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LOUIS
S. RULLI Practice Professor of Law
moderated two panel discussions at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute
and Penn Law School’s Family Law 2000 Symposium held in November,
and delivered historical remarks on the subject of New Voices: Listening
to Children. Professor Rulli presented a continuing legal education
lecture, “Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases,” at Federal
Court in December 2000. He serves as counsel to the Philadelphia Bar
Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention. In addition,
Professor Rulli was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Philadelphia’s primary federally funded
legal services program providing free legal assistance to the poor.
Finally, he was made a member of the Subcommittee on Gender Bias,
of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Committee on Racial and Gender
Bias in the Justice System, examining issues relating to access to
justice in family court. |
Developing Employment
Discrimination Litigation Under the Americans With Disabilities Act from
the Perspective of the Poor: Can the Promise of Title I be Fulfilled for
Low-Income Workers in the Next Decade? (Symposium): The Americans with Disabilities
Act - Past, Present and Future: Developing Law Over a Decade, 9 Temple
Political and Civil Rights Law Review 345 (2000)
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KIM
LANE SCHEPPELE Professor of Law and Sociology
presented “Counter-Constitutions” at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association in August in August and “Dependence on Standing
Body of State: One Fatal Flaw in Bush v. Gore” at the American Political
Science Association meeting in September. In July, Professor Scheppele
co-chaired the program committee for the joint meeting of the Law
and Society Association and the Research Committee on the Sociology
of Law, held at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary where
she also presented a paper called “The Quarantined Past.” The Budapest
program was the largest in the history of these meetings, with more
than 1,000 papers presented and about 1,500 people in attendance.
The focus of the conference was “Law in Action” and featured the work
of scholars working at the intersection of law and the social sciences
from around the world with a particular focus on the role of law in
democratic transitions. As the recipient of a grant from the National
Science Foundation, after receiving permission to undertake a study
of petitions from ordinary citizens to the Russian Constitutional
Court, Scheppele inaugurated a research project at the Court, where
she will conduct research in Spring 2002. Her study will focus on
what happens to unexamined petitions and how the court answers them
in unofficial ways, creating what she calls a body of “subdoctrinal
constitutional law.” She gave a talk called “Requiem for the Rule
of Law: The 2000 Election and the Failure of American Courts” at the
Harvard Law School Workshop on Constitutional Law and Constitutional
Theory in February. |
The Constitutional
Basis of Hungarian Conservatism, 9(4) East European Constitutional Review
51 (Forthcoming 2001)
When the
Law Doesn’t Count: Election 2000 and the Rule of Law, 149 University
of Pennsylvania Law Review 1363 (2001)
The Constitutional
Law of Politics in America, Élet és Íródalóm (Life and Literature),
24 November 2000 (Budapest)
Limitations
on Fundamental Rights: Comparing Hungarian and American Constitutional
Jurisprudence, in A Megtalált Alkotmány? A Magyar Alapjogi Bíráskosás
Elsô Kilence Eve (The Constitution Found? The First Nine Years of Hungarian
Constitutional Review on Fundamental Rights), ed. Gábor Halmai (Budapest:
INDOK, 2000)
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