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Tel: 215.746.7824
Fax: 215.573.2025
Office Room: Tanenbaum 335
Email: ktani@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- American Legal History
- Social Welfare Law and Policy
Bio
Karen Tani joins Penn Law as a George Sharswood Fellow for the upcoming academic year. The Sharswood Fellowship, generously supported by the Penn Law Review, is awarded to scholars who plan to enter legal academia. Each year Penn Law awards two fellowships that each fund two years of research, writing, and teaching.
Tani’s primary research and teaching interest is twentieth-century legal history, with a focus on social welfare programs, welfare rights, and the rise of the administrative state. Currently she is working on her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Securing a Right to Welfare: Public Assistance Administration and the Rule of Law, 1938-1960." She recently recieved a Dean's Scholar award from the School of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her academic performance and intellectual promise.
Tani attended Penn Law through Penn’s joint degree program in American Legal History, and after graduating, clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She currently serves as the graduate student representative on the board of the American Society for Legal History.
Representative Publications
βFlemming v. Nestor: Anticommunism, the Welfare State, and the Making of βNew Property,ββ 26 L. & Hist. Rev. 379 (2008).
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Current & Recent Research
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- J.D. - University of Pennsylvania - '07
- M.A. (history) - University of Pennsylvania - '07
- B.A. - Dartmouth - '02
Courses Taught
- Social Welfare and American Law (Spring 2009)
Research Areas
- Twentieth-century American Legal & Constitutional History
- History & Development of the American Welfare State
- Administrative Law
- Poverty Law
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