International Public Interest Work

Thirteen JD students will work abroad this summer on projects related to human rights, rule of law, and public interest.

Abigail Bar-Lev L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Civil Association for Equality and Justice, Argentina
Shikha Bhattacharjee L'13
(Toll Public Interest Scholar/ISHRF Fellow) Swayam Women's Rights Organization, India
Rebecca Kate Clough L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Mekong Region Law Center, Thailand
Kate Flannery L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) International Refugee Rights Initiative, Uganda
Nikki Herst-Cook L'13
(Toll Public Interest Scholar/ISHRF Fellow) Unity Dow and Associates, Botswana
Evie Hightower L'13
(EJF Fellow) Office of Richard Karegyesa, Chief Prosecutions for ICTR, Tanzania
McAllister Jimbo L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Dui Hua Foundation, Hong Kong
Leila Anne John L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Mekong Region Law Center, Thailand
Natalie Kone L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, India
Irene Lu L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda- Chambers Section, Tanzania
Mark Francis Murphy L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa
Elisa Solomon L'13
(ISHRF Fellow) Lawyers Collective, India
Megan Tweed L'13
(ISHRF Mead Fellow) World Trade Organization, Switzerland (pending)

Summer Work in Overseas Firms

Sixteen Penn Law students will hold summer positions at overseas law firms through either the Penn Law International Internship Program (PLIIP) or independently identified opportunities.

Andreas Apostolides L'12
(PLIIP Intern) Anderson Mori, Japan
Ryan Bosch L'13
(Summer Associate) Laude Esquier Champe, Paris
Jonathan Boyer-Dry L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Celfin Capital, Chile
Meredith Craven L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Cocuzza & Associati, Italy
Younghee Chung L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Kim & Chang, Korea
Timothy Fisher L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Bermeo & Bermeo, Ecuador
Joseph Friedman, L'12
(Summer Associate) Freshfields, England
Henry Jin L'13
(Summer Associate) Lee & Ko Law Firm, Korea
Katherine Long L'13
(Summer Associate) White and Case, Hong Kong
Sofia Papakostas L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Barun Law, Korea
Gustavo Silva-Cano L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Brigard & Urrutia Abogados, Colombia
Tyler Stypinski L'12
(Summer Associate) Linklaters, England
Jessica Sun L'12
(Summer Associate) Dechert, England
David Udekwu L'12
(PLIIP Intern) Aluko and Oyebode, Nigeria
James Wiley L'13
(PLIIP Intern) Richards Cardinal, Argentina
Tedmond Wong L'13
(Summer Associate) Herbert Smith, England

Other International Work

In addition to public interest positions and private law firms, several students will work in courts, governmental bureaus, or other legal bodies abroad.

Andreas Apostolides L'12
(PLIIP Intern) Beijing Arbitration Commission, China
David Braun L'12
(Clerkship) Israeli Supreme Court, Israel
Ryan Bosch L'13
(Clerkship) High Court of Botswana, Botswana
Hayley Curry L'12
(Government) U.S. State Department, Germany

Lauder Institute Summer Immersion

Five Penn Law students will begin their Lauder joint degree program this summer, completing coursework in area studies and management strategy and immersion language programs around the globe in June/July.

Christen Farr L'13
Arabic track (Language Immersion in Rabat and Dubai)
Lindsey Laveaux  L'13
French track (Language Immersion in Paris and Rabat)
Kate Long L'13
Chinese track (Language Immersion in Beijing and Shanghai)
Donald Canavaggio L'13
Portuguese track (Language Immersion in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo)
Kevin Hess L'13
Spanish track (Language Immersion in Bogota and Madrid)

Note to All Students and Faculty Traveling Overseas this Summer

Before departing, please remember to register your travel in the Penn Global Activities Registry. This process only takes a few minutes, and will automatically notify International SOS (the organization that provides Penn students with international medical, security, and travel assistance) of your travel plans.

Congratulations to Penn Law FLAS Recipients

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide funding for summer and academic year training in foreign languages and area studies.

