WELCOME AND OPENING OF THE 43RD CUSLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

• Date: 01 January 2020
• Author: Petras, Stephen J., Jr.

Speaker: Stephen J. Petras Jr.

DEAN SCHARF: All right. Good morning, everybody, if you will take your seats. We will go ahead and get started. Okay.

Well, hello, everybody. If you don't know me, I am Michael Scharf. I am the Co-dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. We are one of the two partnership schools along with Western Ontario that make up the Canada-US Law Institute, and you are going to meet today several of the people whose time and energy is well spent putting together this conference and the other activities of the center.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to a spring day in Cleveland as we look out the window and see the snow falling here in the beautiful botanical garden. And one of the things I do tell students when I am recruiting from Arizona and California to come to Cleveland, I say, you know, in Cleveland when it is cold, we just cross the street, and we go to Costa Rica.

And that's because the Botanical Garden has a giant Costa Rica biosphere, and...