Monday Morning Message 10.14.24 A Big Week for Cleveland and CSU Law
“This city, the people here, they’re all about show and prove. Cleveland isn’t a place where you can get away with just talking about how great you are…. You have to show people what you’re about. There’s definitely a vibe of hospitality, warmth, and kindness in Cleveland… But mixed in with all of that, there is an unmistakable grit.” - Steven Kwan, Cleveland Guardians Left Fielder
'Kemba' Screening and Panel: All Rise Film Festival
All Rise Film Festival Event
A sheltered college student falls in love, only to discover her boyfriend is a drug kingpin, thrusting her into the government’s “war on drugs.” Based on the true story of Kemba Smith, “Kemba” follows her harrowing journey as she is manipulated by her charming but abusive boyfriend Khalif, who drags her into his dangerous criminal world. Though she never handled drugs, Kemba faces severe consequences for her association with Khalif’s crimes. As her life unravels, her parents, an NAACP attorney, and a powerful coalition of Black civic organizations, celebrities, and lawmakers come together to fight for her freedom.
Admissions Open House
Join our Office of Admissions and hear from our faculty and students to learn more about CSU|LAW.
Monday Morning Message 10.7.24 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 9.30.24 Civil Discourse and Freedom of Speech
“Although there is a First Amendment right to speak and to protest, this is subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions….The First Amendment does not protect speech to silence others or to disrupt.” - Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley School of Law
“Book bans …. shut down conversations about important issues….. Young people have a right to the resources and stories that help them mature, learn and understand their world in all its diversity.” – Ashley Hope Perez, Author, Out of Darkness
'Show Her the Money' Film Screening and Panel
CSULAW is pleased to partner with The CSU Weston Ideation Lab to present this special event, part of All Rise: A Festival of Film & Law
In a story that’s never been told, Show Her The Money addresses how women receive less than 2% of venture capital funding. Featuring rock-star female investors who invest in diverse women entrepreneurs with innovations that will change the world, Show Her The Money reminds us that money is power and women need it to achieve true equality.
Criminal Justice Forum’s 25th Anniversary: No Crime Wrongful Convictions: The ‘New’ Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Identity
Currently, 75% of exonerated women were wrongly convicted of a crime that never occurred. Most of these women were caretakers of a loved one who died – a husband who died in his sleep, a loved one who died by suicide, a child who fatally succumbed to a health condition. Stigma and bias, bolstered by junk science, led prosecutors to wrongly believe that these women committed crimes even when there was no criminal act. Now, prosecutors mobilize this same tragic combination of stigma, bias, and junk science to charge and convict pregnant people and new mothers for fetal assault or even murder.
Monday Morning Message 9.23.24 Let Freedom Read
“…..libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.”
— President John F. Kennedy
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”― President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cleveland State Law Review Symposium: Learning and Living Law and Justice
Special Event! This year's Cleveland State Law Review Symposium gives personal voices to the CSU|LAW mission, Learn Law Live Justice through an exchange of experiences at the lifelong intersection of law and justice.