Judd Abramson L'12
Japanese language study (Summer)
Alexander Coffin L'12
Japanese language study (Academic Year)
Christen Farr L'13
Arabic language study (Academic Year)
Kate Norland L'12
Arabic language study (Academic Year)
Shikha Bhattacharjee L'13
Bengali language study (Academic Year)

Recent Penn Law Events

Professor Claire Finkelstein, as co-director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, hosted a high level interdisciplinary conference examining the legal, moral and philosophical challenges raised by using targeted killings to fight the war on terror. The conference brought together leading academics, military specialists and policy makers to examine controversial issues related to targeted killings, such as whether targeted killings are morally permissible, whether they can be justified under the laws of war or require a justification external to the nature of hostilities, and whether the appropriate framework for considering targeted killings should be one drawn from the law and morality of war or from a domestic law-enforcement model instead. It also probed for comparative insights by overlaying criminal law theories on laws of war and international law to examine how the philosophical debates around self-defense ought to inform our thinking on targeted killing in an age of advanced technology.  A number of the conference papers will be published in an edited volume.

Penn Law Faculty/Staff Summer Travel

Matthew Parker and Nancy Rasmussen will travel to Hamburg, Germany in June to participate in the 2011 conference of the Penn Law European Society (PLES).

Anita L Allen will be attending the conference "Beyond the Cartoon Crisis: Shouting FIRE! on the Global Stage" sponsored by the Centre for Advanced Security Theory at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27-29 2011.

Stephen Burbank, a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, will attend meetings of the Board in Berlin in mid-May. He will travel from Berlin to Genoa to give a lecture on the theory and practice of pleading, a visit sponsored by the University of Genoa and the Genoa Bar Association.

In July, Burbank will attend the meetings of the XIVth World Congress of the International Association of Procedural Law where he will present a paper on 'Private Enforcment of Statutory and Administrative Law' that he co-authored with political scientists Herbert Kritzer and Sean Farhang.

In late August, Burbank, who coordinates the Penn Fellows Program at the Salzburg Seminars, will participate in a session on the Rule of Law and Economic Development. Associate Dean Amy Gadsden and alumnus Heath Tarbert will accompany Burbank to the Salzburg Seminar.

Howard F. Chang will present a paper at the annual meetings of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in June and of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists at the University of Rome in July.

Jacques deLisle has several upcoming visits planned to China. In April, he joined Deputy Dean Eric Feldman to represent Penn Law at the 100th anniversary conference at Tsinghua University Law School.

During May and June, deLisle will travel to Korea as part of a delegation that includes Penn President Amy Gutmann. He will deliver a speech at Seoul National University on 'Understanding Legal and Political change in China' and attend several other related events.

In Taiwan during June, deLisle will chair a panel at the International Law Association Conference in Taipei and participate in an alumni event. He will then travel to Hong Kong to participate in the HKU Research Grants Council and deliver a paper on Property Rights at a conference co-sponsored by University of Chicago-Renmin University Law School.

Michael Knoll will spend early May in Barcelona teaching a week-long summer seminar on International Business Transactions, as part of ESADE's program in International Business Law.

Later in the summer, Knoll will spend the month of August at The University of New South Wales in Australia, where he has been awarded the John Raneri Research Fellowship by the Australian School of Taxation (Atax) to conduct research on international tax discrimination.

Stephen Perry will be teach an intensive course at Tel Aviv University during the month of May on "Political Authority and Political Obligation." On May 26-29, Perry will be present his paper "Political Authority and Political Obligation" to a Workshop on "Authority, Coercion and Paternalism" at the University of Graz, Austria.

In March, David Skeel taught a course on Law and Literature at the University of Roma Tre. While in Italy, he visited the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan to discuss his book, "The New Financial Deal."

Christopher Yoo taught Antitrust and Law and Economics at Goethe University's House of Finance in Frankfurt, Germany, the last week in April.

During the last two weeks of July, Yoo will teach "Internet Law and Policy" at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.