Daniel Wodak has been awarded the 2023 Marc Sanders Foundation’s Political Philosophy Prize for his paper, “One Person, One Vote.”
In a comment published in the Journal of Constitutional Law, Sarah Reeves L’23 analyzes how Pennsylvania courts apply the appellate waiver doctrine, arguing that its excessive use constricts litigants’ right to appeal.
Prof. Tobias Wolff writes that the upcoming SCOTUS decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis “threatens to be a blockbuster.”
The American Constitution Society selected Sabrina Minhas L’22 and Jess Zalph L’23 to participate in their prestigious leadership program.
The Regulatory Review recently featured two student pieces concerning the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion rights.
Isabella Hernandez L’24, Co-Chair of If/When/How, a student pro bono project dedicated to lawyering for reproductive justice, reacts to the leaked SCOTUS opinion.
Profs. Roosevelt and Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.
Annie Blackman L’22, Co-Chair of If/When/How, a student pro bono project dedicated to lawyering for reproductive justice, reacts to the leaked SCOTUS opinion.
Referencing gay rights decisions, Prof. Roosevelt cautions, “If there are five justices who endorse this draft, it’s unlikely that they will stop with Roe.”
Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court spoke about implicit and structural bias during the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.
This is the first time that Penn Carey Law has been the sole occupant of the #6 spot, marking the highest ranking the Law School has achieved since U.S. News began ranking law schools in 1987.
Following clerkship positions in the Eleventh and Third Circuits, Cass will clerk for the Supreme Court Justice during the 2024-2025 term.
“[I]mmunity from criminal prosecution for a sitting President would undermine all other forms of accountability …”
Vidyarthi’s paper, co-authored by Rachel Hulvey, a PhD candidate at Penn, was recently published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
Roosevelt maintains that King’s focus on Reconstruction should guide us forward.
In an opinion piece at The Hill, Prof. Roosevelt urges Americans to “remember how we first started on the path of liberty and equality.”
Hoffman specializes in contract law, Klick in law and economics, and Roosevelt in constitutional law and conflict of laws.
Dolma L’24 is the first Tibetan on record to attend the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Rizzo’s recently published pieces span constitutional, environmental, family, and intellectual property law.
Prof. Wolff stated that while the decision is “good,” the opinion doesn’t offer much guidance for the future of the First Amendment in schools.
Ben-Porath calls it “a good day when [the Court] sides with a student’s right to freely express her views, her feelings, and her criticism of the rules of the community of which she forms a part.”
Prof. Wolff pushes back on early characterizations of the Supreme Court decision as a narrow ruling.
Peter Jacobs L’22 draws on his experience as a journalist in exploring freedom of the press issues that have arisen since the George Floyd protests.
Madeline Feldman L’22, GEd’22 joined the ACS as a 1L Representative and later became president of her chapter.
The court’s significant ruling cited “The Downstream Consequences of Pretrial Detention,” co-authored by Paul Heaton, Sandy Mayson, and Megan Stevenson.
The event brought together scholars and leading experts in the fields of law, sociology, and civil rights to engage in a robust conversation about the roots of mass incarceration and the prison abolition movement.
Tiffany Keung L’22 and Apratim Vidyarthi L’22 are winners of the 13th Annual First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition and were also awarded Best Brief.
Prof. Roosevelt shares the historical background of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as well as his analysis of the House Democrats’ use of the provision in an impeachment article against President Trump.
In addition to committing to publishing five issues annually, including Fall and Spring online supplements to the print edition, JCL also sponsors a yearly symposium on a cutting-edge topic of constitutional law and featuring notable constitutional law scholars.
Professor Wolff commissioned a quilt featuring the faces of his students, a unified work of art composed of many discrete and independent parts, like their dispersed but resilient class.
In an amicus brief in Trump v. Vance, Professor of Law Claire Finkelstein argues that Article II of the Constitution does not provide the president with absolute immunity.
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Penn Law’s Sophia Lee comments on SCOTUS ruling that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining.
On September 20, a panel of constitutional law professors convened at Penn Law to discuss four cases from the Supreme Court of the United States’ upcoming term.
Kermit Roosevelt, a Professor of Law at Penn Law and scholar of the Constitution, says that meeting between the Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. could possibly have fun afoul of campaign finance laws.
“The question,” Prof. Kermit Roosevelt explains, “is whether our constitutional system—designed by people who didn’t foresee the party system—can continue to function in an era of severe political polarization.”
On February 10, the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Journal of Constitutional Law presented its annual symposium. This year’s event was titled “Hate Crime vs. Hate Speech: Exploring the First Amendment,” and the keynote address was delivered by Malcolm Jenkins, a Philadelphia Eagles player as well as a philanthropist and activist.
On January 31, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Penn Law faculty members respond to Judge Gorsuch’s nomination.
