The Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law is a legal journal produced by student editors at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Case Western Reserve University Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law is the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It opened in 1892, making it one of the oldest law schools in the country. It was one of the first schools accredited by the American Bar Association and was...

 in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

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Three issues are published annually by student editors

Editors

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. The journal includes symposia-based, scholarly articles and transcripts of speeches that address topics of international legal significance.

In collaboration with the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, JIL sponsors legal symposia on broad topics, drawing noteworthy experts from around the world to Cleveland, Ohio. Past events focused on subjects such as the lessons of the trial of Saddam Hussein

Trial of Saddam Hussein

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, bioterrorism

Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form. For the use of this method in warfare, see biological warfare.-Definition:According to the...

, and torture

Torture

Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...

 and the War on Terror

War on Terrorism

The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...

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