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Tel: 215.898.7447
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: skreimer@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Civil Rights Law
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Litigation
Bio
Seth Kreimer’s first article, Allocational Sanctions: The Problem of Negative Rights in a Positive State, set the terms for a generation of discussion of unconstitutional government manipulation of public benefits.
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Seth Kreimer’s first article, Allocational Sanctions: The Problem of Negative Rights in a Positive State, set the terms for a generation of discussion of unconstitutional government manipulation of public benefits. His subsequent work has shaped analysis of governmental control of private information, abortion regulation, assisted suicide, and gay marriage. He has explored the implications of DNA testing in criminal justice, free speech on the Internet, and the dangers of abuse in the “war on terror.”
Kreimer has represented plaintiffs in a wide array of litigation. He served as co-counsel in Ferguson v. City of Charleston (U.S. Supreme Court 2001), establishing the right of obstetrical patients to refuse non-consensual drug testing; In Re R.B.F. (Pa. Supreme Court 2002), securing the right of gay and lesbian parents to establish families by second parent adoption; Nixon v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pa. Supreme Court 2003), successfully challenging the constitutionality of lifetime disqualification of sex-offenders from employment; and Buck v. Stankovic (M. D. Pa. 2007), enjoining denial of a marriage license to a citizen who wished to marry an undocumented non-citizen.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law (2004- ); Associate Dean and Professor of Law (2002-04); Professor of Law (1992-2002); Associate Professor of Law (1985-92); Assistant Professor of Law (1981-85)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Arlin M. Adams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1977-78)
Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia Pa.- Associate (1978-81)
Chair, Legal Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, Philadelphia Chapter (2004- )
Representative Publications
The Freedom of Information Act and the Ecology of Transparency, 10 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1011 (2008).
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Rays of Sunlight in a Shadow "War": Subconstitutional Structures of Transparency and Antiterrorist Abuses, 11 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1141 (2007).
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Rejecting “Uncontrolled Authority Over the Body”: The Decencies of Civilized Conduct , the Past and the Future of Unenumerated Rights, 9 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 423 (2007).
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Censorship by Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries and the Problem of the Weakest Link, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 11 (2006).
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Torture Lite, Full-Bodied Torture, and the Insulation of Legal Conscience, 1 J. NATIONAL SECURITY L. & POL'Y 187 (2005).
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Truth Machines and Consequences: The Light and Dark Sides of 'Accuracy' in Criminal Justice, 60 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 655 (2005).
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Watching the Watchers: Surveillance, Transparency, and Political Freedom in the War on Terror, 7 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 133 (2004).
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THE PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION: A TREATISE ON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES (George T. Bisel Company, Inc. 2004) (co-author).
Too Close to the Rack and the Screw: Constitutional Constraints on Torture in the War on Terror, 6 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 278 (2003).
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Constitutional Principles and Collateral Damage, 6 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 327 (2003).
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Responding to Terrorism, University of Pennsylvania Symposium Presentation
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Lines in the Sand: The Importance of Borders in American Federalism, 150 U. PA. L. REV. 973 (2002).
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Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with David Rudovsky) (2002).
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The Pennsylvania Constitution's Protection of Free Expression, 5 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 12 (2002).
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Federalism and Freedom 574 ANNALS AM. ACAD. POL. SOC. SCI. 66 (2001).
Technologies of Protest: Insurgent Social Movements and the First Amendment in the Era of the Internet, 150 U. PA. L. REV. 119 (2001).
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The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey, 1998 SUP. CT. REV. 71 (with Matthew Adler).
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Invidious Comparisons: Some Cautionary Remarks on the Process of Constitutional Borrowing, 1 U. PA. J. CON. LAW 640 (1999).
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The Second Time as Tragedy: The Assisted Suicide Cases and the Heritage of Roe v. Wade, 24 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 863 (1997).
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