In an opinion piece by Dorothy Roberts and Jeffrey Vagle, the authors argue that President-Elect Trump’s law and order platform is culturally-coded as well as anti-democratic.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, Penn Law faculty members weigh in on the potential effects of a Trump presidency on issues ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court to immigration to technology policy.
A federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit by an activist who was arrested while filming protests in 2011. Now the filmmaker and her legal team will have a chance to investigate the city’s training policies regarding the First Amendment and handling the media.
In a new article titled “Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family,” Penn Law professor Serena Mayeri explores the history of marital supremacy — the legal privileging of marriage — by tracing the outcomes of “illegitimacy” cases through the 1960s and 1970s.
At an event titled “Challenging Muslim Profiling in Post 9/11 Era,” Baher Azmy, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a constitutional law professor at Seton Hall University, addressed the unconstitutionality of religious profiling that has been “embraced” in the post-9/11 era.
A new article co-authored by Penn Law Professor and Dean-designate Theodore Ruger, Jennifer Prah Ruger of Penn, and George Annas of Boston University finds that while the U.S. Constitution does not expressly guarantee a right to health care, in the past 50 years Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have incrementally crafted an array of health care rights, though the expansion of these rights has properly resulted from legislative and government rulemaking, not judicial fiat.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is launching a new campaign to reach out to documentary filmmakers.
Hadley Arkes, founder and director of the James Wilson Institute, addressed the Federalist Society Symposium, “The New Leviathan: Re-examining the Expansion of Federal Power.”
Theodore Ruger has been named dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, effective July 1.
Professor Emeritus Frank Goodman discusses about his long and varied career during which he drafted Groucho Marx’s will, argued cases in the Warren Court, and was tear-gassed in Berkeley.
Ilana Eisenstein L’04 is one of a small group of attorneys who conduct government litigation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as part of the Office of the Solicitor General.
New faculty member Mitchell Berman talks about constitutional interpretation, how the NFL’s instant replay system illustrates important tenants of legal theory, and his impressions of Penn Law and Philadelphia.
What does the Constitution mean to you? The Penn Law community chimed in on Constitution Day with #WeThePPL videos!
Graduates and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School have played an instrumental role in the landmark federal court ruling declaring Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Important court decisions, revelations about NSA spying, and high-profile trials were among the legal events that captured headlines in 2013. Here, Penn Law faculty to weigh in on the year’s top legal developments.
During the question and answer session, Kennedy was asked about changing same-sex marriage laws. As part of his response, Kennedy replied, “The nature of injustice is that you can’t see it in your own time.”
In October Penn Law will formally launch the innovative Visiting Jurist Program, designed to promote closer ties between eminent members of the judiciary and law students. The inaugural Penn Law Visiting Jurist will be Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Appropriately designed health insurance exchanges could save consumers and taxpayers $9 billion annually under Obamacare, according to new research by Penn Law professor Tom Baker.
Graduates and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School played an instrumental role in a lawsuit filed today in federal District Court in Harrisburg seeking to overturn Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage.
The Court’s majority is surely correct that the forms, and extent, of outright electoral discrimination based on race have changed and lessened in the past half century, but the phenomenon persists
Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court this week determined issues ranging from voting rights and affirmative action to same-sex marriage. What follows are responses to the Supreme Court debate by Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law.
Supreme Court equality decisions tend to move gradually towards recognizing the moral consensus of the American people.
By shifting the case back to the lower courts, the Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas has encouraged the constitutional debate on affirmative action to continue among a broader set of institutions around the country.
For the 12th consecutive year, a Penn Law student has been named a recipient of the Burton Distinguished Legal Writing Award.
Penn Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic three-for-three with wins this term before nation’s highest court.
Penn Law faculty members who specialize in constitutional law respond to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on the volatile issue of same-sex marriage.
Whether the issue is the legality of drone strikes, impending Supreme Court decisions about affirmative action and same-sex marriage, the anniversary of the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainright, the impact of documentary filmmaking on the pursuit of justice, or key regulatory decisions by administrative agencies, here developments to watch for in the year ahead.
Looking forward to the first Monday in October, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term begins, an expert panel at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on Sept. 20 reviewed highlights from the Court’s last term and previewed the most significant cases on its current docket.
On Monday, September 17, as part of Constitution Day, Penn Law will host an exhibit of select original documents of James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, framer of the Constitution and member of the first U.S. Supreme Court, along with other historical documents written or signed by President George Washington and Patrick Henry.
Professor Tobias B. Wolffis interviewed about his role in finalizing the Democratic party’s platform ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina in September.
In the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act decision, we asked Constitutional and health law and policy experts at the University of Pennsylvania Law School to share their insights about what the decision portends for the scope of federal power to meet economic and social problems and the future of the nation’s health care system.
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Professor of History, has been appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians (OAH).