

TEXT OF COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE OUTSIDE OUR MOOT COURT ROOM

Monday Morning Message 9.12.22 Get stronger in your broken places.

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II in her message to the American people on September 11, 2001

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”  -Ernest Hemingway,  A Farewell to Arms

21 years ago yesterday morning our world changed in an instant. It was one of the saddest, darkest, most horrific days in history.

Monday Morning Message 9.6.22 We Open Front Doors and Let the Future In.

“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” — Steven Spielberg

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou

“I am the first person in my family to graduate from college. So I have not had anyone who could really help me with my law school decision. Your encouragement and insights came just at the right time. I hope to “pay it forward” someday when I am a lawyer by mentoring a future law student!” – Admitted Student

We open front doors and let the future in.

Monday Morning Message 8.29.22 My Favorite Week

“Get ready to embark on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, packed with thrills, chills, and probably a few spills. Being a 1L will challenge you like you’ve never been challenged….. The first year of law school will be one of the hardest years of your life. Law school will profoundly alter the way you think, and view and interact with the world around you. Your 1L experience will change who you are, whether you want it to or not.”  Andrew McClurg, 1L of a Ride, A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School

Monday Morning Message 8.22.22 A Message to our First Year Students

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken…If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever…. We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share….”  - U. S. Senator Mitch McConnell, January 6, 2022

Monday Morning Message 6.6.22 Just One Request Before Your Email Inbox Gets a Summer Break!

“We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear.”– Brené Brown

 We are giving your email inbox a summer break! The Monday Morning Message will resume the week of August 22, 2022, the first week of fall semester classes.

 As I reflect on the continued injustices in our criminal justice system, the disregard for the rule of law, the lack of civility and basic human decency, and the abject failure of our federal and state governments to find effective ways to address senseless gun violence like we have seen in Uvalde and Buffalo, I wonder….

Is our law school doing enough? And, of course, the answer is that we always can and should do more.