We are very fortunate to have outstanding full-time, adjunct, and emeritus faculty, leaders-in-residence, and staff. We are pleased to share regular updates on their excellent scholarship, presentations, teaching, and service.
Faculty and Staff
Prof. Lorenzo Luisetto presented his paper, “Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompete Agreements in France,” at the Collective Bargaining Special Issue Conference hosted by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. The conference brought together industrial relations scholars from around the world, including keynote speakers Christian Dustmann and David Card (2021 Nobel Prize winner).
In his paper, Prof. Luisetto examines how the regulation of noncompete agreements for employees through collective agreements affects firm-level markdowns in the French manufacturing sector. A key takeaway is that, by enhancing compliance or imposing additional requirements, collective bargaining serves as an effective tool to regulate the use of noncompete agreements in France.
Prof. Abigail Moncrieff is one of the commentators for the University of Houston Law Review’s 30th Annual Frankel Lecture on October 10. She will comment on Samuel R. Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law and Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the University of Michigan, keynote lecture "COVID and the Great Retrenchment," exploring how federal programs expanded during the pandemic and the legal, policy, and social consequences of their subsequent rollback.
Prof. Moncrieff also participated in a discussion with William & Mary Law Prof. Jonathan Adler on “SCOTUS Response to the Trump Administration: A Matter of Principle or Appeasement?” co-sponsored by the CSU Law Federalist Society and American Constitution Society.
Prof. Karin Mika presented at the Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, which took place in Irvine, California on September 5th and 6th at UC Irvine. The title of the presentation was, "Whose Speech Matters? Guiding Students Beyond the Text in School First Amendment Law." The presentation discussed incorporating First Amendment curriculum in the first year of law school and how school First Amendment law is useful in demonstrating to students that there are often two legitimate sides to very contentious legal issues that students have strong feelings about. The discussion also touched on Ohio SB1 and the effect the statute has on the discussion of contentious issues in the classroom.
Laura Ray, Outreach & Instructional Services Librarian, has been appointed a member of the 2025-2026 Teaching + Training Content Area Team of the Annual Meeting Program Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). One of six Content Area Teams that develop "must-have" program topics for the AALL Annual Meeting Call for Proposals, the Teaching + Training Team reviews and ranks program proposals that address "developing, delivering, and assessing learning opportunities that prepare students, lawyers, and others for workplace excellence."
Laura has also been appointed a member of the 2025-2026 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee of the Legal Innovation & Technology Special Interest Section (LIT-SIS) of the AALL. The Committee reviews and advises LIT-SIS members on their program proposals and program proposals with other AALL groups, as well as coordinates LIT-SIS programs for the AALL Annual Meeting.
Laura has also been re-appointed the 2025-2026 Chair of the Education Committee of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB-SIS) of the AALL. The Committee solicits, reviews, and ranks program proposals for the AALL Annual Meeting and other workshops, roundtables, and webinars. Laura has chaired the LHRB-SIS Education Committee since 2003.
Laura has also been re-appointed the 2025-2026 Chair of the Education Committee of the Baseball Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries. The Committee coordinates Caucus educational activities, including submitting proposals for the AALL Annual Meeting.
Prof. John Plecnik was interviewed by Newsweek for an article on the proposals for property tax reform made by Governor DeWine's working group.
Co-Interim Dean Brian Ray participated in the Sedona Conference Working Group 13 AI and the Law session in Reston Virginia in September. This was the second meeting of Working Group 13, Dean Ray recommended that the group consider establishing a brainstorming group to identify how law firms and other legal employers are training new lawyers to use generative AI tools and ways that law schools can effectively prepare their students to responsibly use these tools in practice.
Prof. Heidi Gorovitz Robertson was invited to participate in the Fifth Annual Environmental, Natural Resources, and Land Use Law Scholars Workshop, hosted by Loyola University-Chicago School of Law. Nine scholars are invited each year to engage in a multi-day workshop, writing retreat, and works-in-progress symposium. But for transportation, all expenses are paid by the host institution. Robertson will be working on a paper about the way Ohio (and perhaps other) agencies value stakeholder comments in their decision-making processes — in particular, she will be thinking about how agencies should weigh the volume of comments against their value.
Prof. Robertson has published an article titled, Who owns a space rock that landed in a privately owned Swedish forest? in the Real Estate Law Journal, a Thompson Reuters peer-reviewed publication. The article is available at 54 Real Est. L.J. 47 (Summer 2025).
Professor 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, Cleveland State University.
Prof. Milena Sterio's article, Beyond Policy: Overcoming Challenges in Prosecuting Gender Persecution at the International Criminal Court (co-authored with Professor Yvonne Dutton, Indiana University McKinney School of Law), was published by the Florida International University Law Review in its Spring 2025 issue.
Prof. Sterio's article, Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Need to Update International Humanitarian Law was published in Volume 57 (Spring 2025) of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.
Prof. Sterio presented on the topic of "The Role of Courts in Transitions Toward Peace and Security" at the European Society of International Law Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany, on September 12.
Prof. Sterio participated in a Workshop on the topic of "Gender Parity at the International Court of Justice" on September 20. The Workshop gathered experts in the field of gender justice and feminist approaches to international law to discuss the existing gender gap on the bench of the International Court of Justice (only six women have served as judges since 1945). Workshop participants also discussed strategies toward promoting a more gender-diverse slate of judicial candidates for the ICJ.
Prof. Sterio served as peer reviewer for the International Journal of Transitional Justice, a peer-reviewed international journal published by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Sterio co-organized and participated in the American Society of International Law’s Midyear Meeting, which took place in Cleveland from September 25 to 27. Prof. Sterio co-chaired the Midyear Meeting and helped organize the entire conference, which consisted of the Practitioners’ Forum, held at Jones Day, and the Research Forum, held at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
During the Practitioners’ Forum, on September 25, Prof. Sterio moderated a panel on the topic of “Algorithms on Trial: Navigating the Nine-Figure Litigation Minefield of Generative AI.” During the Research Forum on September 26, Prof. Sterio presented her paper on the topic of “The Role of International, Regional, and Domestic Courts in Transitions Toward Peace and Security.” On September 27, she also moderated a panel on the topic of “Accountability under International Legal Frameworks.”
Cory Scott, the newly appointed Executive Director of the Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection Center, gave the Day 2 Keynote at Case Western Reserve University’s workshop on “Responsible AI-enabled Digital Service Ecosystem” on September 12. He pulled from his security and privacy leadership experience at LinkedIn and Google to discuss building trustworthy products for consumers. He claimed that building truly trustworthy products goes beyond security features, privacy preservation, marketing claims, or regulatory compliance. Instead, it is a careful mixture of technology, practices, and positioning. Diving into the privacy paradox – where users claim concern about privacy but do little to protect their data – he talked about the challenges of clearly outlining privacy risks to users without diminishing enthusiasm for the benefits of the products they are using. He also discussed how consumers expect that security and privacy will be “built into” products and that privacy and security options rarely get significant traction away from defaults. He encouraged attendees to think about the wide range of data elements collected by products and services, such as volunteered, observed, and inferred data, and what challenges are created by third and fourth party exposure by product owners.
Cory also presented at the CyberOhio webinar panel on September 24 on “How to Use NIST CSF to Build a Cyber Program”. Well-aligned with his interests in researching the impact of recent state cybersecurity legislation and its impact on Ohio political subdivisions, he advised over 600 representatives from local government entities on how to meet the new requirements regarding cybersecurity programs.
Emeriti Faculty
Civitas Institute has published Prof. Emeritus David Forte’s review of Robert George's latest book, Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth.
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