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Join a CWRU STUDENT PANEL for a program featuring
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Avidan Cover, J.D.
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Raymond Ku, J.D.
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The Constitution Day program will will provoke a lively exchange of ideas. Student panelists will lead the exchange. Everyone welcomes the two speakers, Avidan Cover and Raymond Ku.
Avidan Cover is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Cover currently teaches International Law; International Human Rights Law; and a Race, Law and Society seminar. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News and Court TV.
Cover was a Fulbright Scholar from 2018 to 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya where he taught international criminal law and legal theory at Strathmore Law School and researched refugee and security issues. Prior to his appointment at Case Western Reserve University, Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey.
Raymond Ku is the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He has also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Co-Director of Case’s Center for Law, Technology and the Art. He received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and his A.B. with Honors from Brown University where he was the recipient of the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for the best political science thesis discussing the principles of free government. Professor Ku clerked for the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
An internationally recognized scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His areas of expertise include Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, Privacy and Copyright. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Georgetown, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others, and he is the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law.
Program planned by the 2025 CWRU Society for Constitutional Policy:
Christopher Batarseh (vice president),
Mariana Parilli-Castillo (risk manager), Ella Cimperman (treasurer)
Catherine Feng (president), Adiel Vazquez Torres (secretary)
Faculty Advisors: William Doll, Andrew Lucker,
Laura Tartakoff, and Joe White
Sponsored by the Office of the President,
Office of Government and Community Relations,
Department of Political Science,
Center for Policy Studies, and School of Law
A reception will follow at the Law School