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General body meeting.

General body meeting.

The Center for Health Law & Policy is presenting a CLE on public health law and infectious diseases. The CLE will begin with a showing of the movie “Contagion.” After the movie, three panelists will comment on the movie and discuss the recent Ebola outbreak. The panel discussion is scheduled from 6:30 to 7:30. The remaining 30 minutes will be reserved for questions from the audience.

Panelists:

Jana Rush, Chief Epidemiologist, Cleveland Public Health Department

Dennis Lansdowne, Partner, Spangenberg Law Firm

Susan Becker, Professor Emeritus, Cleveland Marshall College of Law

Entertainment and Sports Law Association Symposium

$10 Registration Fee
Register at cmlaweslasymposium.eventbrite.com or day of the symposium

Panel 1: Owning and Operating a Sports Venue
Panel 2: From Development to Production, How to Make a Film
sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Film Commission
Panel 3: Protecting and Monetizing the Publicity Rights of Athletes and Entertainers
sponsored by Britton Gallgher

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host a Criminal Justice Forum on “Ferguson, Staten Island and Cleveland: A Legal Discussion about the Use of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement Officers,” Monday, January 26 at 5 p.m. The discussion, co-sponsored by the City Club of Cleveland, American Constitution Society, Norman S. Minor Bar Association, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean’s Diversity Council and the Cleveland-Marshall Black Law Students Association, will explore the legal issues related to the recent use of deadly force by police officers.

The panel, moderated by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise, will be composed of a collection of local attorneys, professors, activists and law enforcement officials Confirmed panelists include: Shakyra Diaz, American Civil Liberties Union, Carole Rendon, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Terry Gilbert, Esq., Friedman & Gilbert, Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Professor Ronnie Dunn, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.

The panel will focus on the legal parameters surrounding the authorized use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, and will discuss the type of circumstances that warrant such use of deadly force. In particular, panelists will focus on the question of if the suspect was armed, and how this affects the law enforcement officer's ability to respond with force. Panelists will also comment on the grand jury process, and discuss issues of police officer potential liability in the wake of the use of deadly force.

The program is free and open to the public, and offers attendees one hour of free continuing legal education credit. Preregistration is not required.

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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law will host legal activist Lawrence Lessig Friday, April 17 at 5 p.m. in the school’s Moot Court Room. Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, will focus the one-hour lecture on “How Money (in politics) Matters.”

The program, co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland, is free and open to the public, and will offer attendees one hour of free continuing legal education credit pending approval. Preregistration is not required.

A lawyer and activist, Lessig is well-known for arguing in favor of sensible intellectual property law, updated for the digital age. He is a founding board member of Creative Commons, an organization that builds better copyright practices through principles established by the open-source software community. For his work, Lessig has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries.

In recent years, Lessig has shifted his primary focus to American politics and in 2011, founded Rootstrikers, an organization dedicated to changing the influence of money in Congress. In his most recent book, Republic, Lost, Lessig concentrates on how far the United States government has spun off course and how citizens can fight to regain control.

Lessig's talk concludes a week of related events including the Cleveland State Law Review's symposium immediately prior to Lessig's address and the Cleveland-Marshall Law Library’s screening of "Pay 2 Play," a political documentary on campaign financing featuring a cast of over 25 legal, political and media experts including Lessig, on Wednesday, April 15 at 5 p.m.

Visiting Scholar - Professor Eric Freyfogle, University of Illinois College of Law - "The Next 250 Years"

Professor Eric Freyfogle, a Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with issues of humans and nature, some focused on legal aspects, others reaching to larger cultural and social issues. His work is broadly interdisciplinary, drawing upon history, philosophy, biological sciences, economics and literature, and is guided by a conservation ethic that seeks better ways for humans to live in nature.

Lecture Synopsis:

America’s long embrace of individual liberty and equality has reached the venerable age of 250, if we date its beginning to the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765. As beacon and rallying cry, our beloved rights-based frame has brought vast gains, culturally and politically. But is it suitable and potent enough to confront the dark forces of our era, to halt the worsening ills of economic injustice, environmental loss, and sagging democracy? Has the time perhaps come for major shift in our nation’s moral and legal trajectory, down a new, long path that honors interdependence and the goods we share?

Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1801 Euclid Ave.) will host “The History and the Future of the Ohio Constitution,” Wednesday, March 4 at 5 p.m. in the school’s Moot Court Room. The lecture, co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland, will be presented by Dean Emeritus Steven Steinglass, senior policy advisor for the bipartisan Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission.

Steinglass, a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, is a leading authority on state constitutional law and the co-author of The Ohio Constitution: A Reference Guide (2004). He spent 31 years on the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall, serving as dean for nine years.

His talk will review the history of constitutional revision in Ohio from 1802 to the present. The discussion will focus on the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission’s current efforts to revise the constitution on a wide range of issues, including congressional redistricting, term limits, privacy, voting, the initiative/referendum, and education.

The program is free and open to the public, and offers attendees one hour of free continuing legal education credit. Preregistration is not required.